"When the Last Shriek Has Died Away": On Orson Welles's Doctor Faustus and the Memory of Popular Theatre. Issue 3 (September 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Vatain-Corfdir, Julie
• Is Part Of: TDR. Volume 66:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 119
• Page End: 132
• Publication Date: 2022-09
• Subjects: Theater -- Periodicals; Theater -- Political aspects -- Periodicals; Theater and society -- Periodicals; Experimental theater -- Periodicals; Théâtre -- Périodiques; Experimental theater; Theater; Theater and society; Theater -- Political aspects; Aspect politique; Aspect social; Société; Théâtre (Spectacle); Théâtre expérimental; Periodicals; 792.05
• DOI: 10.1017/S105420432200034X
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1365-7518

Abstract

Abstract : In 1927, Orson Welles directed Marlowe's Doctor Faustus for the Federal Theatre Project, in an original interpretation of Hallie Flanagan's dream of a "people's theatre." While the available archives allow for an examination of Welles's experiment in popular classicism and invite comparisons with the work of French theatre-makers, they also call for an awareness of the part played by our imagination in such retrospective research.