“The Prague School and Czech structuralism had a considerable impact on the development of semiotic studies and theater studies at large in the 1960s and ’70s. But this has been quickly forgotten and with the rise of poststructuralism and deconstruction in the ’80s and ’90s, they were not only neglected, but also unjustly disregarded. . . . This is why the Theatre Theory Reader is a very welcome book which comes at the right moment, when postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postdramatic theatre seem to have lost their momentum, as if the requirements of today’s quest for a new way of living and of making business had become so strong that we must go back to the basics. Structuralism and a critique of ideology are now back, at least as a sign to not give up thinking and theorizing in a world which has become self-centered and mad. The afterword by Pavel Drábek, Martin Bernátek, Andrea Jochmanová and Eva Šlaisová is a sort of book within the book, as it neatly puts in perspective all the important names and theories of the Prague School. It does this in a very user-friendly manner, where complex theories are summarized in a clear, yet precise, introduction. This makes the reading of the different chapters easier and immediately connected to our contemporary way of thinking.”