Since the beginning of the 21st century, theatre collectives have been making a massive comeback on European stages. By taking up certain central concepts and rejecting others, today’s collectives are inscribing themselves in the historical legacy of the political theatre of the 1960s/70s. For their part, the collectives of the 1960/70s were linked to the conceptions of the proletarian theatre of the early 20th century in a nostalgic relationship...