The Drama Review: Volume 18 -

Dadatour
Raoul Hausmann
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07 December 2021, pp. 128-130
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Casserole: An Illusion
Victoria Nes Kirby
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07 December 2021, pp. 130-131
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Political Theatre as Popular Entertainment: The San Francisco Mime Troupe
Theodore Shank
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07 December 2021, pp. 110-117
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In the exuberance of revolutionary zeal, it is natural that certain political theatre groups should turn to forms of entertainment associated with fun, with the common man, with people in general regardless of social, economic, or educational status, in contrast with the traditional aristocratic forms that have “artistic” pretensions and tend to be more contemplative than energetic. It is also predictable that such groups should shun ballet, opera, the symphony, and literary theatre, and use instead techniques from commedia dell'arte, circus, puppet shows, music hall, vaudeville, parades, magicians, carnival side shows, buskers, brass bands, comic strips, striptease, melodrama, minstrel shows, and other means of exhilarating celebration.
Since the present seemed to hold no answers, it was inevitable that the search by these groups for political theatre forms would turn to the past, a past which, through education and television, had become more accessible than ever before. Such breaks with the present served another purpose as well—they demonstrated a disassociation with the Establishment and its theatre.

A Ru-howzi Evening
P.R.R.
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07 December 2021, pp. 114-115
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Sources in Popular Entertainment
John Towsen
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07 December 2021, pp. 118-122
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Dada-Fragment from: The Race Between the Sewing Machine and the Typewriter
George Grosz, Walter Mehring
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07 December 2021, p. 130
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The New York Feminist Theatre Troupe
Charlotte Rea
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07 December 2021, pp. 132-133
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TDR Comment: A Critical Evaluation of Kirby's Criticism of Criticism
Richard Schechner
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07 December 2021, pp. 116-118
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Dada-Fragment from: Simply Classical! An Orestia with a Happy Ending
Walter Mehring
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07 December 2021, p. 131
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Candide at the Broadway Theatre
B. E.
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07 December 2021, pp. 134-135
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TDR Index
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Stunting in the Cinema. Arthur Wise and Derek Ware. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973. 248 pp. $7.95 (hardcover). - The Unicyde Book. Jack Wiley. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1973. 224 pp. $7.95 (hardcover).
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07 December 2021, p. 123
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Meyerhold: The Art of Conscious Theater. Marjorie L. Hoover University of Massachusetts Press. 350 pp. $22.50 (hardcover). Illustrated.
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07 December 2021, p. 136
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Circus Life and Circus Celebrities. Thomas Frost. 1875. Reprinted, Detroit: Singing Tree Press. 328 pp. $12.50 (hardcover). - The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs. Thomas Frost. 1881. Reprinted, Ann Arbor: Gryphon Books. 388 pp. $15.00 (hardcover). - The Lives of the Conjurors. Thomas Frost. 1881. Reprinted, Detroit: Gordon Books. 360 pp. $12.50 (hardcover).
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The Tradition of Constructivism. Edited and an introduction by Stephen Bann. The Documents of 20th-century Art series. Viking Press, N.Y., N.Y. 324 pp. $16.50 (hardcover). Illustrated.
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Conference Mystique in the Esoteric Cabaret
Walter Mehring, translated by Mel Gordon, translated by John Houchin
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Raw Notes. Claes Oldenburg. Halifax: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1973. 227 pp., plus annotations, plus LXVI plates. $13.50 (flexible cover; stitched binding).
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List of Books Received
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Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court. Introduced and edited by Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong. University of California Press. 868 pp. $125.00 (two hardcover volumes). Illustrated.
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Understanding Brecht. Walter Benjamin. Translated by Anna Bostock. Introduction by Stanley Mitchell. NLB, 7 Carlisle Street, London. 124 pp.£2.25 (hardcover).
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