The Town Hall Affair
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The Town Hall Affair is an experimental theater piece by The Wooster Group that reconstructs and reimagines a contentious 1971 feminist panel featuring Norman Mailer using archival footage, live performance, and multimedia.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Town Hall Affair canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: The Town Hall Affair Context triple: [The Wooster Group, notableWork, The Town Hall Affair]
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L’Affaire
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The Winston Affair
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The Bottletop Affair
The Bottletop Affair is a story by British author John Mortimer featuring his comic barrister character Horace Rumpole, later adapted into the film "The Horizontal Lieutenant."
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Trial of the Twenty-One
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The Town Hall Affair Target entity description: The Town Hall Affair is an experimental theater piece by The Wooster Group that reconstructs and reimagines a contentious 1971 feminist panel featuring Norman Mailer using archival footage, live performance, and multimedia.
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A.
Town on Trial
Town on Trial is a 1957 British crime drama film directed by John Guillermin, centered on a murder investigation that exposes the dark secrets of a seemingly respectable small town.
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B.
L’Affaire
L’Affaire is a comic novel by Diane Johnson that satirizes American and European cultural clashes through a mystery set in the French Alps.
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C.
The Winston Affair
The Winston Affair is a lesser-known historical novel by American writer Howard Fast, who is best known for works like Spartacus and Citizen Tom Paine.
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D.
The Bottletop Affair
The Bottletop Affair is a story by British author John Mortimer featuring his comic barrister character Horace Rumpole, later adapted into the film "The Horizontal Lieutenant."
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E.
Trial of the Twenty-One
The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
experimental theater work
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theater piece ⓘ |
| artisticApproach | interrogation of media and history ⓘ |
| basedOn | 1971 Town Hall feminist panel ⓘ |
| basedOnEvent | Norman Mailer Town Hall debate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | The Wooster Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictsEvent | 1971 Town Hall debate on feminism ⓘ |
| depictsPerson | Norman Mailer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresPerson | Norman Mailer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
documentary theater
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experimental theater ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
feminism
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gender politics ⓘ public debate ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
collage of live and recorded material
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re-enactment ⓘ reconstruction of historical event ⓘ |
| originallyPerformedBy | The Wooster Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performingArtsCompany | The Wooster Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | The Wooster Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfSourceEvent | The Town Hall, New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectFocus |
feminist discourse in the early 1970s
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representation of women in public intellectual life ⓘ |
| theatricalForm | stage production ⓘ |
| usesMedium |
archival footage
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live performance ⓘ multimedia ⓘ video projection ⓘ |
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