The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0306801868 ISBN13: 9780306801860 Release Date: March 1983 Publisher: Da Capo Press Length: 352 Pages Weight: 0.55 lbs. Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4" The Group Theatre was perhaps the most significant experiment in the history of American theater. 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 theater, 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,