4/16/13- The Open Theatre

The Open Theatre 1963-1973

Founder: Joseph Chaikin (1935-2003)
auteur- "director is god"
collaborator- shepherd guiding the process
Chaikin believed in a Wheel, not a Pyramid hierarchy
Famous for "The Serpent", 1967
Very politically-conscious
"The Terminal" (another outline scenario)

Chaikin

Jean-Claude van Itallie
"America Hurrah!"
-The Interview (great show; Part 1)
-TV
-Motel

La Mama (Gray Shapeless Monster)--- Experimental Theatre

Joe Chaikin & Sam Shepard, 1984
-Shepard was the "it" playwright in 80s/90s
-Chaikin had a stroke, so Shepard stepped in
"Tongues", 1972
Shepard- Magic Realism

• like Labyrinth or Pan's Labyrinth
• includes overly violent movies like Machete or Django Unchained

Shepard's "Buried Child"

-Fool For Love

Shepard

Bread and Puppet- indoor & outdoor theatre

-humongous puppets

-feed audiences (break bread together)

Richard Schechner

-radical stagings of classical material

-Dionysus in '69

-Yokastas Redux, 2005

-explorer of environmental theatre

1968- Britain disbanded censorship

-first time since 1574 (that makes it 394 years!)

The WOOSTER GROUP

-"Chronology"

-Deconstructive Theatre

-Route 1 & 9- a deconstructed Our Town

Founding Member: Willem Dafoe

-LSD....Just the High Points (deconstructed The Crucible)

Dafoe