Theatre.

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  • Author(s): Clurman, Harold
  • Source:
    Nation. 11/28/1966, Vol. 203 Issue 18, p586-588. 3p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      VIET Rock (Theatrical production); POLITICAL plays; TERRY, Megan; IMPROVISATION (Acting); DRAMA; THEATER
    • Abstract:
      This article comments on various theatrical productions. The play "Viet Rock," written and directed by Megan Terry, goes by the name of "total theatre," an item in "the theatre of cruelty." It aspires to be free and gay, raucous, graphic, topical, improvisational, saltatory, shocking and politically explosive. There is little to indicate that this farrago is propelled by the force of genuine social indignation or understanding. There is hardly any true spontaneity: only untempered ambition and unripe mind. Such exhibits are swipes of avant-gardism.