American Avant-Garde Theatre

<p>This stunning contribution to the field of theatre history is the first in-depth look at avant-garde theatre in the United States from the early 1950s to the 1990s. <em>American Avant-Garde Theatre</em> offers a definition of the avant-garde and looks at its origins and theoretical foundations by examining:<br> *Gertrude Stein<br> *John Cage<br> *The Beat writers<br> *Avant-garde cinema<br> *Abstract Expressionism<br> *Minimalism<br> There are fascinating discussions and illustrations of the productions of the Living Theatre the Wooster Group Open Theatre Ontological-Hysteric Theatre and Performance Group. among many others. Aronson also examines why avant-garde theatre declined and virtually disappeared at the end of the twentieth century.</p>