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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Barry B WithamPublisher: Southern Illinois University Press Imprint: Southern Illinois University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9780809337750ISBN 10: 0809337754 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 30 April 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1 1. From Red to Black 2. Cointelpro 3. Red Stains and Black Robes 4. Red Threats and Silver Coins 5. Red Rum and Moving Vans 6. Epilogue PART 2 Elegy for Stanley Gorski: A Play by Emanuel Fried Drop Hammer: A Play by Emanuel Fried The Dodo Bird: A Play by Emanuel Fried Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsFried's odyssey through the postwar American political, business, and theatrical landscape provides a vision of the era unlike any other. Remarkably courageous and talented, Fried lived a life that will inspire renewed interest in this remarkable time thanks to Witham's impressive scholarship and bracing writing. --James Fisher, author of the Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings Witham has done a masterful job providing an introduction to Manny Fried's contributions as a blacklisted labor organizer and playwright, and explains how the three plays enclosed illuminate those battles in realistic, compassionate, and highly stage-worthy terms. This is a timely and informative book. --Stuart J. Hecht, author of Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation and the American Musical Witham's thoughtful study illuminates the achievements of a man who refused to stop fighting on behalf of American workers, who called out racial, ethnic, and gender bias and abuses of government authority. --Heather Nathans, author of Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage Witham offers both a moving account of Fried's life and compelling analysis of his plays. --Jonathan Chambers, author of Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre., 1923-1937 "Fried’s odyssey through the postwar American political, business, and theatrical landscape provides a vision of the era unlike any other. Remarkably courageous and talented, Fried lived a life that will inspire renewed interest in this remarkable time thanks to Witham’s impressive scholarship and bracing writing."" —James Fisher, author of the Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings ""Witham has done a masterful job providing an introduction to Manny Fried’s contributions as a blacklisted labor organizer and playwright, and explains how the three plays enclosed illuminate those battles in realistic, compassionate, and highly stage-worthy terms. This is a timely and informative book."" —Stuart J. Hecht, author of Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation and the American Musical ""Witham's thoughtful study illuminates the achievements of a man who refused to stop fighting on behalf of American workers, who called out racial, ethnic, and gender bias and abuses of government authority."" —Heather Nathans, author of Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage ""Witham offers both a moving account of Fried’s life and compelling analysis of his plays."" —Jonathan Chambers, author of Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923–1937" Author InformationBarry Witham, a professor emeritus of theatre history at the University of Washington, is the editor of Theatre in the United States: A Documentary History and the author of The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study and A Sustainable Theatre: Jasper Deeter at Hedgerow. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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