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	THE WOOSTER GROUP - About The Group
		Wooster Group theatre pieces are constructed as assemblages of juxtaposed elements: radical staging of both modern and classic texts, found materials, films and videos, dance and movement, multi-track scoring, and an architectonic approach to theatre design.
		The Wooster Group has played a pivotal role in bringing technologically sophisticated and evocative uses of sound, film and video into the realm of contemporary theatre, and in the process has influenced a generation of theatre artists nationally and internationally.
		The Group's work is unique because it attracts not only the theatre-going community but also artists and enthusiasts of many other cultural disciplines, such as dance, painting, music, video and film.
	www.thewoostergroup.org /twg/about2.html (236 words)

	The Wooster Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wooster Group theatre pieces are constructed as assemblages of juxtaposed elements: radical staging of both modern and classic texts, found materials, films and videos, dance and movement, multi-track scoring, and an architectonic approach to theatre design.
		The Wooster Group has played a pivotal role in bringing technologically sophisticated and evocative uses of sound, film and video into the realm of contemporary theatre, and in the process has influenced a generation of theatre artists nationally and internationally.
		The Group's work is unique because it attracts not only the theatre-going community but also artists and enthusiasts of many other cultural disciplines, such as dance, painting, music, video and film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Wooster_Group (401 words)

	THE WOOSTER GROUP - Arts in Education
		Students often are paired with adult leaders (TWG associates and Summer Institute alumni) who participate in all events and exercises.
		The Wooster Group is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization; your contributions are tax-deductible and greatly appreciated.
		Each school year Wooster Group members and associates, led by Kate Valk, work with a variety of classes (ESL, social studies, drama) to develop games and exercises that interface with class curriculum and culminate in a final performance or video project.
	www.thewoostergroup.org /twg/artsed.html (254 words)

	Willem Dafoe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group.
		Born William Dafoe Jr., in Appleton, Wisconsin, the seventh of eight children, he acquired the nickname "Willem" in childhood.
		After touring with Theatre X for four years in the United States and Europe, he moved to New York City and joined the Performance Group, where he met director Elizabeth LeCompte.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willem_Dafoe (388 words)

	Wooster Group - New York, NY, 10013-2295 - Citysearch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mention the word "experimental" to most theater-lovers and the Wooster Group is probably the first name to come to mind.
		The Wooster Group has boasted nationally-known stars: Spalding Gray, who left the company to do television; Willem Dafoe, who also dabbles in film projects; and screen star Steve Buscemi, who's recently enlisted.
		But even star-crazed new converts soon realize that the real standouts of the Wooster Group are director Elizabeth LeCompte, the mastermind behind the group's imaginative staging, and actress Kate Valk, who outshines everyone when she takes the stage.
	newyork.citysearch.com /profile?id=7115291 (301 words)

	Artforum International: Wooster Group. (Reviews).(To You, The Birdie! )... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: )
		(Phedre), the Wooster Group's brilliant adaptation of Racine's seventeenthcentury drama of obsessive infatuation, rewritten for the troupe by Paul Schmidt in 1993.
		But rather than throw kicks at each other's heads, the men began to play: The shape of their athletic and elegant performance was determined by the powerful thrust it took for each to whip a "birdie" (as in badminton) at lightning speed through the air.
		Bound in ribbed corsetlike costumes that pressed their breasts skyward, Phedre and Oeonone (Frances McDormand, in her Wooster Group debut) paced back and forth, passing before and behind a plasma screen at the front of the stage as though moving in and out of Alice's looking glass.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:87453061&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (589 words)

	Wooster, David on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wooster resigned his commission upon the outbreak of the American Revolution, was one of the promoters of the Ticonderoga expedition (1775), and was made brigadier general in the Continental army.
		After the death of Richard Montgomery, Wooster was put in command (1776) of American forces at Quebec, but he was soon recalled by the Continental Congress because of his ineptitude.
		Wooster, commanding the Connecticut militia, was mortally wounded in battle near Danbury, Conn., against Tory raiders.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/e/e-w1oosterd1.asp (278 words)

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	Culture Shock: Flashpoints: Theater, Film, and Video: The Wooster Group's Route 1 and 9 (The Last Act)
		The Wooster Group's performance of Route 1 and 9 (The Last Act) drew protests for its use of flface, among other elements.
		The Wooster Group, a New York City performance company, comes together in the mid-1970s under the direction of Elizabeth LeCompte and actors Willem Dafoe, Spalding Gray, Peyton Smith, Kate Valk, and Ron Vawter.
		The Wooster Group goes on to produce acclaimed deconstructions of plays by Arthur Miller, Anton Chekhov, and Gertrude Stein.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/theater/wooster.html (442 words)

	College of Wooster: Human Resources (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The following are questions and answers regarding Wooster's new group medical plan based on meetings being held on campus during the week of January 22, 2001.
		A. A self-funded group medical plan is one in which the College assumes the financial risk for providing health care benefits to its employees.
		A. Wooster's plan will be administered by one of the five companies described in the information packet (Acordia, Cigna, JP Farley, General American, and Medical Mutual).
	www.wooster.edu /human_resources/medicalfaq.php (1689 words)

	ArtForum: Devil to play - Wooster Group
		A viper has bitten me, a bitter viper: The play on words, and the singsong turnabout repetition, instantly channel Gertrude Stein, but are also in key for the Wooster Group and their patented line of mutations of classic modern plays.
		All this has a Wooster Group history, as does the line's wit - and also its knowledge that something is wrong.
		Wooster productions generally fracture narrative, action, and speech so that the audience scatters its attention over the scene, never knowing quite where to look.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_8_37/ai_54454996 (593 words)

	Review of the Wooster Group's "Frank Dell's The Temptation of St. Antony" by Don Shewey
		Typical for the Wooster Group, what's most maddening about the work is also conceivably the most provocative: the way the narcissism and self-absorption of actors barely conceals a deep self-hatred.
		LeCompte's work with the Wooster Group has always subscribed to the values of postmodern architecture, as articulated by Robert Venturi: "richness and ambiguity over unity and clarity, contradiction and redundancy over harmony and simplicity." But it has never more stubbornly resisted easy apprehension.
		Where past Wooster Group pieces paid off the audience's attentiveness with more stripped-down structures and more exhilarating performances, Frank Dell's The Temptation of St. Antony is bound to be a puzzling, frustrating experience for devotees and novices alike.
	donshewey.com /theater_reviews/frank_dell.html (1443 words)

	To You The Birdie
		The comments were for a panel on Technology and Performance which formed part of a symposium on the work of the Wooster Group at the Cochrane Theatre London, 14-15 May 2002, organised by Andrew Quick and Adrian Streathfield.
		The Wooster group have a long history of folding these dispersed conditions back into the theatrical event, such that what is made to come together in the designated time and space of the performance is a visible and audible distribution and regathering of elements.
		Hippolytos (Ari Fliakos) and Theramenes (Scott Shepherd) ostentatiously wipe away the sweat from brow, crotch and arsecrack during their badminton; Phèdre's attempts to purge herself are literalised in the enemas to which she submits, while Oenone drowns herself, not in the sea, but in a bowl filled with enema-products.
	www.bbk.ac.uk /english/skc/birdie (1918 words)

	Poor Theatre, a CurtainUp review
		The Wooster Group has brought its tribute to the group's theatrical ancestor Jerzy Grotowski, contemporary dancemeister William Forsythe and visual artist Max Ernst to its home base in downtown New York, the Performing Garage.
		The Wooster Group, directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, applies its polished jaunty deconstructionalism to a two-part tribute to their theatrical ancestor Jerzy Grotowski and contemporary dancemeister William Forsythe in Poor Theatre: A Series of Simulacra.
		The Wooster Group's mandate is to dispense with façade, to strip theatre down to its quantum physics particles, to let the audience use artists' inspirations for its own construct.
	www.curtainup.com /woosterpoortheatre.html (937 words)

	Group innovates Greek myth
		The Wooster Group adds a racket and an abundance of humor to Racine's "Phedre" in its latest multimedia show, "To You, the Birdie!" directed by Elizabeth LeCompte.
		The Wooster Group researched what life was like in Paris in the 1800s and found that badminton was all the rage.
		The Wooster Group is considered to be one of the best theater companies in the United States because it can make the audience see things in a different, and often more interesting, light, by using multimedia resources.
	www.thelantern.com /main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=297181 (661 words)

	LIFT events - Wooster Group Company
		Indeed members of the Group all pursue independent careers, be it in the commercial world of film or exploring distinct avenues as solo performers or with their own companies, like Elevator Repair Service and The Builders’ Association.
		The Group is known for its singular approach to creating aphysical “score” for performers within a kinetic, technologicallysophisticated architectural environment.
		The Wooster Group is unique for its combination of aesthetic and political radicalism with intellectual rigour… [their work is] not the result of an anarchic haphazardly destructive impulse.
	www.liftfest.org.uk /lift03/archive/events2002/woostergroup/company.html (732 words)

	Argosarts.org - distribution (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Wooster Group's theatre work has been concerned with themes of paradox and ambiguity, of disjunction and continuity, of the collision and integration of cultures, of spiritual transformation and materialism, of repression and violence, of death and irretrievable loss, of social decay and regeneration and ultimately of the artist's place in society.
		The Wooster Group has developed and refined its ideas through an idiosyncratic work process: source texts and visual images are quoted, reworked and juxtaposed with fragments of popular culture, social history and personal events.
		Crucial to the Group's concept of acting and their approach to 'character' are Robert Bresson's principles on the subject collected in his 'Notes sur le cinématographe'.
	www.argosarts.org /catalogue.do?bio=40 (350 words)

	Location One \| PerformanceContemporary \| Wooster Group (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Wooster Group is an ensemble of artists who collaborate on the development and production of theater and media pieces.
		Since the early 1970's, The Wooster Group has played a pivotal role in bringing technically sophisticated and evocative uses of sound, film, and video into the realm of contemporary theater.
		The Wooster Group's members are Jim Clayburgh, Willem Dafoe, Spalding Gray, Elizabeth LeCompte, Peyton Smith, Kate Valk, and Ron Vawter.
	www.location1.org /artists/perf_contemp_wooster.htm (347 words)

	It was familial, incestuous, dysfunctional. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The 30-year story of the Wooster Group, the premier experimental-theater company in America, can be as melodramatic as a soap opera.
		In 1975, LeCompte launched a series of now-legendary plays—in effect the first Wooster Group productions—known as the Rhode Island Trilogy, in which Gray explored his childhood, his mother's suicide and the monologue form that he would eventually master.
		Willem Dafoe (Wooster Group founding member): When I first saw Liz, she was turning off the lights to start Rumstick Road and I was like, "Who is that?" I saw Spalding, but I was attracted to Liz.
	www.timeoutny.com /features/487/487.thewoostergroup.html (2820 words)

	"Elizabeth LeCompte's Last Stand?" -- feature on the Wooster Group's "Route 1&9" by Don Shewey
		Several months ago, when word filtered out that director Elizabeth LeCompte was using actors in flface and a homemade porno film to create a new piece with her company, the Wooster Group, people in the downtown theater scene wondered if she was determined to have her theater closed down.
		This work was originally conceived as a trilogy comprising Sakonnet Point, Rumstick Road, and Nayatt School, imagistic ensemble pieces exploring the interplay of family, art, religion, and madness as seen in the life of actor and personality Spalding Gray, who supplied the autobiographical impulse of the trilogy and appeared to be its unifying factor.
		For the Wooster Group, OUR TOWN is New York City, and perhaps they see themselves as earnest white bohemians sitting in Soho intensely analyzing the nature of art and reality while half the population around them are fl and third world people who might not give a shit about Mr.
	www.donshewey.com /theater_articles/wooster_route1&9.html (1568 words)

	Wooster Magazine
		Wooster Ambassadors for the 2003-04 year: Grace-Ann Lindsay ’04 of Jamaica, Zareef Huda ’05 of Bangladesh, Jai Sarr ’05 of The Gambia, Elina Ojanen ’04 of Israel, and Felipe Millán-Calhoun ’06 of Mexico.
		Welcome to the Ambassadors Program, in which a select group of Wooster international students share their culture with the campus and the community.
		In a fashion design class at Wooster High School, Jainaba Sarr ’05 points out her country, The Republic of The Gambia, on a map of Africa.
	www.wooster.edu /magazine/winter2004/bridging_cultures.php (718 words)

	group -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The elements in a group have similarities in the electronic configuration of their atoms, and thus they exhibit somewhat related physical and chemical properties.
		Comprising 36 coral and volcanic islands, the group has a total land area of 43 square miles (110 square km), dispersed over about 5,000 square miles (13,000 square km).
		The administrative headquarters and principal port in the group is Pangai, which is situated...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9038223?tocId=9038223 (761 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - To You, the Birdie! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		The Wooster Group is seeking at every turn to drain that essence away, to subvert it, by imagining what's going on underneath or in opposition to all the fancy words about love and suffering.
		Behind the Wooster Group's aesthetic is a distrust of -- even a contempt for -- the theater's tendency to naturalistically depict human feeling, and by doing so to evoke emotional responses in the audience.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117917092?categoryid=33&cs=1 (945 words)

	[Wilder-chat] Our Town influence (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Susannah, I did not see the Wooster Group's production of Rt 1/9 but I did read about it at some point doing research on Wilder.
		I believe it was in a book on the Wooster Group, the info for which I've pasted below.
		Lincoln Savran, David The Wooster Group, 1975-1985 : breaking the rules / by David Savran.
	three.pairlist.net /pipermail/wilder-chat/2002-November/000119.html (228 words)

	The Polenblog - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Polenberg Twins. » Can We Get Over Postmodernism ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Along with Richard Foreman and The Living Theater, The Wooster Group are one of NYC’s longest lived avant-garde theater companies, having produced nearly 20 shows over the last 30 years.
		This disrespect came not only through the fact that Gert was only read through a ‘funny voice’ filter, which could have been OK in another context, but read through the interleaved crappy 50s movie a fascinating text was brought down to the level of kitsch.
		The first Wooster production I saw, Can You Hear, Bird, succeeded on the level of spectacle, and I left the theater satisfied, though aware that I had not seen anything that allowed me to think about the text it was reinterpreting.
	www.polenblog.com /?p=24 (615 words)

	THEATER
		The title of this performance by the noted Wooster Group, POOR THEATER, refers to the title of the late Jerzy Grotowski's book, “Towards a Poor Theater”, in which he used the word “poor” to mean something like “stripped to the bare essentials”.
		The Wooster Group’s performance explores Grotowski’s desire - pursued through his highly influential Laboratory Theater in
		Like Grotowski the Wooster Group creates its performances through an extended process of gradual collaborative development.
	www.polishculture-nyc.org /wooster_more.htm (180 words)

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