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Born on the Idaho frontier, Florence James was a New York City suffragette. The first to put Jimmy Cagney on stage, she founded both the Negro Repertory Theatre and the Seattle Repertory Playhouse. She worked with Francis Farmer, Paul Robson, and Helen Hayes, but her views on art and politics and her choice of plays led to a clash with the Un-American Activities Committee. In the wake of two Kafkaesque trials, where she condemned her persecutors as liars, she fled to Canada and kick-started professional theatre in Saskatchewan, the home to North America's first socialist government. Vital and inspiring, Florence of America is a story of one woman speaking truth to power. "An amazing story of achievement, heartbreak, and endurance...But above all, it is a moving and powerful cautionary tale of what can happen, at any time of any age, when, in [Arthur] Miller's words, a whole world begins to cry 'spirits.'" —Moira Day, Department Head of Drama, University of Saskatchewan
Contents
Preface by Jean Freeman
Editor's Introduction by Sean Prpick
Prologue
Opening Night
Beginnings
New York
The Settlement
A New, Fresh Wind
Tenuous Rocks
The Shadow of Victory
Talons and Clouds
Off to the USSR
The Rise and Fall of the Washington State Theatre
The Meaning of "Theatre"
The Advent of War
Recreation for All
The Cactus
Convictions Held at an Agonizing Cost
A Broken Heart
All Beginnings Come to an End
Epilogue by Rita Shelton Deverell
Appendix 1: Florence Bean James on Acting
Appendix 2: Florence Bean James on Directing
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