Description:
This book presents a comparative study of the history, performances and politics of the FTP by drawing and exposing further links between American modernism and its European counterparts.
Brief description: Rania Karoula teaches contemporary Scottish and modernist drama in the Department of English Literature and Centre for Open Learning at the University of Edinburgh. In addition to her work in libraries and archives, she interned at Oran Mor, Glasgow, with David MacLennan, one of the founders of the 7:84 company. She has organized theatrical workshops with leading Scottish and international dramatists, performers, academics and musicians. Her recent article, "From Meyerhold and Blue Blouse to McGrath and 7:84: Political Theatre in Russia and Scotland", was considered for the 2019 R. D. S. Jack Prize by the International Society for the Study of Scottish Literatures.
Review Quotes: Rania Karoula's study of the Federal Theatre Project is a landmark piece of research. Reading this path-breaking contribution to theatre history one gets the sense both of the FTP's political fervour and its innovative aesthetic approach. Anyone interested in the way art and politics intersected in the twentieth century - and might still intersect now - will be fascinated by this compelling volume.--Claire Warden, Loughborough University