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Eclecticism
Context
-Dramatic unity
-circular story line
-Street Theatres and Guerilla Theatres
-political performances
-set of changes in the 1950's with underlying assumptions:
-objectivity and truth
-concept of absolutes
-suspicion of progress and personal identity
-truth shaped by cultural bias, myth,metaphor
-Dinner theatres
-Community and Educational Theatre
-Off- Broadway
-After World War II
-Sense of Stability initiating post-modernism
-Social Independence for women and men
-large budget
-trend of transforming not-for-profit productions to commerical theatres on Broadway
Theatre between 1950-2000
Plays were a form of mixed media
Many different styles
Black Theatre
-A Raisin in the Sun
-grew in the 1950's from racial turmoil
-looked back at Avant-gaurde in Europe
-tracked major shifts and took US through revolutionary politics
-embodied politics and art
Gay and Lesbian Theatre
-changes in 1960's
-John Gilnes
-hard time defining a "gay play"
-Attendance rose after 1980s
-Revivals became more popular after 1990
-surged after 1960s in different locations
-able to provide theatrical educational programs
Women's Theatre
-1970's
-theatrical unions
-use of improvised performance material
-Joseph Chaikin sought group focused performances
-explored central ideas
-disconnection of time and space
-actors provided their own environment
-modified ideas in the commercial theater
-freedom of language, subject, etc
-awarded prizes to African American authors and female and Hispanic playwrights
-produced plays by openly homosexual authors