WILSON, Robert

An American theatrical artist trained in visual art, Wilson knew from the beginning that his theater would emphasize image and movement over scripts. His early works also revealed a predisposition toward thinking big—using larger theaters, more performers, and larger props (requiring greater funding) than his predecessors in nonliterary theater did. Much more abundant in some respects, Wilson’s theater broached unprecedented slowness in the movements of the principal performers. Wilson also used...