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Ana Fernández-Caparrós Turina
En la década de los sesenta una serie de factores socioculturales, políticos y económicos favorecieron la emergencia de un circuito teatral underground localizado entre el Village y el Lower East Side de Nueva York. Si bien se trató de un movimiento contracultural efímero y que respondía a los avatares de un momento histórico muy concreto, su vitalidad sería determinante al promover el trabajo de autores (como Shepard, Wilson, Fornes, etc.) cuyas experimentaciones serían fundamentales para la consolidación del teatro norteamericano contemporáneo. Fue la conciencia de la pertenencia a una comunidad urbana con una idiosincrasia propia y la lucha por legitimarla lo que impulsó que una serie de personas quisieran promover el trabajo de autores teatrales que reflejaran y exploraran esa experiencia urbana; por ello, se analizará cómo estas obras respondieron a este entorno a través de experimentaciones estéticas transgresoras, que no eran sino fruto de una incondicionada libertad de expresión
During the Sixties there were a series of social, cultural, political and economic factors that led to the emergence of an underground theatre movement localized in New York's Greenwich Village and Lower East Side. This counter-cultural theatre was born under very specific historical conditions, (coinciding with the rise of the Civil Right's movement, the emergence of youth culture, etc.), and it only lasted for several years. Yet, its vitality would turn out to be essential in the development of contemporary American Drama in promoting the work of young playwrights such as Shepard, Wilson or Fornes, whose experimentations opened the way for future generations of dramatists. One of the key elements in order to understand the emergence and promotion of the playwright's work is the notion of community, that is, the acknowledgement of the importance of belonging to an urban community; this paper will thus explore in which ways did the urban context shape an often transgressive aesthetic experience characterized by an unconditional freedom of expression
