Word: agitprop
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Your very interesting story titled "AgitProp" [TIME, June 17], which tells of the campaign of suppression accorded Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty and of the currently expanding workers' theatre, should be amplified to a certain extent. Your write-up does not mention a rather amazing and in ways amusing "Pittsburgh episode" which is newsworthy as well...
...only those who are concerned with the theatre but everyone who wants to preserve the American heritage of civil liberties will bitterly resent this arbitrary suppression of a play which has been widely acclaimed.'" That quotation from your article "AgitProp" in TIME, June 17 is an excellent expression of what we in Boston are now fighting...
...AgitProp...
...there mushroomed in the U. S. the Little Theatre Movement in which strictly art-for-art's-sake productions were presented by serious amateurs, earnest dilettantes. Far more serious, far more earnest is the Depression-born movement of workers' theatres which are currently putting on "agitprop" (agitational propaganda) plays in 300 U. S. cities...
...like Chicago and Cleveland but in smaller manufacturing cities like Moline, Ill. and Gary, Ind. Not infrequently the shirt-sleeved amateurs went to the theatre after work, rehearsed and played there, ate there and slept on cots pitched on the stage. Through the League's play service, such "agitprop" pieces as Comrade, Mr. Morgan's Nightmare, Who's Who in the Berlin Zoo were supplied to workers' theatres up & down the land. Acceptable and exciting as they may have been to Marxist audiences, the general theatre public did not get very excited about proletarian drama until...