Megan Terry (born July 22, 1932) is an American

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, and theatre artist. She has produced over fifty works for theater, radio, and television, and is best known for her avant-garde theatrical work from the 1960s. As a founding member of

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, she developed an actor-training and character-creation technique known as "transformation". She used this technique to create her 1966 work ''

Viet Rock ''Viet Rock'' is a rock musical by Megan Terry that served as inspiration to the musical ''Hair''. A violent denunciation of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, the play was described by its author as a "folk war movie" comprising scenes ...

'', which was both the first

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and the first play to address the war in Vietnam.

Life and work

Early life and education

She was born, as Marguerite Duffy, to Marguerite (née Henry) and

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Harold Joseph in

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. She first showed an interest in the theatre after attending a play at the age of seven. She wrote, "I went and I looked at the stage and I fell madly in love... I knew I wanted to do that, whatever it was." As a child, she wrote, directed, and designed sets for productions staged in the backyard of her family's home, earning her the nicknames "Tallulah Blackhead" and "Sarah Heartburn" from her father. He was not pleased by her interest in theatre. After years of participating in school plays, Terry became a member of the Seattle Repertory Playhouse during her senior year in high school. The liberal politics and activist attitudes of the company's directors, Florence and Burton James, had an effect on her view of theatre in society. She has credited their influence, as well as the 1951 closure of the Seattle Repertory Playhouse under pressure from the

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, for her later use of

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on stage. Terry went on to earn a scholarship to the

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, where she received certificates in theatre directing, design, and acting. While there, she took psychology and sociology courses at the

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, and served as technical director for the Edmonton Children's Theater, where she became interested in theatre as a tool for youth education. Midway through her degree program, Terry was forced to return to Seattle when her grandfather became seriously ill. She finished her degree at the

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, where she was awarded a

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degree in 1952. After graduation, she decided to focus on theatre for children and began teaching at Seattle's oldest performance conservatory, the Cornish School of Allied Arts. She also organized her first ensemble, the Cornish Players. At this time, she was writing a series of controversial short plays for youth dealing with issues like sex and politics, and adopted a

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to shield her professional career as a playwright from her more conservative colleagues. She chose the name Megan because it was the

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root for Marguerite, and Terry in homage to the nineteenth-century actress

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New York City, The Open Theater, and ''Viet Rock''

Terry faced backlash for the edginess of her earliest plays, ''Beach Grass and Go out'' (1955) and ''Move the Car'' (1955). She became increasingly frustrated with creative and political restraint in the Seattle theatre community, and decided to move to New York City. Once there, she continued writing plays dealing with social and political issues, including ''The Magic Realist'' (1960), which uses

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techniques to

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the inequity of a capitalistic economic power structure on individuals, families, and criminal justice, and ''Ex-Miss Copper Queen on a Set of Pills'', the story of an ex-

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who has begun working as a

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to support her

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. ''Ex-Miss Copper Queen on a Set of Pills'' opened in 1963 at Edward Albee's Playwrights Unit Workshop. Despite the success of these early productions, Terry had to support herself by working as an actress in television serials. In her free time, she began forming connections in the theatre community, including with fellow playwright

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and director

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. Chaikin was then working with

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. Terry and Chaikin, together with Peter Feldman and Barbara Vann, founded

in 1963. The Open Theater was a

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that progressed from a closed experimental laboratory to an ensemble. The Open Theatre used the methods of the worldwide collective theater movement and was particularly inspired by the work of the acting teacher,

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, and the innovator of theater games,

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. Along with her colleagues at The Open Theater, Terry began working on exercises to produce a new kind of collaborative performance based on a "radical program of communal engagement in the nonhierarchical and collaborative ensemble" that viewed the concept of a "play" as a continuing process rather than an end product. The resulting productions exhibited sudden changes in mood, time, or character meant to disrupt the audience's sense of immersion and focus on creating a changing emotional state. These techniques resulted in a theatre experience that feminist scholar Rebecca Bell-Metereau described as filled with "... earthy language, sexual and political content, musical segments, humor, and vaudeville touches

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all blend to create lively, dynamic experiences for audiences." Terry's most significant contribution to The Open Theatre's growing repertoire of exercises was "transformation", in which the actors would improvise overheard dialogue in an effort to "transform" into characters coping with various situations. These exercises fueled Terry's work as she and the company produced such plays as ''Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place'' at the

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and ''Gloaming, Oh My Darling'' at the Martinique Theater, both in 1965. The self-guided theatre experiments were cut short by the ensemble's outrage at the

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' decision to go to war with Vietnam. In protest, Terry and her ensemble began work on what would become ''

'': As the first

to be written and performed in the United States, and the first play to address America's involvement in Vietnam, ''Viet Rock'' was a landmark production for both The Open Theater and Terry as a playwright. The collectively-created piece evolved from workshop improvisations in The Open Theater laboratory, with music by

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. The musical premiered

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and had a preview run at the

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before opening

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at the Martinique Theatre on November 10, 1966. Terry described ''Viet Rock'' as a "folk war movie" about the "futilities and irrelevancies" of war and the "nightmares, fantasies, regrets, terrors, confusions" of the Vietnam War. ''Viet Rock'' conveys "the bombardment of impressions we get from the mass media" along with firsthand testimonials about the war. Following the lives of seven soldiers on the

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s, the predominantly female cast juxtaposed intimate scenes, like a boy crawling on his belly and saying, "I can't wait till I get there and make a killing on the black market!" with actors performing up-tempo rock numbers like "Let's go gay with L.B.J.!" Similar to the "transformation" exercises done earlier in workshops, ''Viet Rock'' collected the personal stories of

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s and incorporated them into a satirical antiwar testimonial with a

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soundtrack. Richard Schechner described ''Viet Rock'' as "Elizabethan in scope and tone" and compared the technique used by Open Theatre to that of

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. Some praised the vigor of the play's social protest, while others did not. ''

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'' critic

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called the musical "truly distressing" and "an essentially thoughtless from-the-gut-only noise." Cast member

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borrowed Terry's anti-war theme, improvisational technique, and rock and roll aesthetic to create the musical ''

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'' with fellow actor

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. Canadian playwright

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noted, "It is fair to say that ''Viet Rock'' was unrivaled in popularity on Off-Off-Broadway until the advent of the rock musical that was directed by the same man, the rock musical that appeared to take the world by storm: ''Hair''."

Later career

Following the mixed reviews of ''Viet Rock'', which was translated and produced internationally, Terry left New York and The Open Theater. She moved to

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and became the

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for Minneapolis'

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, where she had previously been a Rockefeller Fellow during the development of ''Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place''. For several years, she split her time between theatre in Minnesota and commissions for television and public radio, including the program ''Home: Or Future Soap'' (1968). She did return to New York City to develop new plays such as ''Changes'' (1968) at

, ''St. Hydro Clemency'', and ''Massachusetts Trust'', all directed by

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. ''Approaching Simone'' (1970), Terry's play about the twentieth-century French feminist philosopher Simone Weil, won the 1969/1970

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for Best Off-Broadway Play. Terry took a stronger interest in

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after the production of ''Approaching Simone'' and began working to increase the visibility of women in theatre. Along with Fornes,

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, Julie Bovasso,

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, and Rochelle Owens, Terry founded New York's Women's Theater Council in 1972. Though the council was short-lived, it served as a

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organization early in the development of 1970's

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, and facilitated the authorship of numerous important feminist plays. While in New York, Terry reconnected with Chaikin and The Open Theater to work with fellow playwrights

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and

Jean-Claude van Itallie Jean-Claude van Itallie (May 25, 1936 – September 9, 2021) was a Belgian-born American playwright, performer, and theatre workshop teacher. He is best known for his 1966 anti-Vietnam War play ''America Hurrah;'' ''The Serpent'', an ensemble pl ...

on the company's final production, ''Nightwalk'', in 1973. Following this production, Terry again left New York and settled at the

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, where she remained as playwright-in-residence and literary manager for the remainder of her career. In recognition of her achievements and innovations in the theatre, Terry was elected to lifetime membership in the

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in 1994. Her other awards have included the 1983 Dramatists Guild Award, an Academy of Theatre Arts Silver Medal for "distinguished contributions to, and service in, the American theatre", a Yale and a

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, a

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, two

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grants, and a

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literature fellowship. Her papers are kept at the

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and at the

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. Many of her plays are available from Alexander Street Press, and some are available at the

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Drama Library.

Selected works

Theatre

* 1955: ''Beach Grass -''

* 1955: ''Go Out and Move the Car -''

* 1955: ''Seascape -''

* 1961: ''New York Comedy -''

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* 1963: ''Ex-Miss Copper Queen on a Set of Pills -''

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* 1963: ''Eat at Joe's -''

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*1963: ''When My Girlfriend Was Still All Flowers'' -

*1964: ''Calm Down Mother'' -

*1965: ''Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool, Dry Place'' - Firehouse Theatre,

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* 1966: ''The Magic Realists'' -

and

* 1966: ''Comings and Goings'' -

* 1966: ''In the Gloaming, Oh My Darling'' - Martinique Theater * 1966: '' Viet Rock: A Folk War Movie'' (music by

) -

and Martinique Theater and

(published by Broadway Play Publishing in ''Plays by Megan Terry)'' * 1967: ''The People vs. Ranchman'' -

(produced by the Firehouse Theatre, Minneapolis) *1968: ''Massachusetts Trust'' - Spingold Theater,

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*1968: ''Changes'' - directed by

*1968: ''Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place'' -

* 1970: ''Approaching Simone -''

and Boston University Theater, Boston, Massachusetts (published by Broadway Play Publishing in ''Plays by Megan Terry)'' * 1973: ''Couplings and Groupings'' * 1973: ''Nightwalk'' (with

and

) -

*1974: ''Babes In The Bighouse'' - Magic Theater,

(published by Broadway Play Publishing in ''Plays by Megan Terry)'' * 1974: ''Hothouse'' *1974: ''Calm Down Mother'' and ''The Gloaming, Oh My Darling'' -

La MaMa Archives Digital Collections
"Production: ''Calm Down Mother'' and ''The Gloaming, Oh My Darling'' (1974)". Accessed August 14, 2018.
/ref> * 1978: ''American King's English for Queens'' * 1979: ''Attempted Rescue on Avenue B: A Beat Fifties Comic Opera'' * 1979: ''Goona Goona'' - Magic Theater,

(published by Broadway Play Publishing) * 1982: ''Molly Bailey's Traveling Family Circus: Featuring Scenes from the Life of Mother Jones'' * 1985: ''Objective Love I -'' Magic Theater,

(published by Broadway Play Publishing, 2012) *1990-1992: ''Star Path Moon Stop -'' written and toured for

*1995: ''No Kissing in Hall'' - commissioned by J. Larson of Rose Theatre,

Television

* 1955: ''The Dirt Boat'' -

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*1968: ''Home or Future Soap'' (directed by

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) - Channel 13 NYC * 1969: ''One More Little Drinkie'' - Channel 13 NYC

Radio plays

* 1968: ''Sanibel and Captiva'' (

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produced on national radio by PBS-Boston) * 1972: ''American Wedding Ritual Monitored/Transmitted by the Planet Jupiter'' * 1974: ''Home: Or Future Soap''

References

External links

Terry's page on La MaMa Archives Digital Collections
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