1st Edition
La MaMa Experimental Theatre – A Lasting Bridge Between Cultures The Dialogue with European Theater in the Years 1961–1975
By Monica Cristini
Copyright 2024
210 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
210 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book focuses on the role of La MaMa Experimental Theatre within Avant-garde theater during the 1960s and 1970s.
This study investigates the involvement of the Off-Off Broadway circuit in the Avant-garde experimentations both in the United States (New York specifically) and in Europe. This exploration shows the two-way influence – between Europe and the United States – testified by... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1: Approaching experimental theater in New York; Chapter 2: Café La MaMa presents the Off-Off Broadway movement (1961–1965); Chapter 3: Sharing cultures: the European Tours; Chapter 4: Developing a new kind of theater; Chapter 5: Two new companies at La MaMa; Chapter 6: A multicultural venue in New York
Biography
Monica Cristini is Researcher at the Department of Cultures and Civilizations, University of Verona, Italy.
'Cristini’s book is excellent for the way that it shows how all this came to be and how it ended. There is value in exploring the past, as well exploding some of its myths. With a few heroic exceptions, it is rarely experimental, not structurally or dramaturgically political, and no longer avant-garde. Cristini’s book reminds us of a time when – for a moment atleast, and in particular historical circumstances – that was not the case.'
Peter Eckersall, S K E N È, Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
