This work, which focuses on the 1989-2007 period, aims at clarifying the various meanings of "political theatre", a polysemic notion, which has been used at every turn, both in the practice and in the discourse of the various players on the theatrical stage : artists, theatre managers, programme planners, state and local authorities. Rejecting a normative, teleological approach based on the assumption that in the course of time one definition will invariably be succeeded and superseded by a better one, we started instead from our observation that in the past 20 years, the phrase "political theatre" has been subjected to a fairly large but by no mean unlimited number of simultaneous interpretations. This is why we adapted for the theatrical ...