The Fervent Years
Author | : Harold Clurman |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1983-03-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 0306801868 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780306801860 |
Rating | : 4/5 (860 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Fervent Years written by Harold Clurman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1983-03-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.