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Chapter 20 Eclectic Theatre

Eclecticism

Context

Post-modernism

Absurdists

New Venues

Conformity

-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

Proffesional Theatre

-large budget

-trend of transforming not-for-profit productions to commerical theatres on Broadway

Theatre of Underrepresented People

Eclectism

Living Theatre

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"

Not-for-Profit Theatre

Commerical Theatre

-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

Open Theatre

Avant- Garde

-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

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