Playing underground a critical history of the 1960s off-off-Broadway movement - Bottoms, Stephen J., (Stephen James) (University of Michigan Press, 2004)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-388) and index
Digging (up) the scene: an introduction -- Setting the scene: a look at the fifties -- I: Emerging venues, emerging playwrights, 1960-66 -- Caffe Cino: the birth of a movement -- Judson poets' theater: verse plays and vaudeville skits -- La Mama ETC: hurrah for the playwright -- Theatre genesis: urban prophecy -- In one act: on the aesthetics of off-off-Broadway playwriting -- II: Present collaborations, 1963-68 -- The Judson "musical": sublimely ridiculous? -- The open theatre: transformations -- La Mama troupe: the kernel of craziness -- The play-house of the ridiculous: beyond absurdity -- Other kinds of cruelty: ritual, participation, and the plague -- III: Changing times, 1966-73 -- Going overground: changing profiles in the later 1960s -- Death and disaster: leaving the Caffe Cino -- The absence of peace: changing politics, changing communities -- Going solo: Auteurs, Poseurs, and La Mama -- Signals through the flames: the afterlife of a movement