Experimenters, Rebels, and Disparate Voices

The Theatre of the 1920s Celebrates American Diversity
Herausgeber: Gewirtz, Arthur; Kolb, James

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Produktbeschreibung

The theatre and drama of the 1920s reflect a synergy of art, glitter, and glitz-a decade of great mainstream playwrights and a flourishing popular and commercial theatre, but it was also a decade in which discontented artists and a variety of people on the margins of American society could find a means of expressing their views. Gewitz and Kolb assemble 20 essays that reflect recent scholarship and research, focusing on generally unknown or ignored aspects of the decade: John Howard Lawson's polemics, especially in his most important play, Processional, his proclivity for using jazz and mixing the devices of popular theatre with serious drama, and his collaborations with the maverick designer Mordecai Gorelik; the first appearances of serious African-American drama, including discussions of African-American theatre critics and the work of dramatists Wallace Thurman, Garland Anderson, Willis Richardson, Frank Wilson, Angela Weld Grimke, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Myrtle Smith Livington, and Marita Bonner; the problematic depictions of African-Americans and other non-native characters on the stage; contributions of women artists and playwrights such as Eva Le Gallienne, Sophie Treadwell, and Susan Glaspell; and the search for new possibilities in theatre and set design, including an examination of the little-known Jane Heap, editor of The Little Review and a lesbian modernist who presented a pivotal International Theatre Expositon in 1926. An important resource for scholars, students, and other researchers of 20th-century American theatre and drama.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780313324666
• ISBN-10: 0313324662
• Artikelnr.: 22053461

Autorenporträt

ARTHUR GEWIRTZ is Associate Professor of English Emeritus at Hofstra University. Among his earlier publications is Restoration Adaptations of Early 17th-Century Comedies. JAMES J. KOLB is Professor of Drama at Hofstra University. He is a frequent stage director and a regular lecturer on American musical theatre.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Arthur Gewirtz and James J. Kolb Experimenters, Rebels, and
Disparate Voices Searching for "The Big American Play": The Theatre Guild
Produces John Howard Lawson's Processional by Beverle Bloch The
Idiosyncratic Theatre of John Howard Lawson by John Shout Glitzing the
Proletariat: John Howard Lawson's Plays of the 1920s by Michael C. O'Neill
Direction by Design(er): Robert Edmond Jones and The New Provincetown
Players by Jane T. Peterson Glitter, Glitz, and Race: The Production of
Harlem by Freda Scott Giles Disparate Voices: African-American Theatre
Critics of the 1920s by Freda Scott Giles Garland Anderson and Appearances:
The Playwright and His Play by Alan Kreizenbeck The First Serious Dramas on
Broadway by African-American Playwrights by Jeanne-Marie A. Miller Theatre
and Community: The Significance of Howard University's 1920s Drama Program
by Scott Zaluda "To Doubt Is Fatal": Eva Le Gallienne and the Civic
Repertory Theatre, 1926-1932 by Estelle Aden Sophie Treadwell's Play
Machinal: Strategies of Reception and Interpretation by Kornelia Tancheva
Sophie Treadwell's Summer with Boleslavsky and Lectures for the American
Laboratory Theatre by Jerry Dickey On "The Verge" of a New Form: The
Cabinet of Dr. Galigari and Susan Glaspell's Experiments in The Verge by
Steven Frank They Knew What They Wanted: American Theatre's Use of
Nonverbal Communication Codes to Marginalize Non-Native Characters in the
1920s by Beverly Bronson Smith The Poet Lore Plays: A New Chinese Voice . .
. But How New? by Dave Williams Theatre and Set Design Against the Tide:
Mordecai Gorlik and the New York Theatre of the 1920s--Processsional,
Nirvana, The Moon Is a Gong, and Loudspeaker by Anne Fletcher "Another
Revolution to Be Heard From" Jane Heap and the International Theatre
Exposition of 1926 by John Bell Architecture for the Twentieth Century:
Imaging the Theatre in the 1920s by William F. Condee Selected Bibliography
Index