Composing Ourselves: The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience

by Dorothy Chansky

Book Overview

When movies replaced theatre as popular entertainment in the years 1910-20, the world of live drama was wide open for reform. American advocates and practitioners founded theatres in a spirit of anticommercialism, seeking to develop an American audience for serious theatre, mounting plays in what would today be called "alternative spaces," and uniting for the cause an eclectic group of professors, social workers, members of women's clubs, bohemians,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809326493
• ISBN13: 9780809326495
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"