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The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study. By Barry B. Witham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003; pp. 190. $70 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2005

Rena Fraden
Rena Fraden
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Extract

The Federal Theatre Project . . . was a unique and influential experiment in American theatre; not just for its outspoken politics, but because it reimagined the very way that theatre was produced in the United States. For the first time in the history of the country theatre was subsidized by the federal government, a practice with widespread precedents in Europe and Asia, but one that was totally out of step with free enterprise business practice and a culture which had banned plays in its Second Continental Congress. (1)

So opens Barry Witham's case study of the Seattle Federal Theatre Project from 1935 to 1939.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Theatre Survey , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , May 2005 , pp. 134 - 135
Copyright
© 2005 The American Society for Theatre Research, Inc.

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