New Article: ‘The Federal Players Play Love on the Dole at the Civic University Theatre, Syracuse NY, with a Full Music Programme and a ‘Community Song Fest’ (September 10-13, 1936) *

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2MBEENC Love on the Dole, Syracuse, NY, 1936. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935, was designed to conserve and develop the skills of theater workers, re-employ them on public relief, and to bring theater to thousands in the United States who had never before seen live theatrical performances.

This was in several ways a unique production – the only Federal Players performance of this British play in the US and the only one ever with a full music programme and ‘community song fest’ included. It has never been discussed before. In this article I reconstruct the complete musc programme and explore how play and music related (or if they did) and also why the production was politically controversial.

See The Federal Players Play Love on the Dole at the Civic University Theatre, Syracuse NY, with a Full Music Programme and a ‘Community Song Fest’ (September 10-13, 1936) *

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