THEA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, August Wilson
28 Sep 2016
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Eclectic theatre: composed of elements drawn from various sources; not following any one system. Dinner theatres, community theatres, off-off broadway, education (youth) theatre. Main strands were political and artistic (change society or change the art of theatre, how it"s done. Absurdism ( waiting for godot, the rhinoceros ) devaluations of language as carrier or meaning. Jean genet"s the blacks, leroi jones" the toilet . Shift in the 1970s for african american authors (criticizing their own community) Theatres shared the conviction that women had been subjected to unfair discriminations ( equal pay for equal work ) Improvised performance material, much of it uncommonly personal : vagina monologues . Wendy wasserstein, tina howe, caryl churchill, paula vogel. Began in earnest with mart crowley"s 1968 comedy the boys in the band . Harvey fierstein, terrance mcnally, larry kramer, tony kushner, (t. williams) Arguably its zenith was the production of angels in america .
