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Stage for Action: U.S. Social Activist Theatre in the 1940s(Theater in the Americas)

Stage for Action: U.S. Social Activist Theatre in the 1940s(Theater in the Americas)


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Drawing on underexplored and only recently available archives, author Chrystyna Dail examines the influence of Stage For Action—a significant, yet previously unstudied agitprop theatre group founded in 1943—on social activist theatre in the 1940s, early 1950s, and beyond.

About the Author :
Chrystyna Dail is an assistant professor of theatre history at Ithaca College in New York. She has published essays in the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Theatre History Studies, and the collection Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor.

Review :
"Chrystyna Dail's fresh and layered analysis [of] this previously neglected subject [is] a splendidly illuminating portrait, a history that is deeply researched in primary and secondary sources."--Alan M. Wald, author, American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War "Dail's Stage for Action is a model for interdisciplinary scholarship that buoys and breathes life into the annals of theatre history. Informed by critical scholarship, archival research, dramaturgical analysis, political and performance theories--as well as serendipitous discoveries--Stage for Action is emboldened by its rigorous and revelatory research."--Faedra Chatard Carpenter, author, Coloring Whiteness: Acts of Critique in Black Performance "Exploring ignored and recently declassified archives, Dail challenges deeply ingrained misconceptions about theater during the Cold War period in this, the first book-length study of one of America's most revolutionary artistic experiments, Stage for Action. Focusing on the group's four female founders, in addition to the more famous male playmakers whose celebrity eclipsed them, Dail offers a radical revision of both agitprop and feminist theater in the United States."--Sara Warner, author, Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure "In Stage for Action, Chrystyna Dail tells the surprising story of a vital artistic community that has been almost completely overlooked in histories of the U.S. theater. Through a close examination of the company's plays, practitioners, and politics, Dail reveals that Stage for Action (SFA) served as a creative incubator for some of the most prominent U.S. theater makers of the twentieth century. She persuasively argues that SFA's brief but pivotal existence allows us to understand better the complex ambitions, close connections, and notable achievements of activist theater artists in the wake of World War II."--Amy E. Hughes, author, Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America "Stage for Action serves as a fascinating and incredibly well-researched and well-written exploration into an important and oft-forgotten piece of theatre history. Given SFA's commitment to the notion that 'entertainment should have a purpose...and that purpose must be exerted to prevent war, stamp out race hatreds, combat poverty' and more, I cannot think of a more appropriate time to revisit and revive their works."--The Journal of American Drama and Theatre


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780809335428
  • Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Southern Illinois University Press
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Series Title: Theater in the Americas
  • Sub Title: U.S. Social Activist Theatre in the 1940s
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0809335425
  • Publisher Date: 09 Nov 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 307 gr


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