... additionally summarize critiques of Rau’s practice from other thinkers and artists and Rau’s response to these critiques. Milo Rau s Lam Gods, ntgent Schouwburg, Ghent, Belgium, 2018. Photo: Michiel Devijver Peter M. Boenisch and Lise Sofie Houe Mil o Rau s Wor k as Artistic Director of NTGent Toward an Art...

...Milo Rau ntgent, 2018. Photo: Michiel Devijver Milo Rau Ghent Manifesto The Ghent Manifesto was read during a livestreamed conference at ntgent on May 1, 2018, by the children from the second staging of Five Easy Pieces and simultaneously published on the theater s website. Every institution has...

... places the pieces into four distinct categories—reenactment, recollection, reactment, and reclassification—each of which allows for a kind of questioning of and engagement with history and the present. Milo Rau s The New Gospel, ntgent, Matera, Italy, 2019. Film still: Thomas Eirich-­Schneider Lily...

... of their comfort zone, forgetting about their acting skills and previ- 76 a tale of truth ously employed strategies. As mentioned, both nonprofessional and professional actors Milo Rau s Lam bring into the production stories and anecdotes from their own lives as building blocks Gods, ntgent to compose their own...

...Milo Rau; Lily Climenhaga ntgent, 2020. Photo: Michiel Devijver. Courtesy of ntgent Milo Rau Translated by Lily Climenhaga What Is Unst? What Is Unst was first published on February 20, 2009, as an article in the Swiss daily Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung, where Rau had also worked as a foreign...

... of his stage work to date. We are grateful to Kaatje De Geest, Carmen Hornbostel, and the staff at ntgent and iipm for their assistance with this project, and to guest coeditors Lily Climenhaga and Piet Defraeye for their vision and guidance. Note 1. Milo Rau, Globaler Realismus (Global Realism...