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The Group Theater 1931-1940
Title
The Group Theater [videorecording] : 1931-1940 / [produced and directed by Nick Havinga ; writer, Stephan Chodorov].
Published
Kent, CT : Creative Arts Television, c1999.
Physical Description
1 videocassette (27 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Notes
Title from cassette label.
Originally produced as an episode of Camera three in 1967.
Settings designed by Frank Lopez ; set decorator, John Pickette ; production supervisor, Al Rosen.
Summary
Clurman, Strasberg and Lewis discuss the heady days of the famous Group Theater, its origins, successes, failures, and eventual decline. The Group Theater was active from 1931 to 1940. It came in with the Depression and went out with the World War. It was intended as a forum for plays that would make a political statement; a new start in the casting and presentaiton of plays; a way of exploring acting techniques and of forging a cohesive group of talent that would stay together.
Variant and related titles
Camera three (Television program)
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 01, 2004
Credits
Settings designed by Frank Lopez ; set decorator, John Pickette ; production supervisor, Al Rosen.
Performers
Host, Russell Barber ; panelists, Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Robert Lewis.
System details note
VHS
Subjects
Also listed under
Creative Arts Television (Firm)
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