Experimental drama

found: Baldick, C. The Oxford dict. of literary terms, 2008(experimentalism. The commitment to exploring new concepts and representations of the world through methods that go beyond the established conventions of literary tradition. Experimentalism was an important characteristic of 20th-century literature and art, in which successive avant-garde movements arose in continual reaction against what they regarded as decayed or ossified forms of expression. For examples, see Dada, expressionism, futurism, modernism, nouveau roman, surrealism, vorticism.)

found: Wikipedia, Nov. 15, 2012(Experimental theatre is a general term for various movements in Western theatre that began in the late 19th century with Alfred Jarry and his Ubu plays as a rejection of both the age in particular and, in general, the dominant ways of writing and producing plays. The term has shifted over time as the mainstream theatre world has adopted many forms that were once considered radical. It is used more or less interchangeably with the term avant-garde theatre. Experimental theatre is what it is, namely trying something new.)

found: A companion to twentieth-century American drama, 2005, via WWW, Nov. 15, 2012:chapter 33, summary (The following chapter focuses on experimental drama in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s, with occasional references to previous decades when it is important to show the legacy influencing an artist or work. By 'experimental,' I am trying to cover a wide variety of dramatists working outside the aesthetic of psychological realism, its familiar settings of home and work, and its predominantly linear forms of narrative and dialogue)

found: Modern French theatre : the avant-garde, Dada, and surrealism : an anthology of plays, 1966:p. xxvii (the avant-garde drama of today)

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