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| 19th century US actors/actresses |
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| Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushmann, Edwin Booth. |
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| Helene Weigel, Elisabeth Hauptmann, Margaret Steffin |
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| Harlem Renaissance playwrights |
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| W. E. B. DuBois, Angelina Weld Gimke, Eulalic Spence, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes. |
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| Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee. |
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| Tim Miller, Holly Hughes, Karen Finley, John Fleck. |
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| 1960s/70s performance artists |
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| Yoko Ono, Chris Burden, Marina Abromovic, Carolee Schneeman, Adrian Piper. |
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| Brecht and Helene Weigel theatre company, lots of notes and details from original productions still available. |
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| 1935-1939, Hallie Flanagan Davis, created jobs after Depression, in small towns everywhere, used people from Workers Theatre, retains labor/socialist critique, HUAC shuts it down. |
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| 1960s, linked with Black Power Movement, develop distinct black culture, separatist, not aimed at white culture, art as violence, militant movement, “poems like fists”, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Imamu Baraka), mean towards gays. |
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| Lee Strasberg founded it, method acting |
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| Richard Schechner, move away from traditional text/stage, Environmental Theatre, Dionysus in 69. |
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| 1915, part of Little Theatre/Art Theatre movement, people trained by George Pierce Baker, Eugene O’Neill, Susan Glaspell. |
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| Polish Laboratory Theatre |
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| Jerzy Grotowski’s lab type theatre of movement, poor theatre. |
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| Tadeusz Kantor’s impossible theatre, Polish, The Dead Classroom. |
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| Anita Bush, African-American company, mostly Broadway plays, some originals with alterations to minstrel shows or vaudeville. |
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| Ridiculous Theatre Company |
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| 1967-80s, Charles Ludlam, high camp and drag, Bluebeard, Mystery of Irma Vep. |
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| monopoly on theatre in the late 1800s, broken in 1900s-10s. |
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| Tim Miller, Holly Hughes, Karen Finley, John Fleck, grant rejected from NEA for indecency, John Frohnmayer vetoes funding. |
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| 1960s, Julian Beck and Judith Malina did Guerilla Theatre, Environmental politically engaged radical theatre. |
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| professional theatre in 1931-41, Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Clifford Odets. |
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| 1960s, Joseph Chaikin, combined training with criticism, focus on performer not character, closed with “doomed to succeed”, The Serpent (1969). |
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| 1985, critics of sexism in visual art world, wear gorilla masks with name of female artist, produce posters and media, “Reinventing the f word: feminism” |
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| 1981-, Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver, Deb Margolin, performed at WOW Café, Little Women-The Tragedy, Belle Reprieve. |
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| Aids Coalition To Unleash Power, used art, ads and direct actions, TV news stations invasion, die-ins, “Silence=death” |
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| outgrowth of ACT UP, focused on anti-gay violence, “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it”, queer nights out, kiss-ins, neighborhood patrols, outing people. |
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| Percy MacKaye, 1900-20s, historical story of certain places, Pageant and Masque of St. Louis, Star of Ethopia. |
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| Peter Schumann, theatre is like bread--essential for life, huge puppets, free outdoor shows, Resurrection Circus. |
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| San Francisco Mime Troupe |
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| Joan Holden, commedia dell’arte plus agit-prop, I Ain’t Yo Uncle. |
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| International Arts Relation, Max Ferra. |
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| Women’s One World Café for feminist playwrights and Cuban playwrights? |
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| Joe Cino, Off-off-Broadway venue. |
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| Ellen Stewart, Off-off-Broadway venue. |
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