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Group Theatre

American theatrical company
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1931 - 1941
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Stanislavsky system

Group Theatre, company of stage craftsmen founded in 1931 in New York City by a former Theatre Guild member, Harold Clurman, in association with the directors Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg, for the purpose of presenting American plays of social significance. Embracing Konstantin Stanislavsky’s method (an acting technique that stressed the introspective approach to artistic truth), the characteristic trend of the Group’s productions was primarily in the staging of social protest plays with a point of view from the left. After its first trial production of Sergey Tretyakov’s Roar China (1930–31), the Group staged Paul Green’s House of Connelly, a ...(100 of 413 words)

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