The Fervent Years

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THE FERVENT YEARS by Harold Clurman New introduction by Stella Adler
"An extraordinarily articulate record of a stimulating episode in the American theatre. It recaptures the idealism, drive, artistic fanaticism, personalities, temperaments and neuroses of a dedicated bánd. of theatre people living in an explosive period of history."
. —Brooks Atkinson
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"Harold Clurman was an American master—as director, critic, theoretician, teacher, and talker—and The Fervent Years, abounding in observations and anecdotes, is á quintessential book about the life of a theatre." ¦ —Mel Gussow
The Group Theatre was perhaps the riiost significant experimentlin the history of American theatre. Producing plays that reflected topicaj 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 theatre, . the "Group" remains a permanent influence on American dráma despite its brief 10-year life.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THEATRE
THE FERVENT YEARS by Harold Clurman New introduction by Stella Adler
"An extraordinarily articulate record of a stimulating episode in the American theatre. It recaptures the idealism, drive, artistic fanaticism, personalities, temperaments and neuroses of a dedicated bánd. of theatre people living in an explosive period of history."
. —Brooks Atkinson
''' i . - ¦ \
"Harold Clurman was an American master—as director, critic, theoretician, teacher, and talker—and The Fervent Years, abounding in observations and anecdotes, is á quintessential book about the life of a theatre." ¦ —Mel Gussow
The Group Theatre was perhaps the riiost significant experimentlin the history of American theatre. Producing plays that reflected topicaj 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 theatre, . the "Group" remains a permanent influence on American dráma despite its brief 10-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 "shbw-biz" tradition,'
In this now classic account, Harold Clurman, founder of the Grogp Theatre and a dynamic force as producer-director-critic for fifty years, here recreates history he helped make with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, Irwin Shaw, Clifford Odets, Cheryl Crawford, Morris Carnovsky, William Saroyan, and Stella Adler, who has contributed a new introduction to this edition that remembers Clurman, the 30s, apd the heady atmosphere of, a tumultuous decade,
The late Harold Ôiurman was the author of Lies Like Truth, The Naked Image, On Directing, The Divine Pastime, All People Are Famous, and the editor of numerous theatre anthologies.
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