Classics in rotation: A history of the Jean Cocteau Repertory Company.
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Title
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Classics in rotation: A history of the Jean Cocteau Repertory Company.
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Identifier
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AAI9130331
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identifier
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9130331
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Creator
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Karten, Harvey S.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Edwin Wilson
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Date
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1991
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Theater
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Abstract
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This history traces the evolution of the Jean Cocteau Repertory Company--which was founded in New York City by Eve Adamson--from its beginnings in a ramshackle storefront of a tumbledown neighborhood to its twentieth year of focus on the classics. The Cocteau Repertory, a small, off-off Broadway company with a record of financial difficulties and mixed critical notices, may owe its survival to its unswerving commitment to its mission: the presentation of classics by a resident company in rotating repertory format.;The study seeks to determine the extent to which the company maintained a focus on its mission in terms of the extent to which each production was considered successful by the company members themselves, by the audiences, and by the critics. The study will accent a political dimension. In any organization, political considerations create subtexts if they are not overt components. This political dimension consists largely of the relationship between the artistic side of the company and its commercial side, and of the many decisions that were required relating to real estate, artistic choice, and public communications.;The history, then, traces the evolution of the Cocteau from its origin--a skeletal organization whose existence was tied wholly to the talents of a single person--to its present station in a home with a Landmarks Preservation Commission designation: a group whose mission and quality have given it at once a loyal audience and an uncertainty of tenure.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
