Remaking American Theater: Charles Mee, Anne Bogart and the SITI Company

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-09-04
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

An account of contemporary theater practice in its most collaborative and dynamic form, this is the first book-length study of two of the most important American theater artists at the start of the twenty-first century. For twenty-five years, Mee and Bogart have pursued independent but sympathetic visions of theater rooted in the avant-garde of the 1960s, guided by a view of art and culture as a perpetual process of 'remaking'. Since 1992, the SITI Company has pioneered the unique combination of three training practices (Viewpoints, Suzuki, and Composition) as the basis for collective creations that layer language, gesture, and image in a complex and often stunning fashion. This study provides both a general introduction to Mee's unorthodox playwriting, Bogart's innovative directing, and the ensemble work of the SITI Company and an in-depth case study of their work together on bobrauschenbergamerica, a piece inspired by the art of Robert Rauschenberg.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
A note to the reader xx
Introduction: of hiccups and fireflies 1(10)
Part I A playwright, a director, and a company
11(148)
Mee: from accidental historian to citizen playwright
13(22)
Bogart: engendering space, or building a nest
35(25)
Mee: putting on the Greeks
60(26)
SITI: from Toga to ``New Toga'' and beyond
86(22)
SITI: the trainings (Suzuki, Viewpoints, Composition)
108(24)
Two metadramas: Bogart's Cabin Pressure and Mee's Full Circle
132(27)
Part II The making of bobrauschenbergamerica
159(116)
Preliminaries: facing Rauschenberg, making lists, collecting stuff
161(22)
Summer 2000: messing around in Saratoga Springs
183(15)
Fall 2000: getting ready in New York
198(21)
Winter 2001: rehearsing in Louisville
219(18)
Spring 2001: the play in performance
237(24)
bobrauschenbergamerica forever
261(14)
Appendix A. bobrauschenbergamerica: personnel and performance History 275(2)
Appendix B. SITI Company: production history 277(6)
Appendix C. Charles L. Mee: plays and productions 283(8)
Appendix D. Postscript: an email from Betty Bernhard 291(2)
Notes 293(21)
Index 314

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