Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off Broadway Movement
Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off Broadway Movement By Stephen J. Bottoms
2004 | 415 Pages | ISBN: 047211400X | PDF | 1 MB
2004 | 415 Pages | ISBN: 047211400X | PDF | 1 MB
Off-off Broadway groups such as the Living Theatre, La Mama, and Caffe Cino captured the spirit of nontraditional theater with their edgy, unscripted, boundary-crossing subjects. Yet, as Bottoms discovers, there is no one set of truths about off-off Broadway to uncover; the entire scene was always more a matter of competing perceptions than a singular, concrete reality. No other author has managed to illuminate this shifting tableau as Bottoms does. Through interviews with dozens of the era's leading playwrights, performers, directors, and critics, he unearths a countercultural theater movement that was both influential and transforming-yet ephemeral and quintessentially of its moment. "Playing Underground" will be a definitive work on the subject, offering a complete picture of an important but little-studied period in American theater.