Real life drama : the Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940 / Wendy Smith

By:

Smith, Wendy, 1956- [autor]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, May 2013Edition: First Vintage Books editionDescription: XVII, 488 pàgines, 16 pàgines de làmines no numerades : il·lustracions ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

sense mediació

Carrier type:

volum

ISBN:

9780345805997

Subject(s):

Contents:

Conté: Genesis -- First love -- The real world -- New horizons -- Hard times -- Broadway success -- Conflict -- Theatre becomes life -- The struggle for organization -- Falling apart -- Regrouping -- A new agenda -- Fame and its discontents -- A season in hell -- Homeless -- After the fall

Summary: "Real Life Drama is the classic history of the remarkable group that revitalized American theater in the 1930s by engaging urgent social and moral issues that still resonate today. Born in the turbulent decade of the Depression, the Group Theatre revolutionized American arts. Wendy Smith's dramatic narrative brings the influential troupe and its founders to life once again, capturing their joys and pains, their triumph and defeats. Filled with fresh insights into the towering personalities of Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Cheryl Crawford, Elia Kazan, Clifford Odets, Stella and Luther Adler, Karl Malden, and Lee J. Cobb, among many others. Real Life Drama chronicles a passionate community of idealists as they opened a new frontier in theater." -- Library of Congress

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	792(73).07 GROUP (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		1900079171

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1990. " -- Library of Congress

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"Real Life Drama is the classic history of the remarkable group that revitalized American theater in the 1930s by engaging urgent social and moral issues that still resonate today. Born in the turbulent decade of the Depression, the Group Theatre revolutionized American arts. Wendy Smith's dramatic narrative brings the influential troupe and its founders to life once again, capturing their joys and pains, their triumph and defeats. Filled with fresh insights into the towering personalities of Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Cheryl Crawford, Elia Kazan, Clifford Odets, Stella and Luther Adler, Karl Malden, and Lee J. Cobb, among many others. Real Life Drama chronicles a passionate community of idealists as they opened a new frontier in theater." -- Library of Congress

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