American Alternative Theater

by Theodore Shank

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Concerned with plays as theater, not as literature, this volume deals with the theatrical movement in which a work exists only in the audible, visual and social circumstances of performance. Shank looks at exemplary theater groups and individuals who have been responsible for alternative theater in the United States, ranging from Living Theatre to the Bread and Puppet Theater, El Teatro Campesino, Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman and Soon 3. Other groups or theatres discussed are the Open show more Theatre, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the Squat Theatre and the Wooster Group. show less

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Theodore Shank
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Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS
792.022 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Stage presentations modified standard subdivisions Techniques, procedures, apparatus, equipment, materials, miscellany Types of stage presentation
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PN2266 .S52 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Dramatic representation. The theater Special regions or countries
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