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Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway. 黃昱嘉 9843029. “OFF”. “Off” means “away”. Broadway is not a geographic concept anymore. Style Scale. Useful Chart. Off Broadway. Origins around 1950. Purpose: Attract any types of Audience. Broadway theater vs. Off Broadway theater. Shubert Theater.
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Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway 黃昱嘉 9843029
“OFF” • “Off” means “away”. • Broadway is not a geographic concept anymore. • Style • Scale
Off Broadway • Origins around 1950. • Purpose: Attract any types of Audience. • Broadway theater vs. Off Broadway theater
Off Broadway • Play for small audience because • Smaller budget • Artistic attempt • Retreat from Proscenium houses.
Off Broadway • Play for smaller audience because • Innovation • The intimate theater.
Double Off Broadway • More out of the way place. • More loose contracts. • The rich 1960s made the advantage of Off Broadway disappear.
Double Off Broadway • 1. Small Theater • 2. Amateur • 3. achievement • Performance text • Improvisation • anti-illusionistic • Environmental Theatre.
La mama ETC • Blueprint of most Double Off Broadway theater in another countries. • Taipei’s Off-off Broadway Movement in 1980s. • Dr. Wu Chin Chi. • Lan-Lin Theater.
Joe Papp • Raised from a poor Jewish family in NY Brooklyn.
Joe Papp • Learn Stanislavsky's way from group theater. • Start Shakespeare Workshop in 1953. • Put plays in the public. • Citizens have the right to watch the free play.
Joe Papp • War of Grass?
Joe Papp • Honored by NY city Gov. • Became NY Shakespeare Festival. • Put a play in Delacorte Theater every year. • Found Public Theatre • A Chorus Line.