San Francisco Mime Troupe

Author : R. G. Davis
Publisher : Palo Alto, Calif. : Ramparts Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The San Francisco Mime Troupe written by R. G. Davis and published by Palo Alto, Calif. : Ramparts Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside story of the San Francisco Mime Troupe's first ten years, as told by its founder. Not an official history, this text presents one person's assessment of a complex period. Topics covered include hard facts about alternative lifestyles and art forms: getting busted for dope and obscenity, grappling internally with racism and sexism, and stresses between participatory democracy and the need for discipline and organization.

Author : Susan Vaneta Mason
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472120174
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The San Francisco Mime Troupe Reader written by Susan Vaneta Mason and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The San Francisco Mime Troupe Reader is a long-overdue collection of some of the finest political satires created and produced by the Tony Award-winning company during the last forty years. It is also a history of the company that was the theater of the counterculture movement in the 1960s and that, against all odds, has managed to survive the often hostile economic climate for the arts in the United States. The plays selected are diverse, representing some of the Troupe's finest shows, and the book's illustrations capture some of the Troupe's most memorable moments. These hilarious, edgy, and imaginative scripts are accompanied by insightful commentary by theater historian and critic Susan Vaneta Mason, who has been following the Troupe for more than three decades. The Mime Troupe Reader will engage and entertain a wide range of audiences, not only general readers but also those interested in the history of American social protest, the counterculture of the 1960s-particularly the San Francisco scene-and the evolution of contemporary political theater. It will also appeal to the legions of Troupe fans who return every year to see them stand up against another social or corporate Goliath.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book San Francisco Mime Troupe [clippings]. written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : San Francisco Mime Troupe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780960690206
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book By Popular Demand written by San Francisco Mime Troupe and published by . This book was released on 1980-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claudia Orenstein
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617030970
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Festive Revolutions written by Claudia Orenstein and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are traditions of popular theatre still alive in politically-engaged theatre today? In San Francisco they are. The San Francisco Mime Troupe is a modern link in the long history of public performances that have a merry air but have a voice of political protest and social comment. Every summer since 1962 the Troupe has taken free outdoor performances to public parks in the Bay Area. In a style that is festive and a spirit that is revolutionary the Mime Troupe has relied on popular theatre forms to address timely political and social issues. Their productions maintain a contemporary political edge, while showing their origins to be the popular traditions of the commedia dell'arte, circus clowning, vaudeville, puppetry, and minstrel shows. With The Minstrel Show or Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel (1965) they expressed support of the civil rights movement. With L'Amant Militaire (1967) they voiced support of Vietnam War protests. To discover what makes these apparently frivolous theatrical traditions effective for contemporary political theatre, Festive Revolutions explores the historical origins of the popular forms the Mime Troupe draws on. In old Europe, where performance traditions began, political turmoil blended with festive celebration. The lineage of the Mime Troupe's Punch the Red can be traced back to the Italian puppet figure Pulcinella through its English and Russian counterparts Punch and Petrushka. In the Mime Troupe the use of stereotypes and reliance upon colorful festivity are diverse strategies for dodging censorship. Productions like Ripped Van Winkle continue today to rekindle the radicalism the Troupe inherited from the culture of the 1960s. Festive Revolutions shows that such forms have inspired political theatre for centuries.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book San Francisco Mime Troupe written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claudia Orenstein
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578060795
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Festive Revolutions written by Claudia Orenstein and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are traditions of popular theatre still alive in politically-engaged theatre today? In San Francisco they are. The San Francisco Mime Troupe is a modern link in the long history of public performances that have a merry air but have a voice of political protest and social comment. Every summer since 1962 the Troupe has taken free outdoor performances to public parks in the Bay Area. In a style that is festive and a spirit that is revolutionary the Mime Troupe has relied on popular theatre forms to address timely political and social issues. Their productions maintain a contemporary political edge, while showing their origins to be the popular traditions of the commedia dell'arte, circus clowning, vaudeville, puppetry, and minstrel shows. With The Minstrel Show or Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel (1965) they expressed support of the civil rights movement. With L'Amant Militaire (1967) they voiced support of Vietnam War protests. To discover what makes these apparently frivolous theatrical traditions effective for contemporary political theatre, Festive Revolutions explores the historical origins of the popular forms the Mime Troupe draws on. In old Europe, where performance traditions began, political turmoil blended with festive celebration. The lineage of the Mime Troupe's Punch the Red can be traced back to the Italian puppet figure Pulcinella through its English and Russian counterparts Punch and Petrushka. In the Mime Troupe the use of stereotypes and reliance upon colorful festivity are diverse strategies for dodging censorship. Productions like Ripped Van Winkle continue today to rekindle the radicalism the Troupe inherited from the culture of the 1960s. Festive Revolutions shows that such forms have inspired political theatre for centuries.

Author : Mary Elizabeth Booth Edelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The San Francisco Mime Troupe as Radical Theater written by Mary Elizabeth Booth Edelson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Haleh Roshan
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822241404
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Free Free Free written by Haleh Roshan and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FREE FREE FREE FREE is based on the true story of the Diggers, an anarchist theater collective formed out of the San Francisco Mime Troupe; the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and Students for a Democratic Society; and the rise of Asian American solidarity. Each group fights against capital and exploitation, fights for liberation, and envisions an America and a world beyond constant war, immeasurable poverty, and global hunger. But how the #$%! do we, they, we get from here to there? A Brechtian exploration of 1960s Bay Area anti-capitalists and their efforts at igniting a new American revolution, this is a play in perpetual struggle session with itself—but like, in a nice way!

Author : David W. Bernstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520256174
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The San Francisco Tape Music Center written by David W. Bernstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DVD, entitled Wow and flutter, contains recordings of concerts at the festival, held Oct. 1-2. 2004, RPI Playhouse, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.