The Group Theatre

Passion, Politics, and Performance in the Depression Era
2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-29459-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 283 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 5797 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

The Group Theatre, a groundbreaking ensemble collective, 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, based on over thirty years of research and interviews by the foremost theatre scholar of the time period, Helen Chinoy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chinoy, H.

Barranger, M.

Wilmeth, D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A Cautionary Tale PART I: PEOPLE 1. The Chosen Ones 2. Summertime and the Living is Collective PART II: PERFORMANCE 3. Early Rehearsals 4. Early Classes 5. Lee Strasberg: Artist of the Theater 6. Strasberg versus Adler 7. Testing the Theatrical 8. Harold Clurman: Author of the Stage Production 9. Odets in Clurman's Theater PART III: POLITICS 10. Art That Shoots Bullets 11. Pro Unit is Pro Group 12. Premature Feminists and the Boys 13. Organization, Angels, and Audiences 14. Who is the Group Theater? Epilogue: Survival of an Idea

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Krich Chinoy became one of our most distinguished American theater scholars and devoted over three decades to her study of the Group Theatre. This was a natural extension of a number of earlier projects, including the seminal Actors on Acting (1949) and Directors on Directing (1953), both still in print and co-edited with Toby Cole, and Women in American Theatre (1981), edited with Linda Walsh Jenkins. A Columbia University PhD, Helen spent most of her career at Smith College, USA. After her retirement, she held the Hoffman Eminent Scholar Chair in Theatre at Florida State University and the Harold Clurman Professorship at Hunter College, USA. In 1989 the Association for Theatre in Higher Education awarded her its Career Achievement Award.