Fervent Years : The Group Theatre and the Thirties

English

Series: Quality Paperbacks Ser.

ISBN: 0306801868

EAN: 9780306801860

Category: Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism

Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated

Release Date: 04/30/1988

Synopsis: The Group Theatre was perhaps the most significant experiment in the history of American theater. Producing plays that reflected topical issues of the decade and giving a creative chance to actors, directors, and playwrights who were either fed up with or shut out of commercial theater, the Group remains a permanent influence on American drama despite its brief ten-year life. It was here that method acting, native realism, and political language had their tryouts in front of audiences who anticipatedindeed demandeda departure from the Broadway show-biz tradition. In this now classic account, Harold Clurman, founder of the Group Theatre and a dynamic force as producer-director-critic for fifty years, here re-creates history he helped make with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, Irwin Shaw, Clifford Odets, Cheryl Crawford, Morris Carnovsky, and William Saroyan. Stella Adler contributed a new introduction to this edition which remembers Clurman, the thirties, and the heady atmosphere of a tumultuous decade.

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Fervent Years : The Group Theatre and the Thirties

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Format: Paperback

Height: 0.81 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.5 inches

Weight: 15.03 oz

Pages: 352