By Emma Govan
1. artwork of devising -- 2. yet is it paintings? : artwork and non-art -- three. inventive performer -- four. artwork, politics and activism -- five. Autobiographical functionality -- 6. Narratives of group -- 7. Adapting fictional tales -- eight. Making functionality space/creating environments -- nine. position of the artist -- 10. among routes and roots : functionality, position and diaspora -- eleven. talking physique : actual theatres -- 12. digital our bodies -- thirteen. moving barriers : concluding innovations
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Chaikin’s reasons for collaboration were somewhat different from the spontaneity of Living Theatre in the same period, and he was critical of practice that relied solely on a post-Freudian belief in psychic conditioning. He commented ruefully that: If we all stay with our hang-ups, and we define ourselves completely in relation to them and get all excited in our work when we find a repressive release for them, we haven’t got very far . . What’s less clear is the way we’re controlled by the givens of society.
As a tool of social mobilisation, the living newspaper provided the desired balance between factual information and political comment which appealed to activist theatre-makers. The Federal Theater, working in 1930s’ New York, offered its analysis of social problems arising from the agricultural depression in the form of a living newspaper called Triple-A Ploughed Under, which was staged in 1936. Triple-A comprised twenty-six short scenes, using characteristic living newspaper devices such as radio announcements, cartoon-style characters, projected diagrams and various forms of direct address through loud speakers and mass recitation.
The WTM had been deeply influenced by dramatic practices emerging from the young Soviet Union and from Weimar Germany, in particular propagandist forms such as those ART, POLITICS AND ACTIVISM 1222 2 3 422 5222 6 7 8 9 1011 1 2 3111 4 5222 6 7 8222 9 20111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40 41222 45 developed by the Blue Blouses and the Red Megaphones in Germany. Names of British theatre companies affiliated to the WTM reflect this influence – Hackney Red Radio, Deptford Red Blouses, Lewisham Red Players – and this allegiance was also mirrored in the propagandist theatre forms they adopted.