American Theater in the 1960’s (The Sixties in America)
Overview
Before World War II throughout Europe and the United States, poets, philosophers, and artists questioned reality, the purpose of life, and the meaning of art. In New York, theater groups explored the same socialism that later netted participants accusations of being communist. Antonin Artaud, writing in the 1930’s in France, claimed that theater would allow humans to create the new impulses that were to arise out of the chaos of social repression. His Theater of Cruelty would force audiences to confront that which lay repressed in them. He taught that Western...
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