The fervent years : the Group Theatre and the thirties
by Harold Clurman
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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 show more anticipated--indeed demanded--a 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, 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.--From publisher description. show lessTags
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- The fervent years : the Group Theatre and the thirties
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- 1945
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir, Music
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- 792.0973 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Stage presentations modified standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography; Description, critical appraisal of specific theatres and companies North America United States
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- PN2297 .G7 .C5 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Dramatic representation. The theater Special regions or countries
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