1. French Anarchism and Italian Futurism: 1890-1920
... 1890. As well as containing anarchistic-utopian content in the narrative of a strike, the play was equally a landmark in the style of its audience-engaging performance, as Cecilia Beach notes: La Grève was not performed in isolation, but as part of a participatory cultural and political event. Between the prologue and the first act, Leboucher, an anarchist orator, ... 1917 and resultantly the movement's foundation as a political party in 1918. Nevertheless, the importance of mechanisation on the Futurist theatrical aesthetic is reflected in the fact that Marinetti wrote a second theatre...
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