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From La Carpa to the Classroom:

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From La Carpa to the Classroom:

[Thesis]

Sloan, Dennis

The Chicano Theatre Movement and Actor Training in the United States

Chambers, Jonathan, PhD

Bowling Green State University

2020

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Ph.D.

Bowling Green State University

2020

The historical narrative of actor training has thus far been limited to the history of Eurocentric actor training. Put another way, it has been predominantly white. While the history of actor training has been understudied in general, the history of training for actors of color has been almost non-existent. Yet scholars including Alison Hodge and Mark Evans have made direct links between actor training and both the evolution of theatre and the development of personal, artistic, and socio-political worldviews. Since the recorded history of actor training focuses almost exclusively on white practitioners, however, this history privileges the experiences and perspectives of white practitioners over those of color. Rooted in the argument that a history of actor training based so exclusively on whiteness is incomplete and inaccurate, this dissertation explores the history of actor training for Latinx actors, especially those who participated in and came out of the Chicanx Theatre Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and who went on to engage in other training programs afterwards. Relying primarily on original archival research, I document multifaceted attempts to train Latinx actors in the United States in the mid- to late twentieth century.

Actor training

Chicano theatre

Hispanic theatre

Latino theatre

Latinx theatre

Valdez, Luis

Chambers, Jonathan, PhD

Sloan, Dennis

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