1922 Carolina Folk Plays Frederick H Koch Hardcover Illustrated Book

Description: Notable Features: About the Book:FOLK-PLAY MAKINGBY FREDERICK H. KOCHFounder of The Dakota Playmakers and The Carolina PlaymakersThe Carolina Folk-Plays suggest the beginnings of a new native theatre. They are pioneer plays of North Carolina life. The stories and characters are drawn by the writers from their own tradition, and from their observation of the lives of their own people.They are wholly native-simple plays of the locality, of common experience and of common interest. North Carolina is rich in legends and in historical incident; she is rich too in the variety and virility of her present- day life. There is in these plays something of the tang of the Carolina soil. There is something of the isolation of her mountains and their sheltering coves; something of the sun and the wind of the farm lands; of the shadowy thickets of Scuffletown Swamp; some- thing, too, of the loneliness of the lives of the fisher- folk on the shifting banks of Nags Head or Cape Lookout.They were written by sons and daughters of Carolina, at Chapel Hill, the seat of the state university. They have been produced with enthusiasm and success by The Carolina Playmakers in their own town and in many towns all over the state. The Carolina Play- makers is a group of amateurs-amateurs in the original and full sense of the word-devoted to the establishment of a theatre of coöperative folk-arts. Not a single cloth has been painted by an outsider. Everything has been designed and made in the home town in a truly communal way.To be sure they are plays of a single section, of a single state, North Carolina. But they have a wider significance. We know that if we speak for the human nature in our own neighborhood we shall be expressing for all. The locality, if it be truly interpreted, is the only universal. It has been so in all lasting literature. And in every locality all over America, as here in North Carolina to-day, there is the need and the striving for a fresh expression of our common folk life.About the Author/Editor: Frederick Henry Koch (born September 12, 1877, in Covington, Kentucky – died August 16, 1944, in Miami Beach) was an important figure in American theater and is known as the "father of American folk drama." He founded the Carolina Playmakers at the University of North Carolina and helped bring folk drama to national attention. Koch earned his bachelor’s degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1900 and a master’s degree from Harvard University in 1909. He began teaching at the University of North Dakota in 1905, where he started the Dakota Playmakers in 1910. In 1918, he moved to the University of North Carolina, where he introduced a playwriting course and started the Carolina Playmakers. This group became the first state-supported theater in the U.S. and traveled around the Southeast, performing folk plays. He also helped create a playwriting school in Banff, Canada. Koch’s influence was widespread, with famous students like Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Anderson, and Paul Green crediting him for shaping their careers. He played a key role in the Little Theatre movement and helped make theater more respected in schools. He edited eleven volumes of folk plays during his career.Condition:The dust cover is missing. The spine is discolored probably from sunlight. There are stains and scuffs on the cover. There is foxing on the inside covers and on a few of the first pages. Book is clean and the binding is tight. Shipping and Return InformationI am happy to combine shipping. I ship daily for fast delivery.Books are wrapped in paper, bubble wrapped and most are mailed in a bubble mailer while others are mailed in boxes.Postcards and photographs are bagged and mailed in a rigid cardboard envelope.Magazines are bagged, boarded and mailed in a rigid flat lay cardboard envelope. Artwork is bagged and mailed flat between two pieces of cardboard. I offer free, no questions asked returns.

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