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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825642703321

Autore

Zeigler Joseph Wesley

Titolo

Regional theatre : the revolutionary stage / / Joseph Wesley Zeigler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, [1973]

©1973

ISBN

0-8166-5894-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 277 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

792/.0973

Soggetti

Theater - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Photographs.