Group Theatre

Group Theatre
TEATRO Entidad teatral estadounidense, aparecida en la década de 1930, que hizo conocer los sistemas más avanzados de puesta en escena.

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Compañía teatral de la ciudad de Nueva York (1931–41) fundada por Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford y Lee Strasberg con el propósito de presentar obras estadounidenses con sentido social.

La compañía estaba conformada por actores y directores como Elia Kazan, Lee J. Coob y Stella Adler, y acogió los principios del método Stanislavski de actuación. Entre sus numerosos montajes se cuentan La historia de éxito (1932) de John Howard Lawson, Uniforme blanco (1933) de Sidney Kingsley, Esperando al zurdo (1935) y El chico de oro (1937) de Clifford Odets, Entierren al muerto (1936) de Irwin Shaw y Mi corazón está en las montañas (1939) de William Saroyan.

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  • Group Theatre — Das Group Theatre war eine freie Theatergruppe, die 1931 von Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford und Lee Strasberg in New York gegründet wurde. Die Gründer des Group Theatres versammelten um sich junge Schauspieler, die den Theatertheorien des… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Group Theatre — Two theatrical companies had this name in the 1930s and afterwards:* Group Theatre (London) * Group Theatre (New York) …   Wikipedia

  • Group Theatre — Group Thea|tre, the a group of actors and ↑directors in the US who worked together from 1931 to 1940 to produce plays with a political message. Many of the people in the group, such as Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg, became very important in the US …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Group Theatre (New York) — The Group Theatre was a New York City theater collective formed by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg in 1931. It was intended as a base for the kind of theater they and their colleagues believed in mdash; a forceful, naturalistic… …   Wikipedia

  • Group Theatre (London) — The Group Theatre (London, no connection with the New York company with the same name) was an experimental theatre company founded in 1932 by Rupert Doone and Robert Medley. It evolved from a play reading group in Cambridge that Doone had been… …   Wikipedia

  • Group Theatre — New York theatre company (1931–41) founded by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford, and Lee Strasberg to present U.S. plays of social significance. Embracing the acting principles of the Stanislavsky method, the company which also included actors and… …   Universalium

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  • theatre, Western — ▪ art Introduction       history of the Western theatre from its origins in pre Classical antiquity to the present.       For a discussion of drama as a literary form, see dramatic literature and the articles on individual national literatures.… …   Universalium

  • group — groupwise, adv. /groohp/, n. 1. any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings. 2. a number of persons or things ranged or considered together as being related in… …   Universalium

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