{ "item_title" : "New Radical Theater Notebook", "item_author" : [" Arthur Sainer "], "item_description" : "THE NEW RADICAL THEATER NOTEBOOK traces three tumultuous decades of avant-garde theatre in the U.S. It begins with the Living Theatre, and explores the lives of diverse ensembles: The Open Theater, The Performance Group, Bread and Puppet Theatre, Mahou Mines, The Bridge Collective, SQUAT, The Firehouse Theatre, The San Francisco Mime Troupe, The Talking Band, and others. It looks at the women's theatre movement: At the Foot of the Mountain, Women's Experimental Theatre, and Spiderwoman. It explores the work of Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, Charles Ludlam, Stuart Sherman, Ping Chang, Bob Carroll, Margo Lee Sherman, and the later work of Joe Chaikin and his Winter Project. There are sections devoted to ritual concepts, to the life of theatre in the streets, to the sometimes radical participation of the spectator, to workshops in prisons and houses of detention, to spectacles such as the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, to the historic avant-garde festivals that occurred in Ann Arbor and Baltimore. There are documents galore: whole scripts and fragments of scripts, including the Living Theatre's Six Public Acts, which opened one night on the streets of Pittsburgh and ran until 3:30 the following morning; excerpts from working journals; discussions (sometimes cantankerous) between artists including a long interview between Joe Chaikin and Arthur Sainer, held shortly after the breakup of The Open Theater. THE NEW RADICAL THEATER NOTEBOOK is part ongoing history, part document, part working journal, part complaint, and part blessing. It is a giant colloquium involving many of the people who changed the face of theatre from the sixties onward. And it is filled withphotographs, drawings, odd little private notes, and occasional flyers documenting the many-faceted movement that is sometimes lurching and sometimes speeding and sometimes trying to find its feet in these strange times.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/55/783/168/1557831688_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "19.95", "online_price" : "19.95", "our_price" : "19.95", "club_price" : "19.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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