appears in this book. The use of the extract eliminated the neces-
sity of a lengthy presentation of the System to the uninitiated and
uninformed and spared those with a grasp of it an unnecessary
repetition of what they already understand. I would like to thank
Ed Ellis of Ed Ellis Photography for the rights to reproduce photo-
graphs from Todd Waite's production of La Turista by Sam Shepard
and to Russ Hewitt for permission to reprint photographs from
John Terfloth's production of Brecht The Threepenny Opera and
Sherry Welles' production of Sam Shepard Buried Child. Finally,
I want to express my appreciation to the staff of University of
Alberta Archives and to Bryan Corbett, Chief Archivist, for
granting permission to publish photographs from the Studio Thea-
tre Collection.

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