The Living Theatre
The Living Theatre

Author: John Tytell

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780802134868

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The story of The Living Theatre is also the story of the emergence of a New York avant-garde in the 1950s and the resulting counterculture of the 1960s. The company was a kind of theatrical tribe, creating and staging plays collectively, living communally, and cultivating an atmosphere of sexual openness and adventure. And what a cast of characters passes through these pages: Tennessee Williams, Frank O'Hara, Anais Nin, James Agee, Allen Ginsberg and the Beats, Jackson Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists, Dorothy Day, John Ashbery, Peggy Guggenheim, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Alan Hovhaness, and Maya Deren, among many others. Tytell has captured the mood and the artistic and political challenges of one of the most dynamic eras in American cultural history, and The Living Theatre should be read by everyone who shares a passion for the arts and knows the sacrifices that passion, at times, demands.

The Enormous Despair
The Enormous Despair

Author: Judith Malina

Publisher:

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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The Enormous Despair is a record, in diary form, of the year 1968, when, after an extended tour of Europe, The Living Theatre returned to tour the United States.

Anthology of Living Theater
Anthology of Living Theater

Author: Edwin Wilson

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13:

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This anthology of plays includes introductory sections which acquaint readers with the process of reading a playscript. There are also notes which provide background on both the play and playwright.

American Cultural Rebels
American Cultural Rebels

Author: Roy Kotynek

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2008-03-17

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 078643709X

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Artistic vanguards plot new aesthetic movements, print controversial magazines, hold provocative art shows, and stage experimental theatrical and musical performances. These revolutionaries have often helped create America's countercultural movements, from the early romantics and bohemians to the beatniks and hippies. This work looks at how experimental art and the avant-garde artists' lifestyles have influenced, and at times transformed, American culture since the mid-nineteenth century. The work will introduce readers to these artists and rebels, making a careful distinction between the worlds of the high modern artist (salons and galleries) and the bohemian.

A Different Direction
A Different Direction

Author: John Ahart

Publisher: Publish Green

Published:

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1936183854

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The living theatre is potentially the most affecting of all the arts. It not only explores who we are and where we are going, but how we are connected. As we are inundated with other versions of mass media, we have nearly forgotten how important that connection is. We cannot afford to lose the power of this art at this time in our history.

Surviving Theatre
Surviving Theatre

Author: Marco Pustianaz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-28

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1000450546

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Written soon before and in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, when theatre ground to a halt and spectatorship was suspended, this book takes stock of spectatorship as theatre’s living archive and affirms its value in the midst of the present crisis. Drawing from a manifold affective archive of performances and installations (by Marina Abramović, Ron Athey, Forced Entertainment, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Blast Theory, LIGNA, Doris Salcedo, Graeme Miller, Lenz Rifrazioni, Cristina Rizzo, etc.), and expanding on the work of many theorists and scholars, such as Roland Barthes and Jacques Rancière, Giorgio Agamben and Alain Badiou, Nicholas Ridout and Alan Read, among others, the book focuses on the spectator as the subject, rather than the object, of investigation. This is the right time to remember their secret power and theorise their collective time in the theatre. This book is an archive of their adventure and a manifesto rooted in their potentiality. It boldly posits the spectator as the inaugurator of theatre, the surplus that survives it. The book will be of great interest to spectators all and sundry, to scholars and students of theatre and performance studies, of spectatorship and politics.

Hong Kong Yesterday
Hong Kong Yesterday

Author: Mark Pinsukanjana

Publisher:

Published: 2017-02-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780977882830

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Hong Kong Yesterday presents a singular vision of this enigmatic city by award winning photographer, Fan Ho. Black and white images capturing life in mid-century Hong Kong range from quiet voyeuristic tableaus to chaotic crowds, most focusing on the citys inhabitants. Businessmen, families, dockworkers, alleys, markets and street scenes are all rendered in a style that is simultaneously abstract and humanistic. Fan Ho was born in Shanghai in 1937; he immigrated to Hong Kong as child and passed away in 2016.

Restaging the Sixties
Restaging the Sixties

Author: James Martin Harding

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9780472069545

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A dynamic exploration of eight radical theater collectives from the 1960s and 70s, and their influence on contemporary performance

Living on Third Street
Living on Third Street

Author: Hanon Reznikov

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781570271977

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Scripts, Photos, Director's Notes, Musical Scores, Set Designs and More, From a Remarkably Fertile Period in the Half-Century-Long History of the Most Important Radical Theatre Ensemble in American (Or World) History. Book jacket.