The fervent years : the Group Theatre and the thirties
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The fervent years : the Group Theatre and the thirties
（A Da Capo paperback）
Da Capo Press, [1983] c1975
- pbk.
Available at 3 libraries
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Group Theatre was perhaps the most significant experiment in the history of American theatre. 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 theatre, 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 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, 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.
Table of Contents
* Introduction to the Da Capo /Perseus Books Group Edition Seeds * The Tower of Babel * First Steps * Getting Together Beginners * Honeymoon * Hallelujah! * Growth * Ferment * Hard Going Second Wind * The Winter of Our Discontent * Success * Transition Consummation * Awake and Sing * Complications * Treading Water * Millennial Interlude * Breakdown New Phase * We Run for Cover * Renewal * Era of Plenty * High Point Farewell to the Thirties * Ebb Tide * Collapse * And Now * Epilogue: 1945-1955 * Epilogue: 1974
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