Beyond the boundaries
Subtitle: American alternative theatre
By: Theodore Shank.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Experimental theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Other titles: American alternative theatre
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-350) and index.
"A new and enlarged edition of American alternative theatre."
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I.; title: American Alternative Theatre; title: 1960-80; title: 1. The Alternative Theatre 1; title: 2. Primary Explorations 8; title: The Living Theatre 9; title: The Open Theatre 38; title: 3. Theatre of Social Change 50; title: The San Francisco Mime Troupe 59; title: El Teatro Campesino 74; title: 4. Environmental Theatre 91; title: Richard Schechner: The Performance Group 93; title: The Bread andPuppet Theater 103; title: Snake Theater 113; title: 5. New Formalism 123; title: Robert Wilson 125; title: Suzanne Hellmuth and Jock Reynolds 134; title: Alan Finneran: Soon 3 140; title: Michael Kirby: The Structuralist Workshop 149; title: 6. Self as Content 155; title: Richard Foreman: The Ontological-Hysteric Theatre 159; title: Spalding Gray and Elizabeth LeCompte:; title: The Wooster Group 170; title: Squat Theatre 179; title: Part II.; title: American Alternative Theatre; title: since 1980; title: 7. An Introduction to Alternative Theatre Since 1980 193; title: 8. Outrageous Performance 199; title: "Indecency" and the National Endowment for the Arts 199; title: The Shock of Nakedness 202; title: Karen Finley, "The Chocolate-Smeared Woman" 202; title: Holly Hughes, Everybody's Girlfriend 209; title: Tim Miller, Everybody's Boyfriend 211; title: Juliana Francis and GO GO GO 213; title: Annie Sprinkle, Post-Post-Porn Modernist 215; title: Sacred Naked Nature Girls 217; title: Body Mutilation and Performance 219; title: Ron Athey: Self-Mutilation as Religious Experience 221; title: 9. Social Commitment 225; title: The San Francisco Mime Troupe 230; title: Anna Deavere Smith 236; title: Guillermo G6mez-Peiia 246; title: 10. New Technologies and Techniques 252; title: Ping Chong 253; title: George Coates Performance Works 264; title: Alan Finneran: Soon 3 279; title: Antenna Theater: Putting the Spectator; title: in the Performance 287; title: 11. Self-Reflections 296; title: Mabou Mines 297; title: Richard Foreman 311; title: The Wooster Group 327.