Съдържание:
  • Digging (up) the scene: an introduction
  • Setting the scene: a look at the fifties
  • I: Emerging venues, emerging playwrights, 1960-66
  • Caffe Cino: the birth of a movement
  • Judson poets' theater: verse plays and vaudeville skits
  • La Mama ETC: hurrah for the playwright
  • Theatre genesis: urban prophecy
  • In one act: on the aesthetics of off-off-Broadway playwriting
  • II: Present collaborations, 1963-68
  • The Judson "musical": sublimely ridiculous?
  • The open theatre: transformations
  • La Mama troupe: the kernel of craziness
  • The play-house of the ridiculous: beyond absurdity
  • Other kinds of cruelty: ritual, participation, and the plague
  • III: Changing times, 1966-73
  • Going overground: changing profiles in the later 1960s
  • Death and disaster: leaving the Caffe Cino
  • The absence of peace: changing politics, changing communities
  • Going solo: Auteurs, Poseurs, and La Mama
  • Signals through the flames: the afterlife of a movement.