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In The Early 1960s Two Leaders Of The New York Performance Group Living Theatre Were Asked To Define Its Purpose. In This Survey Of Contemporary American Drama, Matthew C. Roudane Argues That The Response Of These Two Pioneers In Experimental Theater - Julian Beck And Judith Malina - Goes A Long Way Toward Explaining The Purpose Of All Of The Rich And Varied Dramas To Appear On The Stage Since 1960: To Increase Conscious Awareness, To Stress The Sacredness Of Life, To Break Down The Walls. African-american Playwrights (lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka), Women Playwrights (marsha Norman, Wendy Wasserstein, Beth Henley), Gay Playwrights (harvey Fierstein, Tony Kushner), And Others Have Over The Past Three And A Half Decades Entreated Audiences To Acknowledge The Persistence Of Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, And A Host Of Other Societal Ills. Other Playwrights Have Asked Audiences To Confront Their Own Mortality (edward Albee), Their Compromised Morality (david Mamet), Their Unfulfilled American Dream (arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, And Countless Others). Whatever The Particularities Of These Playwrights' Personal Identities, Politics, Of Dramatic Style, They

Author

Matthew Charles Roudané

Publisher

Twayne Publishers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan ; Prentice Hall International

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805789546

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities