The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780306801860)

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, 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.

Author: Harold Clurman
ISBN-10: 0306801868
ISBN-13: 9780306801860
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 03/22/1983
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d