Environmental and Artaudian theater practices were transplanted into Black nationalist drama

Evidence

Moses and Richard Schechner, who had been involved with the FST, were colleagues, and Moses adapted some of Schechner’s ideas regarding environmental theater. He also brought in the Senegalese Dance Company to drill the cast and a linguist from the Olatunji Center for African Culture to teach them Yoruba. His direction of Slave Ship (for which he received an Obie) pushed beyond Dionysus in ’ and stood the Artaudian theater of Paradise Now on its head. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1499

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates what ‘environmental theater’ meant in practice — audience placement and total immersion.