Watch & Read (for Tuesday's Quiz)
America was changing rapidly in the 1960s, and rights movements were at the forefront of those changes. Civil Rights were dominant, but the 60s also saw growth in the Women's Movement, the LGBT rights movement, the Latino rights movement, and the American Indian movement. Also, Americans began to pay a bit more attention to the environment. All this change happened against the backdrop of the Cold War and the Rise of Conservatism. It was just wild. John will teach you about sit-ins, Freedom Rides, The March on Washington, MLK, JFK, LBJ, and NOW.
"Black Theater: The Making of a Movement" documents the birth of a new theatre out of the Civil Rights activism of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. It is a veritable video encyclopedia of the leading figures, institutions and events of a movement that transformed the American stage.
8/18/13: Bread & Puppet Theater celebrates their 50 year anniversary this summer in Glover. Eva attended the Total This and That Circus in Two Parts on Sunday to meet some of the artists and activists.
#8 The Radical 60s
Vocabulary
Afrocentricity
agit-prop theatre
Alan Kaprow
Amiri Baraka
Black Arts Movement
Bread and Puppet Theatre
chakras
Dutchman
Hair
happenings
IATSE
James Baldwin
Joe Papp
Joseph Chaikin
La Ma Ma
Living Theatre
Megan Terry
NEA
Negro Ensemble Theatre
Nikki Giovanni
Off-Broadway
Oh! Calcutta
Open Theatre
Paradise Now
Peter Schumann
Serpent
Tom O’Horgan
Viet Rock
Lecture
The Living Theatre
"Life, revolution and theater are three words for the same thing: an unconditional NO to the present society."
- Julian Beck, Co-Founder of the Living Theater
The Open Theatre
"I believe that we are on our own in trying to expand and develop ourselves, but it is all in vain unless we collaborate and pool together for an ensemble." -Joseph Chaikin, founder of the Open Theater
Hair
"The show rejected every convention of Broadway, of traditional theatre in general,
and of the American musical in specific. And it was brilliant." —Scott Miller
Bread and Puppet Theatre
"We want you to understand that theater is not yet an established form, not the place of commerce
you think it is, where you pay to get something. Theater is different. It is more like bread, more like a necessity. Theater is a form of religion." —Peter Schumann, Founder of the Bread and Puppet Theatre
Black Arts Movement (BAM)
"The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is ... political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act." —Amiri Baraka, Playwright