APPLIED & INTERACTIVE
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Radical theatre aims to make extreme changes in existing views, habits, conditions, or institutions.
Throughout the 20th-Century, avant-garde theatre has been concerned with politics or activism in one way or another. From the actions of the Futurist Movement through to the groundswell in political theatre after the 1960s, radical thought has always been applied to theatrical forms.
Over the past four decades, activist groups have used ritual concepts, often including participation of the spectator, taken to the streets, and organized festivals and spectacles presenting ideas marked by a considerable departure from the usual or traditional.
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Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook of Radical Thinking by Richard Drain The New Radical Theatre Notebook by Arthur Sainer The Cambridge Companion to Brecht edited by Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art by Guerrilla Girls Dangerous Border Crossers: The Artist Talks Back by Guillermo Gomez-Peña
- Resist, Inc. - A Boston-based foundation that has supported left and progressive organizations and movements since 1967. The early work in support of draft resistance and in opposition to the Vietnam War sustains them as evolve and embrace broader and deeper concerns related to resisting "illegitimate authority." Resist is also a resource center, providing grassroots organizations with technical assistance and information about other funding sources. (Added: 18-Mar-2003 Hits: 812 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Reverend Billy - Rev. Billy's Church of Stop Shopping is based in New York City and organizes regular congregation gatherings and other acts of activism relating to Starbucks, Disney, and others. All events feature Bill Talen as the Reverend joined by the Stop Shopping/Bombing Choir. (Added: 15-Mar-2003 Hits: 1095 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Robin Deacon - UK-based performance artist. (Added: 11-Oct-2005 Hits: 518 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- SALAAM Theatre - South Asian League of Artists in AMerica is a not-for-profit professional multidisciplinary theatre company celebrating South Asian American artistic excellence through creative risk-taking and experimentation that challenges all boundaries, connects all peoples and links all the arts in the spirit of progressive solidarity. (Added: 20-Jan-2004 Hits: 557 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- San Francisco Mime Troupe - Founding director R.G. Davis began with avant-garde performance events in lofts and basements in 1959. The troupe now continues to bring joy and energy to audiences, and annoy the powerful, particularly through their annual Youth Theater Project, which helps at-risk youth create and perform shows about their lives. (Added: 28-Mar-2003 Hits: 584 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Sherry Glaser - Star and author of Off-Broadway's longest running one-woman show: Family Secrets. Sherry has done benefits for Women's shelters and environmental agencies. She has taught workshops in Radical emotional transformation and Organic Improvisational Theater. She has also pioneered a workshop with Dr. Lauren Oliver called, The Nature of a Woman, A Workshop in Radical Emotion. She is passionate about protecting the natural resources and human rights, through projects like Breasts Not Bombs. (Added: 18-Feb-2007 Hits: 198 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Shkidy Theatre - An award-winning Russian theatre company that combines poetic poignancy, visual beauty, and philosophical art, resulting in a lyrical, beautifully crafted, and stunning performance. Shkidy is rooted in the rich Russian theatre traditions of Stanislavsky, Meierhold, Chekhov, and Dostoevsky. On that worthy base they create a novel theatrical experience that infuses comedy of absurdity with physical theatre; Comedia dell'Arte and goofy mime with theatrical impressionism. Theatre Shkidy is truly pioneering a new "Nonverbal Drama" theatre form. (Added: 11-Mar-2007 Hits: 237 Rating: 7.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Six Figures Theatre Company - A not-for-profit New York theatre company that was founded in 1990 by six women who found that their experiences and sensibilities were underrepresented in the canon of commercial theatre, and committed themselves to developing plays and supporting voices that might not otherwise be heard. (Added: 28-Aug-2003 Hits: 504 Rating: 8.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- SPART Action Group - Conceived by Northern Irish artist Justin McKeown in 2001 as the ultimate hybridisation of Sport and Art: Thus making SPART the most evolved form of leisure on the planet. SPART works have been presented throughout Europe, America and Canada from venues as noteable as the Ludwig Museum to venues as everyday as small English bars. (Added: 14-Aug-2007 Hits: 158 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- Surveillance Camera Players - Formed in New York in 1996 to protest against the use of surveilance cameras in public places because they violate the consitutionally protected right for privacy. The group performs specially adapted plays directly in front of such cameras, and is also active in New Orleans, Tempe, Arizona, and handful of European cities. (Added: 17-Mar-2003 Hits: 635 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Tantalus Theatre Group - An experimental theatre company based in Chicago, Tantalus seeks to create powerful and magical acts of peformance. (Added: 29-Apr-2006 Hits: 267 Rating: 9.50 Votes: 2) Rate It
- Teatro Potlach - Established in 1976 at Fara Sabina (Rieti) in Italy by Pino Di Buduo and Daniela Regnoli. The company is focused mainly on applied theatre research and experimentation, doing street performance and working with children to establish a theatre culture beyond art and entertainment. (Added: 18-Jun-2003 Hits: 600 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- THAW - Theatres Against War - An international network of theater artists responding to the United States' ongoing "War on Terror", aggressive and unilateral foreign policies, and escalating attacks on civil liberties in the US and throughout the world. (Added: 19-Jul-2003 Hits: 554 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- The Accidental Activist - Kathryn Blume, Co-Founder of the Lysistrata Project (the first worldwide theatrical event for peace), recounts the story of her astonishing inability to save the world. In a show that's part fact, part fantasy, part caffeine-induced madness, the performer imagines how she might make a difference on a planet that couldn't care less. The play is laced with impossibly optimistic socio-political observations and deft sketches of determined, defiant women from around the world. (Added: 24-Aug-2003 Hits: 458 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- The Brecht Forum/New York Marxist School - An independent institution of the left, The Brecht Forum presents numerous lectures, panel discussions, workshops and cultural events of interest to the left and progressive community. Since 1990, the Brecht Forum has had a close working relationship with the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory. Within their Manhattan loft, they offer a year-round program of classes, public lectures and seminars, art exhibitions, performances, popular education workshops, and language classes. (Added: 18-Mar-2003 Hits: 1469 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- The Diggers - The San Francisco Bay area provided a fertile ground for the growth of new movements in the 1960s: artistic, political, social, and cultural. The Diggers seemed to combine all these elements in their ideas, and presented a message that appealed to hippies and revolutionaries, to priests as well as poets. (Added: 28-Mar-2003 Hits: 424 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- The File Room - Archive of censored artistic practice which began as a physical installation in Chicago in 1994 and is now available online. Since 2001, The File Room has been maintained by the National Coalition Against Censorship in the United States collaboration with the Media Channel/One World Project. (Added: 15-Mar-2003 Hits: 464 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- The Foundry Theatre - A New York-based community of artists with revolutionary ideas for the theatre, inviting audiences to visit unexplored landscapes of thought. In addition to productions and commissions to artists, The Foundry hosts ongoing roundtables, conferences, and town meetings, inviting members of other communities to forge unconventional answers to conventional questions. (Added: 6-Sep-2003 Hits: 463 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- The Harold Pinter Society - Dedicated to studying, celebrating, and appraising the works of this prolific and frequently enigmatic writer. For almost twenty years, the society has published The Pinter Review - Collected Essays. As an Allied Organization of the Modern Language Association of America, the Harold Pinter Society organizes a business meeting, programs in which scholars present papers, and related social events at the MLA annual convention. (Added: 14-Nov-2006 Hits: 224 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- The Living Theatre - Founded in 1947 by Judith Malina and Julian Beck, The Living Theatre has staged more than 80 productions performed in eight languages in 25 countries on four continents - a unique body of work that has influenced theatre the world over. The group has developed new participatory techniques that enable the audience to first rehearse with the company and then join them onstage as fellow performers. (Added: 20-Jul-2003 Hits: 577 Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
- The Lysistrata Project - Website for the activist component of the theatre-based Lysistrata Project: opposing war, fully understanding its connection to oil, corporate profit and the doctrine of empire. Other issues include safeguarding the reproductive rights of women, calling for legal reform of corporate structure, and boycotting offending corporations. (Added: 28-Mar-2003 Hits: 452 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- The UnConvention - This theatre festival will take place at The Abingdon Theatre Complex and The Barrow Group Theatre at 312 W. 36th Street (between 8th and 9th Aves) in New York City August 27 - Sept 11, 2004. The UnConvention! is self-described as a theatrical "answer to the Republican National Convention and a voice for political change." (Added: 20-Apr-2004 Hits: 628 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 7) Rate It
- Tim Miller - Performance artist, author, teacher, and gay rights activist. Tim Miller is also co-founder of Performance Space 122 in New York City and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, California. In 1990, he was awarded a solo performer fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts and became known as one of the "NEA Four" when the grant was withdrawn under political pressure. (Added: 17-Aug-2004 Hits: 597 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Tracing Roads Across - Performance craft, artistic know-how and creative witnessing, traveling across the European cradle. A three years project (April 2003 – April 2006) on active culture, intercultural contact and human linking resources. Artistic realization by “Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards”, Project Organization and Co-Ideation by "Theater des Augenblicks". With the support of the "Culture 2000" Program of the European Union. (Added: 9-Jul-2003 Hits: 345 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Travesty Theatre - This company aims to create a spectacle that produces in its audience a state of revolution, fear, lust, pain, beauty, as well as exorcise our most personal and dangerous demons. Using an experimental process to achieve its goal of a theatre, in which the audience as well as the actor is free to challenge their deepest commitments to their limitations, Travesty Theatre is dedicated to exploring and experimenting with art in a variety of contexts. (Added: 4-Jan-2004 Hits: 482 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Usanu Theatre - UK-based theatre company founded in July 2004. Aspires to challenge the boundaries of European theatre practice, through a programme of research and performance, which is aimed beyond the confines of conventional artistic forms. (Added: 23-Apr-2005 Hits: 289 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 5) Rate It
- Women's Project and Productions Online - A premier New York Off-Broadway theatre dedicated to putting women playwrights center stage since 1978. The Women's Project provides a home for women playwrights and offers a world of entertaining and provocative stories written by women, and enjoyed by anyone willing to experience exciting new theatre. (Added: 19-Jul-2003 Hits: 377 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
- Working Theatre - The Working Theatre has been dedicated to producing culturally diverse plays that explore the lives of working people and the issues they confront. Based on East Broadway in downtown New York City since 1985, the company seeks to create theatre about and for working people, and strives to expose our labor and traditional audiences to some of the best theater being created anywhere; making it financially accessible to them through extensive audience development and outreach programs. (Added: 18-Mar-2003 Hits: 518 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
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