Talk:Experimental theatre

Stage section
Perhaps the stage section should read, "If your setting deals with Wikipedia, then use Wikipedia to express your views!!" Once that is added, perhaps, also, there should be a link to tautology.

To be honest I don't know the wikipedia code of standards well enough to cite which rule this breaks, but I find it hard to believe that Experimental theatre is by consensus restricted to theatre that is inherently persuasive or confrontational. Certainly, Dada isn't dead. At least I hope not.

Criticisms?
Huh? Didn't write this, but watching it (hopefully....); but your criticisms are impenetrable. :) Whoever wrote this clearly has only read Artaud. For that, it's a okay explication. But experimental or avant-garde theatre means much more. Is that what you're saying It's one-sided, but not personal - pretty standard Theatre of Cruelty stuff, at a glance. Or did I not follow at all? DionysosProteus 04:46, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Answer
I'm glad that you like my criticisms - buh, I'm only a grade 12 student who studies drama in and out of school, and found the lack of Theater of the Opressed information on Wikipedia pretty disappointing! So I put in what my interpretation of ET was, based on my teacher's lectures and drama teacher's guidance. If you feel like changing or adding anything, feel free - you seem to know what you're doing!! At least, better than I do... As for "Artaud" ... who and what? I realise that what I wrote just skimmed the surface of this incredible style, but I wrote it pretty hurriedly so I could subliminally help my classmates and future students who didn't really feel like reading countless encyclopaedias. And what's the point when they could find a simplified version on Wikipedia? K8dajazzgal 00:16, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

In comparison with a lot of the other theatre articles, the one on Theatre of the Oppressed is pretty fleshed out. There are links there to other more relevant articles (like Brecht and the Lehrstücke. This one, though, doesn't relate at all, and perhaps you're right that it should. Boal's work is experimental in terms of its social function--the way it works in the world--but not so much in its artistic form, and that's the kind of experiment the writer of this article is thinking of. I will get to this article eventually, but it's not so high on my list of priorities right now. There are other big theatre people who's articles need more attention, I think. Regards. DionysosProteus 01:20, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Very confused article
I think this article is suffering from a lot of uncertainty, relating largely to the uncertainty as to what "Experimental Theatre" actually is.

Experimental theatre is a lot of things - ideologies, stylistic/aesthetic decisions, etc. If there's anything it's not it's easily definable.

My problem with this article is that it has too much hard language - "experimental uses" rather than "experimental theatre might use". I suggest a collection of different and contradictory movements and ideas that contribute to experimental theatre, and the consequent links to those ideas, rather than attempting an exhaustive explanation of what experimental theatre actually is.

This should include self-contained movements, practitioners, ideologies, social/contextual interpretations as well as the pedagogical and educational elements that constitute this area.

At the minute it looks like this article consists mainly of a rough amalgamation of Artaud, Boal and Brecht. Whilst these practitioners were important there is the rest of the alphabet to consider.

Let's get on this thing. Sebbi (talk) 21:47, 25 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok - I had a go at it. I felt that some of the information that was too practitioner-specific had to go, so there's bits that I've deleted or rephrased to reference those practitioners. There's still a lot of work to do though!Sebbi (talk) 23:16, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

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Clarifying the page name?
Hello everyone!

I was looking at this wikipedia page and realized that, while it is called "experimental theatre", it really only covers the works of modernists (and their influence on contemporary theatre companies). Seeing as experimental theatre is much more varied than the few practitioners mentioned here, I was wondering if the name for this page wasn't a little misleading?

Perhaps it would be more accurate to rename the page "Modernist Theatre", or "Modernism in Experimental Theatre". Let me know your thoughts?

All the best, 321- Tia M (talk) 21:54, 17 December 2021 (UTC)