An edition of Experimenters, rebels, and disparate voices
(2003)
Experimenters, rebels, and disparate voices
the theatre of the 1920s celebrates American diversity
by Arthur Gewirtz
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African Americans in literature, Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature, Theater, American Experimental drama, Difference (Psychology) in literature, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, American drama, Minorities in literature, Dissenters in literature, Minority authors, Ethnic groups in literature, History, Cultural pluralism in literature, American drama, history and criticism, 20th century, Experimental drama, history and criticism, Theater, united states, historyPeople
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Experimenters, Rebels, and Disparate Voices: The Theatre of the 1920s Celebrates American Diversity (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)
August 30, 2003, Praeger Publishers
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in English
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Experimenters, rebels, and disparate voices: the theatre of the 1920s celebrates American diversity
2003, Praeger
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Table of Contents
Machine 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-181) and index.
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