Experimenters, rebels, and disparate voices
Subtitle: the theatre of the 1920s celebrates American diversity
By: edited by Arthur Gewirtz and James J. Kolb.
Contributors: Gewirtz, Arthur.; Kolb, James J., 1944-
Series: Contributions in drama and theatre studies,; no. 99
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Lawson, John Howard, 1894- -- Criticism and interpretation; American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American drama -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; Experimental drama, American -- History and criticism; Theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature; Difference (Psychology) in literature; African Americans in literature; Ethnic groups in literature; Minorities in literature; Dissenters in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-181) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: Arthur Gewirtz and James J. Kolb ix; title: Part I: Experimenters, Rebels, and Disparate Voices; title: 1. Searching for "The Big American Play": The Theatre Guild Produces John Howard Lawson's Processional; title: Beverle Bloch 3; title: 2. The Idiosyncratic Theatre of John Howard Lawson; title: John D. Shout 13; title: 3. Glitzing the Proletariat: John Howard Lawson's Plays of the 1920s; title: Michael C. O'Neill 23; title: 4. Direction by Design(er): Robert Edmond Jones and the New Provincetown Players; title: Jane T. Peterson 31; title: 5. Glitter, Glitz, and Race: The Production of Harlem; title: Freda Scott Giles 39; title: 6. Disparate Voices: African American Theatre Critics of the 1920s; title: Freda Scott Giles 47; title: 7. Garland Anderson and Appearances: The Playwright and His Play; title: Alan Kreizenbeck 55 8. The First Serious Dramas on Broadway by African American Playwrights; title: Jeanne-Marie A. Miller 71; title: 9. Theatre and Community: The Significance of Howard University's 1920s Drama Program; title: Scott Zaluda 83; title: 10. "To Doubt Is Fatal": Eva Le Gallienne and the Civic Repertory Theatre, 1926-1932; title: Estelle Aden 93; title: 11. Sophie Treadwell's Play Machinal: Strategies of Reception and Interpretation; title: Kornelia Tancheva 101; title: 12. Sophie Treadwell's Summer with Boleslavsky and Lectures for the American Laboratory Theatre; title: Jerry Dickey 111; title: 13 On "The Verge" of a New Form: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Susan Glaspell's Experiments in The Verge; title: Steven Frank 119; title: 14. They Knew What They Wanted: American Theatre's Use of Nonverbal Communication Codes to Marginalize Non-Native Characters in the 1920s; title: Beverly Bronson Smith 131; title: 15. The Poet Lore Plays: A New Chinese Voice. But How New?; title: Dave Williams 139 Part II: Theatre and Set Design; title: 16. Against the Tide: Mordecai Gorelik and the New York Theatre of the 1920s-Processional, Nirvana, The Moon; title: is a Gong, and Loudspeaker; title: Anne Fletcher 149; title: 17. "Another Revolution to Be Heard From": Jane Heap and the International Theatre Exposition of 1926; title: John Bell 157; title: 18. Architecture for the Twentieth Century: Imagining the Theatre in the 1920s; title: William F. Condee 167.