Federal Theatre Project in the American South (eBook)
232 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2683-8 (ISBN)
The Federal Theatre Project in the American South introduces the people and projects that shaped the regional identity of the Federal Theatre Project. When college theatre director Hallie Flanagan became head of this New Deal era jobs program in 1935, she envisioned a national theatre comprised of a network of theatres across the country. A regional approach was more than organizational; it was a conceptual model for a national art. Flanagan was part of the little theatre movement that had already developed a new American drama drawn from the distinctive heritage of each region and which they believed would, collectively, illustrate a national identity. The Federal Theatre plan relied on a successful regional model the folk drama program at the University of North Carolina, led by Frederick Koch and Paul Green. Through a unique partnership of public university, private philanthropy and community participation, Koch had developed a successful playwriting program and extension service that built community theatres throughout the state. North Carolina, along with the rest of the Southern region, seemed an unpromising place for government theatre. Racial segregation and conservative politics limited the Federal Theatre's ability to experiment with new ideas in the region. Yet in North Carolina, the Project thrived. Amateur drama units became vibrant community theatres where whites and African Americans worked together. Project personnel launched The Lost Colony, one of the first so-called outdoor historical dramas that would become its own movement. The Federal Theatre sent unemployed dramatists, including future novelist Betty Smith, to the university to work with Koch and Green. They joined other playwrights, including African American writer Zora Neale Hurston, who came to North Carolina because of their own interest in folk drama. Their experience, told in this book, is a backdrop for each successive generation's debates over government, cultural expression, art and identity in the American nation.
Cecelia Moore is university historian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Chapter 1: Regionalism, Drama, and ReliefChapter 2: Opportunities and Limitations: Community Theatres in RaleighChapter 3: The Lost Colony: Community, Regionalism and the Common ManChapter 4: What Happens to PlaywrightsChapter 5: The Limits of Regionalism
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.9.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | New Studies in Southern History |
Zusatzinfo | 24 Illustrations including: - 24 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs. |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945 | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Schlagworte | African American theater • American History • American philanthropy • American South • American theater • Art and Politics • cultural expression • Culture • historical drama • New Deal • North Carolina • Regionalism • Theater |
ISBN-10 | 1-4985-2683-7 / 1498526837 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-2683-8 / 9781498526838 |
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