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245 00 $aExperimenters, rebels, and disparate voices :$bthe theatre of the 1920s celebrates American diversity /$cedited by Arthur Gewirtz and James J. Kolb.
260 $aWestport, Conn. :$bPraeger,$c2003.
300 $axvii, 196 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aContributions in drama and theatre studies,$x0163-3821 ;$vno. 99
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-181) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction -- Arthur Gewirtz and James J. Kolb ix --Part I: Experimenters, Rebels, and Disparate Voices --1. Searching for "The Big American Play": The Theatre Guild Produces John Howard Lawson's Processional -- Beverle Bloch 3 --2. The Idiosyncratic Theatre of John Howard Lawson -- John D. Shout 13 --3. Glitzing the Proletariat: John Howard Lawson's Plays of the 1920s -- Michael C. O'Neill 23 --4. Direction by Design(er): Robert Edmond Jones and the New Provincetown Players -- Jane T. Peterson 31 --5. Glitter, Glitz, and Race: The Production of Harlem -- Freda Scott Giles 39 --6. Disparate Voices: African American Theatre Critics of the 1920s -- Freda Scott Giles 47 --7. Garland Anderson and Appearances: The Playwright and His Play -- Alan Kreizenbeck 55 8. The First Serious Dramas on Broadway by African American Playwrights -- Jeanne-Marie A. Miller 71 --9. Theatre and Community: The Significance of Howard University's 1920s Drama Program -- Scott Zaluda 83 --10. "To Doubt Is Fatal": Eva Le Gallienne and the Civic Repertory Theatre, 1926-1932 -- Estelle Aden 93 --11. Sophie Treadwell's Play Machinal: Strategies of Reception and Interpretation -- Kornelia Tancheva 101 --12. Sophie Treadwell's Summer with Boleslavsky and Lectures for the American Laboratory Theatre -- Jerry Dickey 111 --13 On "The Verge" of a New Form: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Susan Glaspell's Experiments in The Verge -- Steven Frank 119 --14. They Knew What They Wanted: American Theatre's Use of Nonverbal Communication Codes to Marginalize Non-Native Characters in the 1920s -- Beverly Bronson Smith 131 --15. The Poet Lore Plays: A New Chinese Voice. But How New? -- Dave Williams 139 Part II: Theatre and Set Design --16. Against the Tide: Mordecai Gorelik and the New York Theatre of the 1920s-Processional, Nirvana, The Moon -- is a Gong, and Loudspeaker -- Anne Fletcher 149 --17. "Another Revolution to Be Heard From": Jane Heap and the International Theatre Exposition of 1926 -- John Bell 157 --18. Architecture for the Twentieth Century: Imagining the Theatre in the 1920s -- William F. Condee 167.
650 0 $aAmerican drama$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican drama$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism.
600 10 $aLawson, John Howard,$d1894-$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aExperimental drama, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aTheater$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aCultural pluralism in literature.
650 0 $aDifference (Psychology) in literature.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.
650 0 $aEthnic groups in literature.
650 0 $aMinorities in literature.
650 0 $aDissenters in literature.
700 1 $aGewirtz, Arthur.
700 1 $aKolb, James J.,$d1944-
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy041/2002072543.html