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Stage Left
Author(s):
Toby Gordon Ryan
The Red Squad, Police harassment of theatrical activities in the 30s. Out-of-work men and women from Vancouver to Montreal coming together to produce pro-union plays such as Odets’ Waiting for Lefty and anti-war plays such as Irwin Shaw’s Bury the Dead. The Progress Arts Club movement; Worker’s Theatre, Toronto’s Theatre of Action. Out of this milieu came many who names would subsequently become part of Canada’s cultural establishment — Johnny Wayne, Frank Shuster, Lou Applebaum Lou Jacobi, Basya Hunter, Ben Lennick, Sydney Newman, Syd Banks, Lorne Greene. The full theatrical story of the period, told here for the first time. “The funny stories in the book are one of it best features”, Robin Belitsky Endres, Theatre History in Canada. ”Everyone who is interested in radicalism in the 1930s or in the development of Canadian theatre should read this book”, Terry Goldie, Labour/Travail.
Stage Left: Canadian Workers Theatre 1929-1940
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| Genre(s): | Not Available | | Time Period(s): | Not Available | | Play Type: | Play | | Runtime: | Not Available | | Acts: | Not Available | | Set Complexity: | Not Available | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | 1985 | | Total Characters: | Not Available | | Male Characters: | 0 | | Female Characters: | 0 | | Androgynous Characters: | 0 | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | Not Available | | Publisher: | Simon & Pierre
Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | | ISBN: | 889241724
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