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Monica Cristini

La MaMa Experimental Theatre – A Lasting Bridge Between Cultures

The Dialogue with European Theater in the Years 1961–1975

Monica Cristini

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Routledge
14 April 2025

The Arts: General & Reference; Performance art; Acting techniques; Theatre direction & production; Literary studies: plays & playwrights

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

This book focuses on the role of La MaMa Experimental Theatre within Avant-garde theater during the 1960s and 1970s.

This study investigates the involvement of the Off-Off Broadway circuit in the Avant-garde experimentations both in the United States (New York specifically) and in Europe. This exploration shows the two-way influence – between Europe and the United States – testified by documents gathered in years of archival research. In this relevant artistic exchange, La MaMa (and Ellen Stewart as its founder and artistic director) emerges as a key element. La MaMa’s companies brought to Europe the American culture and the New York underground culture, while their members learnt European training techniques by attending workshops or taking part in the research of Eugenio Barba, Jerzy Grotowski, and Peter Brook, and brought their principles back to the United States. This book goes through a chronological path that presents some key cases of collaboration between the above-mentioned European masters and some La MaMa’s artists and companies: Tom O ’Horgan and La MaMa Repertory Troupe, the Open Theatre, Andrei Serban and The Great Jones Repertory Company, La MaMa Plexus.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theater and performance studies.

By: Monica Cristini
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 390g
ISBN: 9781032372822
ISBN 10: 1032372826
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 14 April 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; Chapter 1: Approaching experimental theater in New York; Chapter 2: Café La MaMa presents the Off-Off Broadway movement (1961–1965); Chapter 3: Sharing cultures: the European Tours; Chapter 4: Developing a new kind of theater; Chapter 5: Two new companies at La MaMa; Chapter 6: A multicultural venue in New York

Monica Cristini is Researcher at the Department of Cultures and Civilizations, University of Verona, Italy.

Reviews for La MaMa Experimental Theatre – A Lasting Bridge Between Cultures: The Dialogue with European Theater in the Years 1961–1975

'Cristini’s book is excellent for the way that it shows how all this came to be and how it ended. There is value in exploring the past, as well exploding some of its myths. With a few heroic exceptions, it is rarely experimental, not structurally or dramaturgically political, and no longer avant-garde. Cristini’s book reminds us of a time when – for a moment atleast, and in particular historical circumstances – that was not the case.' Peter Eckersall, S K E N È, Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies