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  • Chapter 8 - Experimental Collectives of the 1960s and Their Legacies

  • from Part III - Experimental Theatre and Other Forms of Entertainment
  • Edited by Julia Listengarten, University of Central Florida, Stephen Di Benedetto, Michigan State University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945
    Published online:
    20 August 2021
    Print publication:
    09 September 2021, pp 207-227

  • Summary

    This chapter traces the development of American experimental theatre ensembles from the 1960s to the 2010s. It emphasizes how the values of the 1960s youth culture and Off-Off-Broadway, including egalitarianism and anticommercialism, informed the devising practices of groups such as the Open Theater, the Performance Group, and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. It also addresses how efforts to critique and expand on the work of 1960s ensembles have informed the work of such later groups as Spiderwoman, Split Britches, the SITI Company, Tectonic Theatre Project, Pig Iron Theatre, and the Nature Theatre of Oklahoma. It argues that developments in form and process by American devising ensembles reflect an evolving understanding of theatre’s relationship to the social sphere and to the practice of freedom.