Series IV: Performance Group "Wooster Group"
Scope and Content
This series comprises files compiled by Brecht in the course of his research for his unfinished book on the Performance Group "Wooster Group." The research documents the Performance Group under the direction of Richard Schechner as well as their evolution into The Wooster Group with works of Spalding Grey, Elizabeth LaCompte, and others. The series includes interviews with Richard Schechner and Joan MacIntosh. Research files on the Living Theater and Open Theater are included in this series; Brecht may have been making an intended connection between them. The series contains notes, newspaper clippings, original scripts, correspondence, and ephemera including posters, tickets, and invitations organized by production. Material ranges from 1960s to 2000s. Interview transcripts can be found of correlating audio material.
"Based on Bacchae"- Richard Schechner's files [1 of 3], 1960, inclusive
Box: 20, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Based on Bacchae"- Richard Schechner's files [2 of 3], 1960, inclusive
Box: 20, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Based on Bacchae"- Richard Schechner's files [3 of 3], 1960, inclusive
Box: 20, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Choices : Making an Art of Everyday Life" by Marcia Tucker, 1986, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Situations of Confrontation" at the Performing Garage, February 6-8, 1986, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Leo Robin, [undated]
Box: 21, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Road to Immortality (Part Two)- L.S.D.", 1986, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Road to Immortality (Part Three)- The Temptation of Saint Anthony", January, 1986, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Road to Immortality (Part One)- Route 1 and 9", December 1986-January 1987, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Brecht's notes on race and anti-semitism], [undated]
Box: 21, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Platoon"- [articles], [1987], inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"First Law of Attraction"- Jim Strahs, January 6, 1987, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Wooster Group Newspaper Clippings], [undated]
Box: 21, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Wooster Group Articles], [undated]
Box: 21, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Hoodwink"- Nancy Reilly [and "LSD"], January-February, 1987, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Road to Immportality (Part III)- Frank Dell's St. Antony", April 25, 1987, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Road to Immportality (Part III)- Frank Dell's St. Antony"- Invitation-only performance, November 28, 1988, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Our Town", [1988], inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Interview- Joan MacIntosh [Brecht's Notes], June 29, 1985, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Interview- Richard Schechner [Brecht's Notes], April 3, 1986, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Interview- Richard Schechner [Transcript], April 3, 1986, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Interview- Joan MacIntosh [Transcript], March 22, 1986, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Interview- Richard Schechner [Transcript], March 12, 1986, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The "Free Southern Theatre", 1969, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The "Free Southern Theatre"- [correspondence], 1986, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The "Free Southern Theatre"- Richard Schechner and "The Prometheus Project", [1985-1986], inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Prometheus Project"- Richard Schechner, December, 1985, inclusive
Box: 21, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Free Southern Theater by The Free Southern Theater" edited by Thomas C. Dent, Richard Schechner, and Gilbert Moses, 1969, inclusive
Box: 22, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Back Bog Beast Bait"- Schechner directs Sam Shepard, December 6-23, 1973, inclusive
Box: 22, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Cowboys No. 2"- Schechner directs Sam Shepard, 1973, inclusive
Box: 22, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Killer's Head, Action"- Schechner directs Sam Shepard, [undated]
Box: 22, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Five Plays by Sam Shepard ; Chicago, Icarus's Mother, Red Cross, Fourteen Hundred Thousand, Melodrama Play" [book published by Faber and Faber], 1967, inclusive
Box: 22, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Best of Off Off-Broadway" edited by Michael Smith [book published by E.P. Dutton & co.], 1969, inclusive
Box: 22, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Sam Shepard: Mad Dog Blues & Other Plays" edited by Michael Feingold [book published by Winter House], 1972, inclusive
Box: 22, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Unseen Hand and Other Plays" by Sam Shepard [book published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.], 1972, inclusive
Box: 22, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"La Turista : a play in two acts" by Sam Shepard with an introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick [book published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. with La Turista materials from The American Palace Theater], 1968, inclusive
Box: 22, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Operation Sidewinder : a play in two acts" by Sam Shepard [book published by The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc.], 1970, inclusive
Box: 22, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Performance 5" vol. 1 no. 5 [includes Sam Shepard's script for "The Tooth of Crime"], March/April, 1973, inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"House/Lights", February, 1998, inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Emperor Jones", February, 1993, inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"North Atlantic" [William DeFoe], [1999-2001], inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Hairy Ape", [1997-2001], inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Fish Story Part I and Part II", [1983-1994], inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ron Vawter [articles], [1992-1993], inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Marianne Weems- [book proposal], February 25, 1994, inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Spalding Gray- "Morning, Noon, and Night", "Gray's Anatomy", "Monster in a Box", [undated]
Box: 23, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Brace Up!"- "Three Sisters", January, 1991, inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Annie Sprinkle, February, 1991, inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Spalding Gray [articles and clippings], [undated]
Box: 23, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Articles on the Wooster Group], 1990-1992, inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Alice in Bed" [and Richard Schechner], [1991, undated]
Box: 23, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Olga's "House of Shame"- [letter from Something Weird Video], October, 1998, inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Richard Schechner transcript of lecture at NYU- "Dionysus in '69 and '91", March 19, 1991, inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"First Love" [articles], 2001, inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"To You, The Birdie! (Phedre)" [1 of 3], 2002, inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"To You, The Birdie! (Phedre)" [typescript copyright 1993] [2 of 3], 2002, inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"To You, The Birdie! (Phedre)" [3 of 3], 2002, inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"To You, The Birdie! (Phedre)" [Brecht's notepad], 2002, inclusive
Box: 23, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Performance Group [clippings and 'Other Stages' vol. 4 no. 9][1 of 8], 1975, inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Performance Group [articles][2 of 8], [1975-1981], inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Performance Group- "Three by Gray", "The Balcony", "Point Judith" [3 of 8], [1975-1982], inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Performance Group- "Three by Gray", "The Balcony", "Point Judith" [4 of 8], [undated]
Box: 24, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Performance Group- "Point Judith" [5 of 8], January, 1980, inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Performance Group- "Point Judith" and "The Last Act : A Revival" [6 of 8], [undated]
Box: 24, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Performance Group- "The Last Act: A Revival" [7 of 8], March, 1981, inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Performance Group- "Request Concert" [8 of 8], 1981, inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Other Stages" vol. 3 no. 14, 1981 and "Other Stages" vol. 5 no. 12, 1983 [with clippings], [1981-1983], inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"LSD (Part I)", January, 1983, inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Route 1 and 9", November 1981-Summer 1982, inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Thilm" by Lita Eliscu from EVO vol. 3 no. 52 [article], November 29, 1968, inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
[Articles on "LSD" "Route 1 and 9" and "The Crucible"], 1985, inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Miss Universal Happiness"- [Richard Foreman], May 15, 1985, inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"L.S.D." and "The Crucible"- [Arthur Miller dispute] [articles], [1983-1985], inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"North Atlantic", January 20, 1984, inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Swimming to Cambodia" [and "The Killing Fields"], December 1984-January 1985], inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Sex and Death to the Age of 14"- [Spalding Gray], April 20-May 26, 1979, inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Wooster Group: A Brief History"- Press Release, June, 1985, inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Rumstick Road"- Spalding Gray, 1977-1979, inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Nyatt School"- [Spalding Gray and Elizabeth LaCompte], 1978-1979, inclusive
Box: 24, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Sakonnet Point", "Three Places in Rhode Island", "A Wing and A Prayer", 1975, 1978, inclusive
Box: 25, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Oedipus", "Cops", 1977-1978, inclusive
Box: 25, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Mother Courage"- Richard Schechner, January-June, 1975, inclusive
Box: 25, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Tooth of Crime" revival and "The Marilyn Project", 1975-1976, inclusive
Box: 25, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Living Theatre- "Revolution at the Brooklyn Academy of Music" [article by Stefan Brecht] [1 of 5], [undated]
Box: 25, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Living Theatre- [reperatory and articles] [2 of 5], [undated]
Box: 25, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Living Theatre- [letter from Julian Beck to Stefan Brecht] [3 of 5], September 12, 1974, inclusive
Box: 25, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Living Theatre- "The Living Theatre at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Spring of 1973" [4 of 5], 1973, inclusive
Box: 25, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Living Theatre- "Seven Meditations" [5 of 5], 1973, inclusive
Box: 25, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Open Theatre- [Jerome Chaikin- "The Mutations Show"], [1973], inclusive
Box: 25, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Dionysus in 69, from Euripides' The Bacchae The Performance Group" [article by Stefan Brecht], Spring, 1968, inclusive
Box: 25, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Richard Schechner- "The Tooth of Crime" [1 of 2], [1973]
Box: 25, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Richard Schechner- "The Tooth of Crime" [2 of 2], [1973]
Box: 25, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Performance Group and Michael McClure [1 of 2], October, 1973-January, 1974, inclusive
Box: 25, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Performance Group and Michael McClure [with annotated typescript of "The Beard"] [2 of 2], October, 1973-January, 1974, inclusive
Box: 25, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Andre Gregory's Manhattan Project- "Alice in Wonderland" and "Endgame", [1973]
Box: 25, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Grotowski's production of The Constant Prince" [article by Stefan Brecht], [undated]
Box: 25, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
