The Performance Group

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The Performance Group was an experimental New York theater collective founded in the late 1960s, best known for its innovative, environmental stagings and for launching the work of director Richard Schechner and, later, members who formed The Wooster Group.

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The Performance Group canonical 2

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instanceOf experimental theatre company
nonprofit arts organization
activeInDecade 1960s
1970s
artForm theatre
artisticDirector Richard Schechner
associatedWith New York avant-garde theatre
linked to: Off-Off-Broadway

Off-Off-Broadway movement
linked to: Off-Off-Broadway
basedIn SoHo, Manhattan
linked to: SoHo
city New York City
country United States
dissolvedInto The Wooster Group
field performing arts
foundedBy Richard Schechner
foundedInPeriod late 1960s
genre environmental theatre
experimental theatre
hasPublicationAbout Environmental Theater by Richard Schechner
hasRehearsalSpace The Performing Garage
hasWebsite https://www.richardschechner.com/the-performance-group
influenced The Wooster Group
knownFor collective creation processes
innovative environmental stagings
site-specific performance experiments
language English
location New York City
movement experimental performance
postmodern theatre
notableMember Elizabeth LeCompte
Richard Schechner
Spalding Gray
Willem Dafoe
notableWork Commune
Dionysus in 69
Makbeth
linked to: Macbeth

Mother Courage and Her Children
performanceStyle audience participation
deconstructed classic texts
improvisation
physical theatre
performedAt The Performing Garage
predecessorOf The Wooster Group
region North America
state New York
usedConcept environmental theatre theory

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Elizabeth LeCompte influencedBy The Performance Group
Richard Schechner founded The Performance Group