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Is it time for theatre to leave 'avant garde' behind? by Alexis Soloski

Many of the terms we use to define dramatic success belong in the distant past. How to describe the freshest and most exciting work out there?Once upon a time, the "avant garde" didn't refer to art at all. It denoted the horse cavalry, the riders and their mounts who led the charge into battle. But just as the theatrical avant garde really got going, in the late decades of the 19th century and the early ones of the 2…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PM on May 18, 2011

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