While acknowledging the contributions made by the most well known (and often referenced) Little Theatres (i.e., the Provincetown Players, the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Washington Square Players), the author thankfully eschews them in favor of lesser known. The Little Theatre Movement, an amateur grass-roots theatre movement, in Canada has often been regarded by historians as a stepping-stone. In Chapter One the scope, time and terms of the study are clearly defined. SIU Press, 2005 - Little theater movement. The book follows a format reminiscent of Goethe's three questions for the drama critic where "LTM" substitutes for "production" or "performance." Chapters One through Three, devoted to developing and cultivating the audience, answer what the Little Theatre movement was trying to do. Composing Ourselves: The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience. When women started speaking out, 'it immediately resonated, it really did shake me up', she says. The result was a theatre that was ahead of its time and perhaps our own time as well. For actor Heather Mitchell, the MeToo movement was a long time coming. In Composing Ourselves, Dorothy Chansky offers a careful study of specific ways the Little Theatre movement attempted to influence (and was ultimately influenced by) audiences in the second and third decades of the twentieth century. During the early part of the 16th century, there were two distinct types of theatre in England. These companies usually performed in smaller spaces than commercial companies. Predicated on Progressive Era ideals of individualism and social reform, the Little Theatre movement was at once a reaction to conservative, mainstream Broadway touring shows and an attempt to fill the void left by those shows when touring curtailed with the advent of film. The European Art Theatre Movement, generally credited with giving impetus to the Little Theatre Movement, actually began prior to the turn of the century with revolutionary changes in theatre technique, playwriting and acting style. The Little Theatre Movement of the 1910s-1930s had sown a provincial hunger for theatre, but those groups were amateur. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004 pp. Professional regional theatre simply did not exist. "Composing Ourselves": The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience.
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