Directing Shaw Plays for Community Theater Audiences

This article discusses the problems and the possibilities involved in directing a Shaw play for community theater audiences and illustrates both from the author's experiences when he directed Arms and the Man for a community theater company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Those experiences reveal th...

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Veröffentlicht in:Shaw. - Pennsylvania State University Press, 1981. - 38(2018), 1, Seite 41-47
1. Verfasser: McInerney, John M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2018
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Shaw
Schlagworte:Arms and the Man high comedy periaktoids farce reversal of expectations Arts Social sciences
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