Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 12:16:29 -0500 (EST)
From: John Bell <bellj-AT-is3.nyu.edu>
Subject: 1930s Political Theater Presentation


	On Tuesday, November 11, New York's Great Small Works theater
company will present "Theater, Politics, and New York in the 1930s," a
live interview/performance with Bernice Silver, the New York City
puppeteer who performed political theater shows with Theater Advance in
the mid-1930s.  The presentation is part of the Radicality of Puppet
Theater Talk and Film Series, a monthly event curated by Jenny Romaine and
John Bell of Great Small Works and presented at New York's Los Kabayitos
Puppet Theater.
	Theater Advance, an outgrowth of the Workers' Laboratory Theater
and the Theater of Action, used the American traditions of musical
theater, comedy, and vaudeville to create theater addressing the social
and political concerns of progressive workers and artists during the
Depression years of the mid-1930s.  In the live interview portion of the
presentation, Silver will talk about how and why she became involved with
political theater in the 1930s, the goals of that theater, its use of
Stanislavsky methods, and the techniques Theater Advance used in its
various productions, which were performed on streets, in factories, on
picket lines, in union halls, and in large arenas such as Madison Square
Garden.
	Together with members of the Great Small Works company, Silver
will perform excerpts from Alfred Kreymbourg's "America, America"; the
radio play takeoff "6 1/2 Kilocycles"; "Yellow Yellow," a protest play
against the Hearst newspaper syndicate; "Schnitzlbank," an anti-fascist
banklsang, or picture story; songs from Ruth Burke's "Sweet Charity"; and
various political songs from Earl Robinson's "America Sings" songbook.
	
	"Theater, Politics, and New York in the 1930s" begins at 7:30 p.m.
at Los Kabayitos Puppet Theater, located in the Clemente Soto Velez
Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street in Manhattan.  Admission is $4.  For
more information call 212/260-4080, extension 14, or reach Los Kabayitos
director Michael Romanyshyn at smdenro-AT-aol.com.


John Bell
Great Small Works
bellj-AT-is3.nyu.edu




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