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City University of New York (CUNY)

Publications and Research

2020

Nuclear disarmament; anti-nuclear activism; avant-garde; political theatre; experimental theatre

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Mabou Mines’ Dead End Kids And Performing Artists For Nuclear Disarmament, Hillary Miller Jan 2020

Mabou Mines’ Dead End Kids And Performing Artists For Nuclear Disarmament, Hillary Miller

Publications and Research

Performance studies scholar and theater historian Hillary Miller offers a new study of the 1980 production of Dead End Kids: A History of Nuclear Power by the New York-based avant-garde theater collective, Mabou Mines. Through a close reading of the play, Miller explores the relationship between this production and the little researched organization, Performing Artists for Nuclear Disarmament (PAND), revealing the correlations between collaboratively-generated theater practices and concurrent protest movements.