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The fervent years : the Group Theatre and the thirties / Harold Clurman ; new introduction by Stella Adler.
LIBRA PN2297.G7 C5 1983 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clurman, Harold, 1901-1980.
- Series:
- Da Capo paperback
- A Da Capo paperback
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group Theatre (U.S.).
- Theater--United States--History--20th century.
- Theater.
- United States.
- History.
- Clurman, Harold, 1901-1980.
- Clurman, Harold.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 329 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Da Capo Press, [1983]
- Summary:
- 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 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.
- Contents:
- Seeds
- Beginners
- Second wind
- Consummation
- New phase
- Farewell to the thirties.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0306801868
- 9780306801860
- OCLC:
- 9131721
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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