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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instanceOf experimental theatre company
nonprofit arts organization
activeInDecade 1960s
1970s
artForm theatre
artisticDirector Richard Schechner NERFINISHED
associatedWith New York avant-garde theatre NERFINISHED
Off-Off-Broadway movement NERFINISHED
basedIn SoHo, Manhattan NERFINISHED
city New York City
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dissolvedInto The Wooster Group NERFINISHED
field performing arts
foundedBy Richard Schechner NERFINISHED
foundedInPeriod late 1960s
genre environmental theatre
experimental theatre
hasPublicationAbout Environmental Theater by Richard Schechner NERFINISHED
hasRehearsalSpace The Performing Garage NERFINISHED
hasWebsite https://www.richardschechner.com/the-performance-group
influenced The Wooster Group NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
Richard Schechner NERFINISHED
Spalding Gray NERFINISHED
Willem Dafoe NERFINISHED
notableWork Commune NERFINISHED
Dionysus in 69 NERFINISHED
Makbeth NERFINISHED
Mother Courage and Her Children NERFINISHED
performanceStyle audience participation
deconstructed classic texts
improvisation
physical theatre
performedAt The Performing Garage NERFINISHED
predecessorOf The Wooster Group NERFINISHED
region North America
state New York
usedConcept environmental theatre theory

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Elizabeth LeCompte influencedBy The Performance Group