Product Description: The essays in this anthology are situated within the larger context of a critical engagement with Richard Schechner's work as a theatre practitioner, teacher, scholar, activist and visionary. Through a wide variety of approaches, the contributors acknowledge the profound impact that Schechner's work has had on our understanding of performance as a mode of cultural practice and on the emergenge of Performance Studies as a discipline...read more

Product Description: Documents, essays, drawings, and photographs from the editors, Judith Malina, Beate Bennett, Armand Schwerner, and others, including the full scripts of The Tablets, Tumult, Rules of Civility, The Body of God, The Zero Method and more, chronicling a crucial historical period for the longest-surviving avant-guard theatre collective in the United States...read more

Product Description: In the volatile period of the late sixties and early seventies, several theater groups came to prominence in the United States, informing and shaping activist theater as we know it today. Restaging the Sixties examines the artistry, politics, and legacies of eight radical collectives: the Living Theatre, the Open Theatre, the Performance Group, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, El Teatro Campesino, At the Foot of the Mountain, the Free Southern Theater, and Bread and Puppet Theater...read more