From Red-Baiting to Blacklisting: The Labor Plays of Manny Fried

by Barry B Witham and Barry B. Witham

Author Barry B. Witham reclaims the work of Manny Fried, an essential American playwright so thoroughly blacklisted after he defied the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1954, and again in 1964, that his work all but completely disappeared from the canon. Witham details Manny Fried's work inside and outside the theatre and examines his three major labor plays and the political climate that both nurtured and disparaged their productions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809337754
• ISBN13: 9780809337750
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"