... that its avant-garde poets, painters, and sculptors led against the conformist demands and... the rigid, oppressive forces of traditional standards"4. In his essay Avant Garde Theatre Sound, Adrian Curtin outlines exactly how this anarchistic avant-garde approach then impacted Futurist theatre fifteen years later, "these avant- ... their plays, the notion of utopian (per)form(ing) was crucial in bringing the plays to life. This theme is explored by Jill Dolan in her essay Utopia in Performance, wherein she outlines the formal aspects of representing utopia "in the performer's grace, in th...

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