The Fervent Years - The Group Theatre and the Thirties (Paperback, New Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Da Capo Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1983
First published:	March 1983
Authors:	Harold Clurman
Dimensions:	220 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	329
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-306-80186-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Music > General Promotions
LSN:	0-306-80186-8
Barcode:	9780306801860

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