Authors:James M. Harding, Cindy Rosenthal,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: legacies, theaters, radical, sixties, restaging
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2006-12-19
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0472069543
ISBN-13: 9780472069545

In the volatile period of the late sixties and early seventies, several theater groups came to prominence in the United States, informing and shaping activist theater as we know it today. Restaging the Sixties examines the artistry, politics, and legacies of eight radical collectives: the Living Theatre, the Open Theatre, the Performance Group, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, El Teatro Campesino, At the Foot of the Mountain, the Free Southern Theater, and Bread and Puppet Theater. Each of the specially commissioned essays is from a leading theater artist, critic, or scholar. The essays follow a