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Composing Ourselves: The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience » Read Now
by Dorothy Chansky. 293 pgs.

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When movies replaced theatre as popular entertainment in the 1910s, the world of live drama was wideopen for reform. American advocates and practitioners founded theatres in a spirit of anticommercialism, seeking to develop an American audience for serious theatre. This is a look at this Little Theatre movement.
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The Little Theatre in the United States (1917) » Read Now
by Constance D'Arcy Mackay. 277 pgs.

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Little Theatre Organization and Management, for Community, University and School: Including a History of the Amateur in Drama (1926) » Read Now
by Alexander Dean. 338 pgs.

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Community Theatre: Global Perspectives » Read Now
by Eugene van Erven. 270 pgs.

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Community theatre is an important device for communities to collectively share stories, to participate in political dialogue, and to break down the increasing exclusion of marginalised groups of citizens. It is practised all over the world by growing numbers of people.Published at the same time as a...
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Community theatre is an important device for communities to collectively share stories, to participate in political dialogue, and to break down the increasing exclusion of marginalised groups of citizens. It is practised all over the world by growing numbers of people.Published at the same time as a video of the same name, this is a unique record of these theatre groups in action. Based on van Erven's own travels and experiences working with community theatre groups in six very different countries, this is the first study of their work and the methodological traditions which have developed around the world.
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Staging America: Cornerstone and Community-Based Theater » Read Now
by Sonja Kuftinec. 255 pgs.

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The Simple Stage: Its Origins in the Modern American Theater » Read Now
by Arthur Feinsod. 243 pgs.

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This book is about the leaders of the modern American theater who resisted the temptation to fill the stage, preferring instead the evocations of a simplified stage. Beginning with a look at precedents and influences on the modern simple stage, Feinsod then examines the theories and practices of...
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This book is about the leaders of the modern American theater who resisted the temptation to fill the stage, preferring instead the evocations of a simplified stage. Beginning with a look at precedents and influences on the modern simple stage, Feinsod then examines the theories and practices of theater artists such as Maurice Browne, George Cram Cook, Robert Edmond Jones, Lee Simonson, and Thornton Wilder. Throughout the text, numerous design reproductions and performance photographs visually demonstrate the simple stage.
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The Little Theatre on the Square: Four Decades of a Small-Town Equity Theatre » Read Now
by Beth Conway Shervey. 124 pgs.

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Beth Conway Shervey examines the cultural consequences of an Equity theatre in a small midwestern farm town. Although many in the Midwest and beyond know the story of The Little Theatre On The Square in Sullivan, Illinois, Shervey is the first to consider what the existence of such a theatre means...
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Beth Conway Shervey examines the cultural consequences of an Equity theatre in a small midwestern farm town. Although many in the Midwest and beyond know the story of The Little Theatre On The Square in Sullivan, Illinois, Shervey is the first to consider what the existence of such a theatre means to perceptions of life in the town. To tell the story of Sullivan and of its star theatre in a cornfield from the perspective of the residents involved, Shervey uses oral history and and dozens of photographs by David W. Mobley, the theatre's longtime photographer.
Sullivan resembles most small towns in the Midwest, and The Little Theatre differs little from most professional summer stock theatres. Yet taken together, the small town and its theatre are clearly unusual, and the existence of the theatre obviously alters perceptions of life in the small town.
Before the theatre opened in 1957, Sullivan decidedly was a product of its time: the town sported a strong local chapter of the WCTU, moral people avoided taverns, liberals and Catholics were the minorities, and the population was predominantly white. While the theatre didn't effect instant change, it did introduce people to Sullivan who were obviously different.
Stars such as Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, Margaret Hamilton, and Pat O'Brien came into town. Aspiring actors and those behind the scenes also mingled with the residents of Sullivan. As a result, Shervey finds, Sullivan faced such issues as racism, homophobia, urban liberalism, and alcohol consumption at a much faster rate than similar towns. For some, the theatre disrupted a sense of the normal; for others, the theatre made life in Sullivan different and interesting, breakingthe restrictive bonds typically associated with small towns.
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Dionysus in Paris: Guide to Contemporary French Theater ("The Little Theater" begins on p. 197) » Read Now
by Wallace Fowlie. 320 pgs.

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Community in Motion: Theatre for Development in Africa » Read Now
by L. Dale Byam. 240 pgs.

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This study examines the growing Theatre for Development movement in Africa by highlighting specific case studies and detailing the development of the Zimbabwe Association of Community Theatre (ZACT). It assesses this theatre movement in the context of human development and Freirian pedagogy to...
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This study examines the growing Theatre for Development movement in Africa by highlighting specific case studies and detailing the development of the Zimbabwe Association of Community Theatre (ZACT). It assesses this theatre movement in the context of human development and Freirian pedagogy to understand the extent that theatre can be instrumental in building social and political consciousness.
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The American Renaissance (1928) ("Theater and Community" begins on p. 296) » Read Now
by R. L. Duffus. 340 pgs.

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The Art Theater: Its Character as Differentiated from the Commercial Theater; Its Ideals and Organization; and a Record of Certain European and American Examples (1925) » Read Now
by Sheldon Cheney. 330 pgs.

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The Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays (1940) ("The Community Theater Movement" begins on p. 169) » Read Now
by Bernard Sobel. 898 pgs.

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Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays (1920) ("Bibliography of the Little Theatre" begins on p. 553) » Read Now
by Rank Shay, Pierre Loving. 604 pgs.

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Curtains Going Up (1939) » Read Now
by Albert McCleery, Carl Glick. 412 pgs.

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