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This article uses a complex commentary to a recent book dedicated to the underground theatrical movement of the sixties (Stephen J. Bottoms, Playing Underground. A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2006) as foundation for a comparative approach. The Romanian and American theatrical aesthetics and the experimental aptitudes and synchronizations are subjects of a close investigation in terms of playwriting and stage directing, even if the distances and the social-political differences seem to make such a mirror-like venture - more or less / unpractical. The landscape the comparatistic essay offers – in terms of plays, repertoire, theatrical styles or audiences – is nearly hallucinating, but speaks also about a strangely common need of the “freedom of expression” definition, in both arts and political fields.Welcome to the sixties!

Keywords: theatre, playwriting, directing, the 60s