1. French Anarchism and Italian Futurism: 1890-1920
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-gardists did not wish to maintain theatre as a rareļ¬ed space that keeps the world outside the darkened auditorium at a remove. ... Therefore, the play is composed of three absurdly short 'Acts' wherein the same man and woman have three mundane conversations, and both suddenly die (presumably of boredom) at the end, the play taking no more than a few minutes to complete. ...
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