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"A straightforward, tasteful, and articulate account of what it is
to bring a play to palpitating life upon a stage" ("The New York
Times Book Review").
In this classic guide to directing, we are taken logically from the
choice of the play right through ever aspect of its production to
performances and beyond. Harold Clurman, director of such memorable
productions as "A Member of the Wedding" and "Uncle Vanya,"
describes the pleasures and perils of working with such celebrated
playwrights and actors as Marlon Brando, Arthur Miller, Julie
Harris, and Lillian Hellman. He also presents his own directing
notes for ten of his best-known productions.
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.
For six decades, Harold Clurman illuminated our artistic, social,
and political awareness in thousands of reviews, essays, and
lectures. His work appeared indefatigably in The Nation, The New
Republic, The London Observer, The New York Times, Harper's,
Esquire, New York Magazine, and more. The Collected Works of Harold
Clurman captures over six hundred of Clurman's encounters with the
most significant events in American theatre - as well as his
regular passionate embraces of dance, music, art and film. This
chronological epic offers the most comprehensive view of American
theatre seen through the eyes of our most extraordinary critic.
1102 pages, hardcover.
This classic collection—the only one-volume selection of Arthur Miller's work available—presents a rich cross section of writing from one of our most influential and humane playwrights, containing in full his masterpieces The Crucible and Death of a Salesman. This essential collection also includes the complete texts of After the Fall, The American Clock, The Last Yankee, and Broken Glass, winner of the Olivier Award for Best Play of 1995, as well as excerpts from Miller's memoir Timebends. An essay by Harold Clurman and Christopher Bigsby's introduction discuss Miller's standing as one of the greatest American playwrights of all time and his importance to twentieth-century literature.
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