MIXED-MEANS THEATER

This was my epithet, in a book of that title, for performances that de-emphasize speech in the course of using a variety of means, including human bodies, lights, film, objects, and stagecraft. Even though the term did not become common parlance, I find it useful for encompassing pure Happenings, which were only certain kinds of participational pieces performed by Allan Kaprow , along with the film-based staged performances of Robert Whitman and the kinetic environments...