Subversive Theatre

"Perhaps you could describe it as 'theatre of defiance'; yes, my object is to defy. I am protesting against the conspiracy of silence about how the next man lives and what happens to groups other than our own."

Source Material on Specific Radical Artists

Alfred Jarry -- Biography & Links
A short but solid run down on France's Turn-of-the-Century subversive playwright

Augusto Boal - Introduction to
General background on this Brazilian Director, author of the book "Theatre of the Oppressed"

Ariel Dorfman Home Page
Up-to-date info on the latest works of this radical Chilean playwright/novelist

Arthur Miller Society
Extremely detailed info from people with nothing better to do than sit around and talk about Miller

Athol Fugard Statements links
Plenty o' info on the playwright known as
"The Conscience of South Africa"

Brecht Links
Ya know, stuff about Bertolt Brecht

Caryl Churchill -- Bio & Bibliography
Extensive info complete with critical analysis of England's ground-breaking lesbian playwright

Clifford Odets
A short write-up on the one-time Communist Party member playwright and leading architect of socialist realism in the American Theater

Dario Fo - Biography
Italy's Nobel Prize-winning revolutionary
novelist/satirist/playwright

Federico Garcia Lorca
A good biography on the Spanish gay left-wing poet/playwright

George Bernard Shaw - Biography and Works
Ya know, stuff about G. B. Shaw

Howard Barker -- Bio & Bibliography
A short sum up of England's unapologetically socialist playwright of the 1970s & 1980s

Howard Brenton Bio
A short write-up on one of Britain's most radical contemporary playwrights

Jean Genet Biography
A decent bio with some links on the French revolutionary playwright

Erwin Piscator -- Justin's Drama & Theatre Links
A high school drama teacher in Melbourne, Australia has put together this excellent database for essays on and by German Formalist Director Erwin Piscator

Lee Strasberg -- Justin's Drama & Theatre
A high school drama teacher in Melbourne, Australia has put together this excellent database on "the American exponent of method acting"

Langston Hughes Bibliography
Extensive site on the poet/playwright of the Harlem Renaissance

Lillian Hellman
A short but good rundown on this blacklisted mid-Twentieth Century leftist playwright with some links

Moises Kaufman Bio
An all too short summation on the author of LARAMIE PROJECT and GROSS INDECENCY: THE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE

Naomi Wallace
A good write-up on the American contemporary playwright and anti-war activist

Paul Robeson - Bio
A lengthy essay with links on this incredible blacklisted Black singer/actor/athlete/lawyer/activist

Paula Vogel Biography
A short bio with a few links on this contemporary feminist playwright

Peter Weiss Bio & Bibliography
Good background info on the Swedish playwright known as the inheritor of Bertolt Brecht

Piscator Page
Everything you ever wanted to know about Brecht's mentor, "The Father of Proletarian Theatre"

Rebecca Gilman
Pathetically short write-up on this contemporary Chicago feminist playwright

Suzan-Lori Parks
Pulitzer Prize-winning Black contemporary playwright

Tariq Ali - Bio
A quick bio on the Pakistani-born Trotskyite essayist, activist, theoretician, and playwright

The Beat Page - LeRoi Jones Bio
A so-so source of info on the revolutionary 1960s Black poet/playwright

Tony Kushner Biography
Short bio with a couple of links on one of today's leading voices in political theatre

Vsevolod Meyerhold -- Justin's Drama & Theatre
Once again, our friend the high school drama teacher in Melbourne, Australia offers us a good links page with essays on and by this Russian Formalist Director

Wallace Shawn -- Bio & Articles
Bio on and essays by the indomitable independent and sporadically political writer/actor famously described by Woody Allen as "the bald homunculus"

Wole Soyinka - Biography
A brief bio on Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning radical playwright/poet/novelist