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Author | : Cheryl Black |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0817311122 |
Download The Women of Provincetown, 1915–1922 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"In this work, Cheryl Black argues that Provincetown has another, largely unacknowledged claim to fame: it was one of the first theatre companies in America in which women achieved prominence in every area of operation. At a time when women playwrights were rare, women directors rarer, and women scenic designers unheard of, Provincetown's female members excelled in all these functions, making significant contributions to the development of modern American drama and theatre. In addition to playwright Glaspell, the company's female membership included the likes of poets Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mina Loy, and Djuna Barnes; journalists Louise Bryant and Mary Heaton Vorse; novelists Neith Boyce and Evelyn Scott; and painter Marguerite Zorach.".
Author | : Cheryl D. Black |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edna Kenton |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780786417780 |
Download The Provincetown Players and the Playwrights' Theatre, 1915-1922 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The feminist writer and editor Edna Kenton (1876ndash;1954) was elected to the Executive Committee of the Provincetown Players by 1916. This theatrical company, first to present the plays of Eugene O'Neill, rebelled against the commercialism of Broadway and gave unrecognized dramatists the opportunity to experiment. Kenton was a great admirer of company leader George Cram Cook, and when Cook died in Greece in the early 1920s, Kenton dedicated herself to upholding his vision of a Dionysian ideal in American theater. This is Kenton's original history of the influential theatre, from the first seasons at Provincetown in 1915 and 1916, to the final New York season in 1922. This invaluable eyewitness account has been edited from the most complete and latest version of Kenton's text, with consultation of earlier incomplete versions. Kenton transcribed many playbills into the text, and included others whole between the pages; the latter are included as illustrations. An appendix reprints Kenton's two periodical articles about the Provincetown Players and articles from the New York Herald, the Boston Globe, and the Boston Evening Transcript, as well as other memories of the Provincetown Players, including those of Marsden Hartley, Nina Moise, M. Eleanor Fitzgerald, and Djuna Barnes.
Author | : Judith E. Barlow |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2009-10-21 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 143842793X |
Download Women Writers of the Provincetown Players Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Thirteen short plays by women that were originally produced by the Provincetown Players.
Author | : Geneva M. Gano |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020-08-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474439772 |
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This book is first to historicise and theorise the significance of the early twentieth-century little art colony as a uniquely modern social formation within a global network of modernist activity and production.
Author | : L. Bailey McDaniel |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2013-09-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137299576 |
Download (Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, equally constructed subdivisions based in race and class.
Author | : Mary McAvoy |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2019-06-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1609386426 |
Download Rehearsing Revolutions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2019 George Freedley Memorial Award Finalist, 2020 Between the world wars, several labor colleges sprouted up across the U.S. These schools, funded by unions, sought to provide members with adult education while also indoctrinating them into the cause. As Mary McAvoy reveals, a big part of that learning experience centered on the schools’ drama programs. For the first time, Rehearsing Revolutions shows how these left-leaning drama programs prepared American workers for the “on-the-ground” activism emerging across the country. In fact, McAvoy argues, these amateur stages served as training grounds for radical social activism in early twentieth-century America. Using a wealth of previously unpublished material such as director’s reports, course materials, playscripts, and reviews, McAvoy traces the programs’ evolution from experimental teaching tool to radically politicized training that inspired overt—even militant—labor activism by the late 1930s. All the while, she keeps an eye on larger trends in public life, connecting interwar labor drama to post-war arts-based activism in response to McCarthyism, the Cold War, and the Civil Rights movement. Ultimately, McAvoy asks: What did labor drama do for the workers’ colleges and why did they pursue it? She finds her answer through several different case studies in places like the Portland Labor College and the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee.
Author | : Anne Fliotsos |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2008-06-09 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0252032268 |
Download American Women Stage Directors of the Twentieth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first reference tool to focus on American women directors
Author | : Maren Tova Linett |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2010-09-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139825437 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Women played a central role in literary modernism, theorizing, debating, writing, and publishing the critical and imaginative work that resulted in a new literary culture during the early twentieth century. This volume provides a thorough overview of the main genres, the important issues, and the key figures in women's writing during the years 1890–1945. The essays treat the work of Woolf, Stein, Cather, H. D. Barnes, Hurston, and many others in detail; they also explore women's salons, little magazines, activism, photography, film criticism, and dance. Written especially for this Companion, these lively essays introduce students and scholars to the vibrant field of women's modernism.
Author | : Jackson R. Bryer |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 657 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1438129661 |
Download The Facts on File Companion to American Drama Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Features a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.