About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780306801860ISBN:0306801868
Description: Acceptable. Minor water damage but content intact. Cover shows light edge wear. Light soiling on sides of book. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Rejected Items. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Da Capo Pr
Date Published: 1983-03-21
ISBN-13:9780306801860ISBN:0306801868
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780306801860. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good. Tight spine; clean pages; minor edgewear; minor scuffs on back cover; modest wear and tear overall. Reliable and accurate service. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780306801860ISBN:0306801868
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Description: Good. 1946 Hardcover. First published in Great Britain in 1946. " Commissioning organisation: by Harold Clurman. x p., 1 B., 298, viii p., 1 B. front., plates, group ports. 22 cm. Original cloth. Good copy, spine slightly sunned, spine cocked. " Keywords: Subjects Not a first edition copy. All books in stock. We ship daily from our warehouse. Over 200, 000 customers served online! Our feedback reflects our service...."Fast delivery, great seller", "Fantastic, came right away and was in perfect ... read more
Description: Very Good. 1946 Hardcover. First published in Great Britain in 1946. " Commissioning organisation: by Harold Clurman. x p., 1 B., 298, viii p., 1 B. front., plates, group ports. 22 cm. Hardback. Very good copy, firm binding, clean text. General wear to dust jacket with". Keywords: Subjects Not a first edition copy. All books in stock. We ship daily from our warehouse. Over 200, 000 customers served online! Our feedback reflects our service...."Fast delivery, great seller", "Fantastic, came ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780306801860ISBN:0306801868
Description: Near New in None-As Issued jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A very faint dog ear line across front cover corner. Otherwise the book is Brand New. Never read, never even opened. First Edition. 1983. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780306801860ISBN:0306801868
Description: New. "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, di" read more
"a little self-congratulatory, a little long-winded but digestible. it's a comfort to know that theater is just as impossible now as it was in the 30s."
"Man o man. This one took me awhile. I did find it inspiring and uplifting at times and hopelessly dry at others. It's, quite literally, a play by play of The Group Theatre from beginning to end. It's interesting that the struggles Clurman was facing are the same ones we face today - the commercialism, a small and narrow audience pool, the lack of good theater - people willing to actually change something and take society into account when choosing and developing work. He fights over and over to save his theater and hold his group together and in the end, kinda gives up.
He includes a quote from D.H. Lawrence: "The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood rather than the mind...changes the blood first. The mind follows later, in the wake...""
"Harold Clurman's memoir of the Group Theatre is enlightening and inspiring. It's also a bit dry. As far as showing me what a little fervency and passion can accomplish Clurman gets a gold star. However, their endless self-criticism and refusal to accept any script/production/praise as good seem to me to be a large part of their inability to continue. I believe I understand why the Group Theatre is a fundamentally huge building block of modern American theatre, but I think that we can learn as much from their failures as we can from their successes. If nothing else, we can take from "The Fervent Years" the notion that wishing we could have done things differently is worthless; instead we should learn from the past and apply those lessons to the present."
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