# The Fervent Years

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- Book: [The Fervent Years](https://www.bookquiver.com/harold-clurman/the-fervent-years) ([The Fervent Years.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/harold-clurman/the-fervent-years.md))
- Authors: [Harold Clurman](https://www.bookquiver.com/harold-clurman)
- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- ISBN: 978-03-0680-186-0
- Published: 1983-03-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Group Theatre was perhaps the most significant experiment in the history of American theatre. Producing plays that reflected topical issues of the decade and giving a creative chance to actors, directors, and playwrights who were either fed up with or shut out of commercial theatre, the " Group" remains a permanent influence on American drama despite its brief ten-year life. It was here that method acting, native realism, and political language had their tryouts in front of audiences who anticipated,indeed demanded,a departure from the Broadway " show-biz" tradition. In this now classic account, Harold Clurman, founder of the Group Theatre and a dynamic force as producer-director-critic for fifty years, here re-creates history he helped make with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, Irwin Shaw, Clifford Odets, Cheryl Crawford, Morris Carnovsky, and William Saroyan. Stella Adler contributed a new introduction to this edition which remembers Clurman, the thirties, and the heady atmosphere of a tumultuous decade.