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Author : Mary Elizabeth Booth Edelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
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 : R. G. Davis
Publisher : Palo Alto, Calif. : Ramparts Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
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 : James Martin Harding
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472069545
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book Restaging the Sixties written by James Martin Harding and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic exploration of eight radical theater collectives from the 1960s and 70s, and their influence on contemporary performance
Author : Eugène Van Erven
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253347886
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book Radical People's Theatre written by Eugène Van Erven and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 260 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)
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.
Author : Susan Vaneta Mason
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472120174
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
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.
Author : Claudia Orenstein
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578060795
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
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 : Arthur Sainer
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557831682
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Radical Theatre Notebook written by Arthur Sainer and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). This book traces three tumultuous decades of avant-garde theatre in the U.S. It begins with the Living Theatre, and explores diverse ensembles such as The Open Theatre, The Performance Group, and Bread and Puppet Theatre. It also looks at the women's theatre movement, and examines the work of Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman and more. There are sections devoted to ritual concepts, theatre in the streets, radical participation of the spectator, workshops in prisons, spectacles such as the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, and much more. This giant colloquium involves the people who changed the face of theatre from the '60s onward. Filled with photos, drawings, private notes and fliers, it is part ongoing history, part document, part journal, part complaint and part blessing.
Author : Peter Braunstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136058826
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book Imagine Nation written by Peter Braunstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, Imagine Nation is the first collection to focus solely on the counterculture. Its fourteen provocative essays seek to unearth the complexity and rediscover the society-changing power of significant movements and figures.
Author : Anthony Ashbolt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131732188X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of the Radical Sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area written by Anthony Ashbolt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The San Francisco Bay Area was a meeting point for radical politics and counterculture in the 1960s. Until now there has been little understanding of what made political culture here unique. This work explores the development of a regional culture of radicalism in the Bay Area, one that underpinned both political protest and the counterculture.
