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CHAPTER I
A HISTORICAL EVALUATION OF
THE OPEN 2HE. TRE AND THE PLAYWlRIGHTS
UTILIZED IN THIS EXPERIMENT
In September of 1963, a group of actors and directors
and playwrights in New York found themselves at the same
point in their professional development: they were tired of
conventional New York theatrical expression and disgusted
with the nearly total lack of outlets available for experi-
mental work. This group, founded by Joseph Chaikin, became
known as the Open Theatre.
Chaikin, born in Brooklyn of Russian parents and edu-
cated at Drake University in Iowa, was for several years the
central actor of the Living Theatre. During that time he
won several off-Broadway "Obies," including one for his per-
formance in Brecht's Man Is Man (20, p. 56). The Open
Theatre's goals as defined by Chaikin are "to redefine the
limits of the stage experience, or unfix them. To find ways
of reaching each other and the audience" (19, p. 9).
Since its founding, the group has continued in its
views about That is worth expressing in the theatre and how
t express it. The group has remained deliberately non-
commercial. The rent on their rehearsal loft, on Spring
Street in Manhattan's East Village, is paid by membership
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Peveto, Mildred A. An Experiment in Open Theatre, thesis, August 1972; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500450/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .