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3 unusual facts about The Performance Group


The Performance Group

After 1975, tensions led to Schechner's resignation in 1980, and the troupe reinvented itself as The Wooster Group under the leadership of director and theatre artist Elizabeth LeCompte.

In 1975, some members began to develop their own productions, led by Spalding Gray and Elizabeth LeCompte.

The Performance Group (TPG) was a New York City troupe of experimental theater started by Richard Schechner in 1967.



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Clive Fencott

He later worked with Bob Cobbing, and also with cris cheek and Lawrence Upton in the performance group JGJGJG, of which he was a founder member.

Richard Schechner

With The Performance Group Schechner directed many productions including Dionysus in 69 based on Euripides' The Bacchae (1968), Makbeth based on Shakespeare's Macbeth (1969), Commune group devised piece (1970), Sam Shepard's The Tooth of Crime (1972), Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children (1975), David Gaard's The Marilyn Project (1975), Seneca's Oedipus (1977), Terry Curtis Fox's Cops (1978), and Jean Genet's The Balcony (1979).