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Tales of the Tricycle Theatre
\"An inside look at London's Tricycle Theatre which with its series of verbatim plays has made a significant contribution to contemporary political theatre\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Performing Laramie: The Tectonic Theater's Project
[...]the actual writing was done by a writers' group that included assistant director Leigh Fondakowski as well as actors Stephen Belber and Greg Pierotti. [...]one actress's journal entries are not hers at all but rather those of the set designer who left the project midway. [...]in association with the university, Father Roger, who is the pastor of Saint Paul's Newman Center, a Roman Catholic church near the university, has been responsible for campus vigils, memorial programs and an ongoing educational program about homosexuality at his church. [...]the play underlines how culture clashes and misunderstandings can be overcome by getting to know people and advancing beyond assumptions. Because The Laramie Project offers this positive instruction, in addition to exploring how a town responds to and copes with a horrific crime, it has achieved what journalist Don Shewey calls \"an extended life\" in American schools.
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Staging local and oral history in America: Maryat Lee's EcoTheater, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, and Tectonic Theater Project
Toward the end of the twentieth century, the dramatic use of written and oral testimony proved to be a rich resource for the American stage in an exploration of how people respond to public and private events and how they view their lives. In this dissertation I look at theatre companies that have staged community stories and history through the voices of the townspeople. The three companies I focus on each represent a distinctive type of organization. Maryat Lee's EcoTheater, based in West Virginia, was a seminal grassroots company. It viewed urban commercial theatre as one that catered to a small percentage of the population and had little relevance to the lives of the people in rural America. Using indigenous players, it staged its own stories about local history as well as contemporary life and performed those stories mostly for local audiences. The Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble is a small-town professional ensemble in Pennsylvania. It also set out to create a play relevant to its community. It staged the words of the rural Pennsylvanians as they had written them to their local newspapers, attempting to chronicle the history of Bloomsburg over a period of two hundred years. While the Tectonic Theater Project is a professional company based in New York City, it too sought to stage the words of the people of a small American town. Responding to a specific event, the group members fashioned themselves as investigative journalists and traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, to interview the townspeople about the aftermath of a homosexual hate crime. Crafting a play from their interviews and with an eye on dissemination of their work, they performed the finished piece in Denver and New York City before returning to Laramie to present it for the townspeople there. The variety of approaches taken by the companies to staging local and oral history raises a number of questions that this dissertation explores. Who collects the material? Who shares their stories? And what are the tensions and changes that occur when that material is transformed into theatre?
Dissertation
Book Review: \Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain\
\"Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain,\" by Gabriele Griffin, is reviewed (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Book Review
The Exonerated
Stoller reviews a Culture Project production of Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's \"THE EXONERATED\" directed by Bob Balaban and performed at 45 Bleecker Theater in New York City NY.
Book Review
Performance Review: \The Exonerated\
Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's documentary play \"The Exonerated,\" directed by Bob Balaban, was presented as a staged reading by the Culture Project at 45 Bleecker Theater in New York City on October 12, 2002. For the play, Blank and Jensen interviewed 60 people who had spent anywhere from two to 22 years on death row.
Book Review
Book Review: \Documentary Theatre in the United States: An Historical Survey and Analysis of Its Content, Form, and Stagecraft\
Reviews the book \"Documentary Theatre in the United States: An Historical Survey and Analysis of Its Content, Form, and Stagecraft,\" by Gary Fisher Dawson (Greenwood Press, 1999, 249p, $65.00). Praises the work, noting \"it is clear that Dawson cares about his subject deeply.\"
Book Review
Royal Offerings in London at the National Theatre and the Royal Court
Three productions presented by the National Theatre in London, England, during 2000 are reviewed: 1) Arthur Miller's \"All My Sons,\" directed by Howard Davies; 2) David Edgar's \"Albert Speer,\" directed by Trevor Nunn; and 3) Marina Carr's \"On Raftery's Hill,\" directed by Garry Hynes.
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