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Background[edit]
Hallie Flanagan discussed the work of European theatermakers including Edward Gordon Craig, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and Konstantin Stanislavsky with her students at Vassar, leading them to engage in research on expressionism, impressionism, and constructivism at the college's library.[1]
Production[edit]
When played in the constructivist style, lighting fixtures were left visible to the audience.[2]
Cast[edit]
Reception and legacy[edit]
Experimentation with non-realistic forms of performance in American theaters slowed from the 1920s into the 1930s.[3] Willard Thorp argues that the most significant work of the period was done at the Vassar Experimental Theatre, citing Flanagan's productions of the Proposal as evidence.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Bentley 1988, p. 95.
- ^ Helvenston 1931, p. 48.
- ^ Thorp 1960, pp. 81–82.
- ^ Thorp 1960, pp. 82–83.
Cited[edit]
- Bentley, Joanne (1988). Hallie Flanagan: A Life in the American Theatre. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-57041-3.
- Canning, Charlotte (2005). "Directing History: Women, Performance and Scholarship". Theatre Research International. 30 (1): 49–59. doi:10.1017/S0307883304000860. S2CID 143479735.
- Canning, Charlotte M. (2015). On the Performance Front: US Theatre and Internationalism. London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9781137543301. ISBN 978-0230233386.
- Flanagan, Hallie (1943). Dynamo. New York City: Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
- Helvenston, Henry (1931). Scenery: A Manual of Design. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
- Osborne, Elizabeth A. (2016). "A Democratic Legacy: Hallie Flanagan and the Vassar Experimental Theatre". In Syssoyeva, Kathryn Mederos; Proudfit, Scott (eds.). Women, Collective Creation, and Devised Performance: The Rise of Women Theatre Artists in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 67–80. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-55013-2_4. ISBN 978-1-137-55013-2.
- Senelick, Laurence (1997). The Chekhov theatre: a century of the plays in performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-78395-X.
- Thorp, Willard (1960). American Writing in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.