Tectonic Theater Book Notes

  • Real architect of deconstruction is Mary Overlie 
    • She was the creator of the six viewpoints
  • Her approach was to divide a performance into parts 
    • Shape 
    • Time
    • Emotion
    • Movement
    • Story
  • She organized these into a pyramid in this order 
  • A performance is built up from a story or text 
  • Everything else is built around this 
  • Moises Kaufma and Jeffery LaHoste started tectonic theater in 1991 because they wanted to take theater in a different direction than others and they had professors at NYU that knew no one would hire them to pursue these different directions 
  •  During the early years of tectonic theater they developed a process of questioning called moment work
    • They used this to deepen their exploration of subject matter and stage vocabulary

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