What is it about?
In theater, we're at war with ourselves. This article builds on the idea that theater faces anti-theatrical forces, exploring how American anti-theatricality has been internalized from the start of American theater.
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Why is it important?
Attempts to "raise" the level of theater often shade into attacks on what theater does best. This article is a rare look at anti-theatricality that looks at attitudes WITHIN theater, and not simply at those opposed to theater.
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As an actor, director, choreographer, playwright, and teacher, I've been struck how often fellow theater people makes excuses for what we do.
Dr David Carlyon
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This page is a summary of: William Dunlap, Father of American Theatre—and American Antitheatricality, Theatre Symposium, January 2007, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/tsy.2007.0010.
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