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Playing underground: a critical history of the 1960s off-off-Broadway movement

Stephen J. Bottoms
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  • Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • 1. Digging (Up) the Scene: An Introduction (page 1)
  • 2. Setting the Scene: A Look at the Fifties (page 16)
  • Part One: Emerging Venues, Emerging Playwrights, 1960-66
  • 3. Caffe Cino: The Birth of a Movement (page 39)
  • 4. Judson Poets' Theater: Verse Plays and Vaudeville Skits (page 61)
  • 5. La Mama ETC: Hurrah for the Playwright (page 83)
  • 6. Theatre Genesis: Urban Prophecy (page 105)
  • 7. In One Act: On the Aesthetics of Off-Off-Broadway Playwriting (page 124)
  • Part Two: Present Collaborations, 1963-68
  • 8. The Judson "Musical": Sublimely Ridiculous? (page 147)
  • 9. The Open Theatre: Transformations (page 169)
  • 10. La Mama Troupe: The Kernel of Craziness (page 192)
  • 11. The Play-House of the Ridiculous: Beyond Absurdity (page 215)
  • 12. Other Kinds of Cruelty: Ritual, Participation, and the Plague (page 237)
  • Part Three: Changing Times, 1966-73
  • 13. Going Overgound: Changing Profiles in the Later 1960s (page 259)
  • 14. Death and Disaster: Leaving the Caffe Cino (page 279)
  • 15. The Absense of Peace: Changing Politics, Changing Communities (page 301)
  • 16. Going Solo: Auteurs, Poseurs, and La Mama (page 322)
  • 17. Signals through the Flames: The Afterlife of a Movement (page 344)
  • Appendix A: Chronology of Notable Events and Productions (page 367)
  • Appendix B: Interviewees, Correspondents, and Discussants (page 375)
  • Bibliography (page 377)
  • Index (page 389)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
NYH 87.2 (2006) 254-257 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23183361
TDR 49.3 (2005): 194-196 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4488668
TJ 57.4 (2005): 780-781 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25069768
ModD 48.3 (2005): 611-613 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/193166
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Published: 2006
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780472114009 (hardcover)
  • 9780472022212 (ebook)
  • 9780472031948 (paper)
Subject
  • Dance & Performance History
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