Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Popular Theater

It is time to defy Broadway and the universities. It is time to attack consumerism, chauvinism, and egoism, to expose irrelevance and faddish theatre gimmicks. It is time to leave the lights and the high tech and the bloated budgets for sets. It is time to abandon the cultural practices - the Guthries, the ACT's, the Juillards, the cozy university/professional comforts, to abandon the provinciality of New York's avant garde. - Douglas Paterson, We are Strong: A Guide to Popular Theare Across the Americas. 1983.

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