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Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) by Stephen J. Scott-Bottoms is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"Scrupulously researched, critically acute, and written with care, __Playing Underground__ will become a classic account of an era of hard-won free expression."-William Coco"At last---a book documenting the beginnings of Off-Off Broadway theater. __Playing Underground__ is an insightful, illuminating, and honest appraisal of this important period in American theater."-Rosalyn Drexler, author of __Art Does (Not!) Exist__ and __Occupational Hazard__"An epic movie of an epic movement, __Playing Underground__ is a book the world has waited for without knowing it. How precisely it captures the evolution of our revolution! I am amazed by the book's scope and scale, and I bless its author especially for giving two greats, Paul Foster and H. M. Koutoukas, their proper, polar places, and for memorializing such unjustly forgotten masterpieces as Irene Fornes's __Molly's Dream__ and Jeff Weiss's __A Funny Walk Home__. Stephen Bottoms's vivid evocation of the grand adventure of Off-Off Broadway has woken and broken my heart. It is difficult to believe that he was not there alongside me to breathe the caffeine-nicotine-alkaloid-steeped air."-Robert Patrick, author of __Kennedy's Children__ and
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- Author
- Stephen J. Scott-Bottoms
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786612437656
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Science, Performing Arts
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