Federal Theatre Project Analysis

Expressionism was the belief that emerged in Germany in 1910 which was based on the idea of countering materialism and industrialism. The latter was the principle oblique of Human spirit and that most of the expressionist stories generally present the protagonist in search for his/her identity or meant to change the world.
Eugene O’Neil is one of the most prominent playwrights , a lot of his plays were a sort of expressionistic styles such as THE HAIRY APE, which is a good play that might have seen or performed of one of these new created little or art theatres
Following WWI , between 1929-1939 approximately 2/3 of all live theatres venues due to the great depression and the advent of much cheaper films simplified realism Dominated broadways plays all the way up, Broadways were not really
its best known project was the creation of “ The Living Newspaper” which was almost a documentary type of theatre which explored a specific national problems , However as it grew, it began to be very critical of the government operation and in 1939 , congress Stopped funding the Federal Theatre Project because of its aggressive advocacy of social reform and government responsibility to do something about the social problems in the country, of course if you have a project that is being funded by the government and the new one begins to criticize it in a very public manners, it’s going to stop funding you and that was exactly what Congress did , but it did open the door for a lot of other theatres groups to form about the same time, Couple of these groups were the American Laboratory theatre and the Group