
The Fervent Years
The Group Theatre And The Thirties
Harold Clurman(Author)
Da Capo Press Inc
Published on 22. March 1983
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-306-80186-0 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Hachette Books
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
497 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-306-80186-0 (9780306801860)
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Person
The lateHarold Clurman was the author of Lies Like Truth, The Naked Image, On Directing, The Divine Pastime, and All People Are Famous, and was the editor of numerous theatre anthologies.
Content
* 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