Date of Award
3-1937
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
English
First Advisor
William M. Lamers
Abstract
The decline of the professional theatre in Wisconsin, and in this country as a whole, has brought with it the rise of what is known as the Little Theatre Movement. This decline of the professional theatre has been brought about by the distraction of modern life, the cost of railroad transportation as it affects traveling companies and especially the diversion of the masses to the motion pictures. With the decline of the commercial trouping companies, many cities found themselves without any spoken drama except the synthetic production, motion pictures, which to the genuine lover of the theatre is, in a double sense, the mere echo and shadow of reality. To those smaller communities that never revived attention from the traveling shows but in which there is a yearning toward concrete dramatic representation, the dearth was, and till is felt intensely.
Recommended Citation
Rodeman, Austin Norbert Robert, "The Little Theatre Movement in Wisconsin" (1937). Bachelors’ Theses. 1316.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/1316
Included in
English Language and Literature Commons, Other Theatre and Performance Studies Commons, Theatre History Commons
Comments
A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the School of Speech of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in Speech, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.