Restaging the Sixties: Radical theaters and their legacies
By: James M. Harding & Cindy Rosenthal
This book explores eight theaters (The Living Theatre, The Open Theatre, At the Foot of the Mountain, The San Francisco Mime Troupe, El Teatro Campesino, The Free Southern Theater, The Performance Group, and Bread and Puppet Theater) that were significant in that period. The first section on each theater is a historical overview talking about the people who started the theater, what they were trying to do, and a description of how it evolved over time, and in most cases how the theater eventually went away. The second section discusses the contributions made by that theater to the overall subject of political theater. Finally an essay goes over the legacy of those contributions over the time since the sixties (and seventies). UT’s own Dr. Charlotte Canning writes this essay about At the Foot of the Mountain.
Reviewer: Beth
