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Author Dail, Chrystyna, author.

Title Stage for Action : U.S. social activist theatre in the 1940s / Chrystyna Dail
Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Theater in the Americas
Theater in the Americas.
Contents Theatre as a weapon -- Progressive insurgency -- "You've still got a voice" -- "The people's voice must sound louder" -- A people's theatre in every sense of the word
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 16, 2016)
Subject Stage for Action (Theater company) -- History
Theatrical companies -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Theater and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Theater -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Theater and society
Theater -- Political aspects
Theatrical companies
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780809335435
0809335433