1. French Anarchism and Italian Futurism: 1890-1920
... in 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, gave ... pioneered this particular aesthetic, and although anarchist theatre featured little such technological direction, Octave Mirbeau's text 'La 628-E8' (1907), although not a play, partly prefigures these themes, as C...
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