This volume assesses the accomplishments of three mid-20th-century, North American stage directors: Harold Clurman, Orson Welles, and Margo Jones.
Though their theatre-making endeavours were distinct, each produced work that challenged preconceived notions of theatre-making, all while working within the structure of a company. As directors drawn to the potential rewards of collaboration, all also were keenly adept at understanding how the relationship with a company of collaborators is often marked by struggle and crisis. The essays in this volume explore how these accomplished directors not only created bold work, but also drew on the complex energies of the theatre companies with which they worked to reimagine the shape and scope of theatre directing.
The Great North American Stage Directors series provides an authoritative account of the art of directing in North America by examining the work of twenty-four major practitioners from the late 19th century to the present. Each of the eight volumes examines three directors and offers an overview of their practices, theoretical ideas, and contributions to modern theatre. The studies chart the life and work of each major North American theatre director, placing his or her achievement in the context of other important theatre practitioners and broader social history. Written by a team of leading experts, the series presents the genealogy of directing in North America while simultaneously chronicling crucial
trends and championing contemporary interpretation.
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The definitive account of the work, lineage and legacy of Harold Clurman, Orson Welles, and Margo Jones.
List of Figures
Series Introduction, James Peck (Muhlenberg College, USA)
Introduction. The Director in the Company and the Value of Crisis, Jonathan
Chambers (Bowling Green State University, USA)
Harold Clurman
1. Harold Clurman, the Group, and the Legacy of a Director, Richard Jones
(Stephen F. Austin State University, USA)
2. Cultural Messiah: Harold Clurman and the Early Years of the Group Theatre,
Fonzie D. Geary II (Lyon College, USA)
3. Something More Than the "Naked Facts": Clurman and Odets's Messy Idealism,
Christopher Herr (Missouri State University, USA)
Orson Welles
4. Orson Welles, Project 891, and the Mercury Theatre: A Consideration of
Welles as the Director of a Company, Matthew Gretzinger (Independent Scholar,
USA)
5. Recovering History and Supernatural Politics: Orson Welles's Creative
Collaborations in the Federal Theatre Project's "Voodoo Macbeth", Elizabeth
A. Osborne (Florida State University, USA)
6. Caesar: A Production for Its Time and Beyond, Anne Fletcher (Southern
Illinois University Carbondale, USA)
Margo Jones
7. Margo Jones and the Rhetoric of Company-Making, Boone J. Hopkins (Converse
College, USA)
8. Margo Jones and Alma Winemiller: A Director and Her Doppelgänger,
Chrystyna Dail (Ithaca College, USA)
9. On a Double-Dog Dare: Margo Joness Production of Inherit the Wind,
Jennifer Jones Cavenaugh (Rollins College, USA)
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Jonathan Chambers is Professor of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA.
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