Regional theatre : the revolutionary stage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zeigler, Joseph Wesley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--United States.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 277 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1973]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Regional Theatre was first published in 1973. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This is a social history of a recent American cultural phenomenon--the development since World War II of numerous nonprofit regional theatres which, as a group, have changed the complexion of the American theatre. It is the story of a revolution, now over, and a call for a new purpose to follow it. After a discussion of the background against which the regional theatre movement began, the author traces the histories of individual theatre companies. And yet the book is less about actors, directors, and productions than it is about the struggle to create and sustain new cultural forms, and the tension between regional and central phenomena. Mr. Zeigler sees several related themes: institutionalism -- theatre as a continuing creative organism; decentralization--the bringing of theatre to all areas of the country; and the development of a National Theatre to serve the entire country. A significant element in the book consists of examination of some of the important funding programs which have aided the development of regional theatres.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Preface

1. Defining a Revolution

2. Antecedents: A World Elsewhere

3. Margo Jones: Legacy and Legend

4. Acorns: Theatres before 1960

5. Oak Trees: The Guthrie Theater and What Came After

6. Saplings: Small Theatres of the 1960s

7. Stabs at a National Theatre

8. To Save the World: The Actor's Workshop Moves East

9. Up against the Marble Wall: The Loss of The Actor's Workshop

10. The Establishment Theatre

11. New Plays and New Ploys

12. The Regional Dilemma

13. Storming the Citadel: The Theatres Go to New York

14. A More Suitable Dream

Notes

Suggestions for Additional Reading

Index

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Photographs.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-264) and index.

ISBN:

9780816658947

0816658943

OCLC:

234801440