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4.20.16 Happenings -

Specified activities in a set time frame Shifts emphasis from o Spectating to co-creating o Product to process o Message to experience

Sam Shepard -

Cowboy Mouth Buried Child True West Themes: o Escape/deny past o Cowboy and west as American myths o Family as battleground o Empty dream/insubstantial reality

The Buried Child -

Halie and Dodge, elderly couple Bradley, angry amputee, cuts Dodge’s hair Tilden, maybe mentally ill, brings in random corn Vince (Son of Tilden) and Shelly Tilden slept with mom, had a baby, and Dodge killed it and stuck it in the backyard Vince goes bonkers and then his family recognizes him Dodge dies, corn is out of nowhere, Tilden has the dead baby body

Issues of Marginalized Groups -

Economic opportunities o Non-traditional casting Desire to control representation Creating works of art that speak to specific concerns Integration vs. separation

The Universal? -

Traditionally: white straight male experience is the universal More recently, can deal with marginalized figures and can be universal Marsha Norman’s ‘Night Mother

African American Theatre -

The Development of African American Dramatic Theory o The Plantation Era

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o The American Minstrel Era o The New Negro Renaissance o The Assimilationist Era o The New Age Post-revolutionary Era Five elements to this: Protest, revolt, assertion, music, and spirituality...