Group Theatre (London)
The Group Theatre(London) was an experimental theatre company founded in 1932 byRupert DooneandRobert Medley.It evolved from a play-reading group in Cambridge that Doone had been involved with during his years studying with theCambridge Festival Theatre.The Group Theatre was active from 1932 to 1939 and reformed as The Group Theatre Ltd. in the early 1950s.
The Group performed plays written for it in the 1930s byW. H. Auden,both alone and in collaboration withChristopher Isherwood,Louis MacNeice,andStephen Spender.It also produced plays byT. S. Eliotand other contemporary writers, and Elizabethan and medieval English plays.
Among the artists and musicians who worked with the Group wereHenry Moore,Benjamin Britten,Brian EasdaleandRupert Shephard.[1]
References
[edit]- ^Sally Hunter (May 2005)."Shephard, Rupert Norman (1909-1992)".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; OUP 2004; online edn.Retrieved19 November2013.
- Michael J. Sidnell (1984).Dances of Death: The Group Theatre of London in the Thirties.Faber.
- Robert Medley (1983).Drawn from the Life: A Memoir.Faber.
Further reading
[edit]- Kinchin-Smith, Sam (1 November 2023)."A hotbed of English radicalism? Auden, Britten and the unsung glory of the Group Theatre".The Guardian.London.