The Group Theatre - Passion, Politics, and Performance in the Depression Era (Hardcover, New)

The Group Theatre, a groundbreaking ensemble collective based in New York that operated from 1931 to 1941, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what became known as Method Acting. This book is the definitive history of the group, based on more than thirty years of research and interviews by the foremost theatre scholar of the time period, Helen Chinoy. She begins the story of the Group's remarkable ten years at the end of the experiment, then resets the narrative against the Depression years and introduces the cast of youthful characters and their issues with the American theatre of their day. Tracing the careers of Group Theatre actors and directors including Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, and Harry Morgan, Chinoy follows with their collective vision for a new theatre developed around their grand idea for a new approach to an acting process based on an ordered training of the actor's imagination and emotions in exercises and in plays that confront social issues important to the Group.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	2013
Editors:	H. Chinoy
Authors:	Helen Krich Chinoy
Editors:	D. Wilmeth • M. Barranger
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	283
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-29459-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General
LSN:	1-137-29459-0
Barcode:	9781137294593

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