Playing underground: a critical history of the 1960s off-off-Broadway movement
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Main Author: Bottoms, Stephen J., (Stephen James) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press c2004
Series:Theater--theory/text/performance
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 401 p.)
ISBN:0472022210
9780472022212

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