OSU Theatre Presents: Wild Stages: Kabarett MFA! May 1, 2008

Following a quarter-long research project, ten M.F.A. actors, under the
guidance of Professor John Giffin, create and recreate the Wild Stages of 1890–1933. At the end of the 19th century, dissatisfaction with prevailing forms of artistic expression led theatre people, painters, poets, musicians and dancers to experiment with new forms that anticipated the coming of the Avant-Garde. These forms include popular songs, puppet and shadow shows, humorous and satiric poems, dances, one-act plays, dramatic sketches and monologues. Artists used their marginal genres from folk and popular culture to express their disdain for the art of a society that had become less relevant to them.

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