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Famous American Plays Of The 1920S And The 1930S

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SKU:
552
Condition:
Very Good
Format:
Hardcover, 701 pages
Publisher:
The Fireside Theatre/Dell Publishing, Inc., 1988
Edition:
Book Club Edition
The 1920s when American Drama Came of Age This unique collection of plays captures the new vitality and direction of the American theater during the 1920s. Realism characterizes such groundbreaking plays as What Price Glory?, which introduced the natural profanity of soldiers’ speech to the American stage. O’Neill’s more experimental expressionism comes through in the lush one-act The Moon of the Caribbees. And while Porgy, Street Scene and They Knew What They Wanted explore the problems and passions of poor black or immigrant life, Philip Barry’s sophisticated Holiday epitomizes the wonderful high comedy of top hats, tails and the “ever-so-rich.” Selected and introduced by Kenneth MacGowan, a distinguished American theater writer, teacher and critic from 1910 to 1924, and producer until the end of 1931. In the early ‘20s he managed the Provincetown Playhouse and the Greenwich Village Theater. The 1930s American Theater in the Depression Years This collection of plays carries with it the full flavor of America during the lean and hungry days of the Great Depression. In this exciting decade of Stella Adler, Lunt and Fontanne, Ina Claire, Lee Strasberg, The Group Theater and the Federal Theater, American dramatists spoke out with social consciousness and hope. Here are the lovable eccentric of Nick’s waterfront saloon in the now classic The Time of Your Life, the conflicted Bronx Jewish family in Awake and Sing, the unforgettable migrant workers Lennie and Georg in Of Mice and Men, the antiwar stance of Idiot’s Delight and the Depression’s effect on the privileged class in the comedy End of Summer. Selected and introduced by Harold Clurman, a distinguished director, critics and lecture and one of the founders of the highly influential Group Theater. Forewords by Gordon Davidson, the artistic director of the Mark Taper Forum. Mr. Davidson has produced and directed myriad mainstage productions, workshops and developmental projects. Among the plays he has directed are Children of a Lesser God and Shadowbox. He is the winner of two Tonys and many Critics Circle and Obie awards.

The 1920s when American Drama Came of Age

This unique collection of plays captures the new vitality and direction of the American theater during the 1920s.  Realism characterizes such groundbreaking plays as What Price Glory?, which introduced the natural profanity of soldiers’ speech to the American stage.  O’Neill’s more experimental expressionism comes through in the lush one-act The Moon of the Caribbees.  And while Porgy, Street Scene and They Knew What They Wanted explore the problems and passions of poor black or immigrant life, Philip Barry’s sophisticated Holiday epitomizes the wonderful high comedy of top hats, tails and the “ever-so-rich.”

Selected and introduced by Kenneth MacGowan, a distinguished American theater writer, teacher and critic from 1910 to 1924, and producer until the end of 1931.  In the early ‘20s he managed the Provincetown Playhouse and the Greenwich Village Theater.

The 1930s American Theater in the Depression Years

This collection of plays carries with it the full flavor of America during the lean and hungry days of the Great Depression.  In this exciting decade of Stella Adler, Lunt and Fontanne, Ina Claire, Lee Strasberg, The Group Theater and the Federal Theater, American dramatists spoke out with social consciousness and hope.

Here are the lovable eccentric of Nick’s waterfront saloon in the now classic The Time of Your Life, the conflicted Bronx Jewish family in Awake and Sing, the unforgettable migrant workers Lennie and Georg in Of Mice and Men, the antiwar stance of Idiot’s Delight and the Depression’s effect on the privileged class in the comedy End of Summer.

Selected and introduced by Harold Clurman, a distinguished director, critics and lecture and one of the founders of the highly influential Group Theater.

Forewords by Gordon Davidson, the artistic director of the Mark Taper Forum.  Mr. Davidson has produced and directed myriad mainstage productions, workshops and developmental projects.  Among the plays he has directed are Children of a Lesser God and Shadowbox.  He is the winner of two Tonys and many Critics Circle and Obie awards.