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Washington, Action Dramatique: Jacques Copeau's Tribute to Franco-American Friendship
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1 P. MacKaye to J. Copeau, December 1917. Fonds Copeau, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal.
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11 Washington, The Man Who Made Us: A Ballad Play (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919)Google Scholar. The appendix states that there are two versions: the theatre version for the commercial theatre of today and the Festival version (the published version) for the community theatre of tomorrow. The latter would hold a hundred community participants; the former (by a combination of doubling roles), only 29 professionals. Each act is divided into “actions” linked by “transitions” in the form of ballads.
12 Les Registres du Vieux Colombier, America, Deuxième Partie, 385.
13 Washington, Action dramatique, trad. de l'anglais par Pierre de Lanux (New York: Brentano's, 1919), 50Google Scholar. Pierre de Lanux was a member of the French High Commission in the United States and an experienced translator.
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