Experimenters, rebels, and disparate voices : the theatre of the 1920s celebrates American diversity /

Experimenters, rebels, and disparate voices : the theatre of the 1920s celebrates American diversity / edited by Arthur Gewirtz and James J. Kolb.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gewirtz, Arthur., Kolb, James J., 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
Series:Contributions in drama and theatre studies ; no. 99.
Subjects:
Lawson, John Howard, > 1894-1977 > 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.
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Dissenters in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Arthur Gewirtz, James J. Kolb
  • Part I: Experimenters, rebels, and disparate voices
  • Searching for "the big American play": The theatre guild produces John Howard Lawson's Processional / Beverle Bloch
  • The idiosyncratic theatre of John Howard Lawson / John D. Shout
  • Glitzing the proletariat: John Howard Lawson's plays of the 1920s / Michael C. O'Neill
  • Direction by design(er): Robert Edmond Jones and the new Provincetown players / Jane T. Peterson
  • Glitter, glitz, and race: The production of Harlem / Freda Scott Giles
  • Disparate voices: African American theatre critics of the 1920s / Freda Scott Giles
  • Garland Anderson and appearances: The playwright and his play / Alan Kreizenbeck
  • The first serious dramas on Broadway by African American playwrights / Jeanne-Marie A. Miller
  • Theatre and community: The significance of Howard University's 1920s drama program / Scott Zaluda
  • "To doubt is fatal": Eva Le Gallienne and the civic repertory theatre, 1926-1932 / Estelle Aden
  • Sophie Treadwell's play Machinal: Strategies of reception and interpretation / Kornelia Tancheva
  • Sophie Treadwell's summer with Boleslavsky and lectures for the American Laboratory Theatre / Jerry Dickey
  • On "The Verge" of a new form: The cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Susan Glaspell's experiments in The Verge / Steven Frank
  • They knew what they wanted: American theatre's use of nonverbal communication codes to marginalize non-native characters in the 1920s / Beverly Bronson Smith
  • The Poet Lore plays: A new Chinese voice ... but how new? / Dave Williams
  • Part II: Theatre and set design
  • Against the tide: Mordecai Gorelik and the New York Theatre of the 1920s
  • processional, Nirvana, the moon is a gong, and loudspeaker / Anne Fletcher
  • "Another revolution to be heard from": Jane Heap and the International Theatre Exposition of 1926 / John Bell
  • Architecture for the twentieth century: Imagining the theatre in the 1920s / William F. Condee.

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