Regional theatre : the revolutionary stage

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910957666003321
• Autore: Zeigler Joseph Wesley
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, [1973]
• ISBN: 9780816658947; 0816658943
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.