4/11/13- The 60's & 70's in Theatre

Pulitzer Prize Winners: Modern Masters of Drama
(O'Neill, Williams & Miller)

Alan Kaprow's "18 Happenings in Six Parts" (1959)
-experimental theatre!
-we can do theatre anywhere
Words, 1961
(sometimes called "happenings")
(Even haunted houses are meta-theatrical activities)

The Living Theatre
founded by: Julian Beck & Judith Malina
"The Strike Support Oratorium", NYC 1974
agit-prop (agitational propaganda = protests)
Tableaux- very dramatic still picture (even curtain calls count)
Chaikin and Gary Goodrow in The Connection, 1960
Frankenstein, 1975

Malina & Beck

The Living Theatre's Seven Imperatives

1. In the Street: outside of the cultural and economic limitations of institutionalized theatre.
2. Free: Performance for the proletariat, the Lumpenproletariat, the poor, the poorest of the poor, without admission charge.
3. Open Participation: Break thru, Unification: Collective Creation.
4. Spontaneous Creation: Improvisation: Freedom.
5. Physical life: Body: Sexual Liberation.
6. Change: Increase of Conscious Awareness: Permanent Revolution: Unfixed (Flexible, Free) Ideology.
7. Acting as Action.