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Routledge Revivals: Theatres of the Left 1880-1935 (1985)
Workers' Theatre Movements in Britain and America
Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series
Authors: Samuel Raphael, MacColl Ewan, Cosgrove Stuart
Language: EnglishSubjects for Routledge Revivals: Theatres of the Left 1880-1935 (1985):
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Madrigal Society; RTP; amateur; Ragged Trousered Philanthropists; dramatic; British Drama League; groups; Agit Prop Theatre; bourgeois; Amateur Dramatic Groups; clifford; Plebs League; odets; Herald League; plebs; Workers Theatre Movement; league; Labour Leaders; hunger; Workers Theatre Group; marchers; Workers Theatre; Red Radio; Elmer Rice; Town Hall; Trade Union Hall; American Workers Theatre; Red Lion Square; Proletarian Drama; Bourgeois Theatre; Hackney Group; Bar; Clifford Odets; Bourgeois Stage; Sholem Aleichem
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First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre movements intended their performances to be activist ? perceiving art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment ? and an emancipatory act. An introductory study relates left-wing theatre groupings to the cultural narratives of contemporary British socialism. The progress of the Workers? Theatre Movement (1928-1935) is traced from simple realism to the most brilliant phase of its Russian and German development alongside which the parallel movements in the United States are also examined. A number of crucial texts are reprints as well as stage notes and glimpses of the dramaturgical controversies which accompanied them.
Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: theatre and politics; Part 1 Theatre and socialism in Britain (1880-1935) Part 2 The Workers’ Theatre Movement (1926-1935) Part 3 The Yiddish-speaking WTM Part 4 The debate on naturalism Part 5 Proletkult: a view from the Plebs League Part 6 Some origins of Theatre Workshop Part 7 The political stage in the United States; Index