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Playing underground: a critical history of the 1960s off-off-Broadway movement
Stephen J. Bottoms
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Frontmatter
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1. Digging (Up) the Scene: An Introduction (page 1)
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2. Setting the Scene: A Look at the Fifties (page 16)
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Part One: Emerging Venues, Emerging Playwrights, 1960-66
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3. Caffe Cino: The Birth of a Movement (page 39)
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4. Judson Poets' Theater: Verse Plays and Vaudeville Skits (page 61)
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5. La Mama ETC: Hurrah for the Playwright (page 83)
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6. Theatre Genesis: Urban Prophecy (page 105)
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7. In One Act: On the Aesthetics of Off-Off-Broadway Playwriting (page 124)
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Part Two: Present Collaborations, 1963-68
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8. The Judson "Musical": Sublimely Ridiculous? (page 147)
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9. The Open Theatre: Transformations (page 169)
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10. La Mama Troupe: The Kernel of Craziness (page 192)
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11. The Play-House of the Ridiculous: Beyond Absurdity (page 215)
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12. Other Kinds of Cruelty: Ritual, Participation, and the Plague (page 237)
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Part Three: Changing Times, 1966-73
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13. Going Overgound: Changing Profiles in the Later 1960s (page 259)
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14. Death and Disaster: Leaving the Caffe Cino (page 279)
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15. The Absense of Peace: Changing Politics, Changing Communities (page 301)
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16. Going Solo: Auteurs, Poseurs, and La Mama (page 322)
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17. Signals through the Flames: The Afterlife of a Movement (page 344)
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Appendix A: Chronology of Notable Events and Productions (page 367)
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Appendix B: Interviewees, Correspondents, and Discussants (page 375)
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Bibliography (page 377)
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Index (page 389)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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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
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- 9780472022212 (ebook)
- 9780472031948 (paper)