Article: Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940.

REAL LIFE DRAMA: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940

Wendy Smith says she first became aware of the Group Theatre in the early 1970s when she found Harold Clurman's The Fervent Years: The Story of the Group Theatre and the Thirties among her parents' books. I, too, became aware of the Group in the early 1970s, but as a graduate student in art history who took a theater course on Stanislavsky given by one H. Clurman. What follows is more a memoir than a review, but it may provide a borader context for Smith's Real Life Drama.

Besides reading Stanislavsky's My Life in Art (which I've only now finished), our one assignment was to prepare a director's ...

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