In 1931, Hallie Flanagan and Margaret Ellen Clifford’s agitprop play, Can You Hear Their Voices? was performed at Vassar College, where Flanagan’s experimental theater brought cutting-edge theatrical staging and bold new drama to students and the public. This play’s subject—starving farm families in the drought-ridden midwest of the Great Depression surrounded by corporate greed—aroused the activism in the students, who became involved in fighting for ...
Event Location:
Boston, MA
Event type:
Event
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Sponsoring Organization(s) :
Northeast Modern Language Assoc.( NeMLA)
Event date:
Thursday, March 21, 2013 to Sunday, March 24, 2013
Abstract due date:
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Event Name:
NEMLA 2013
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