Travelback in time, to America, mainly the 1950's and hear what happened and why ithappened. How and when did it end? Or did it end? Or waitingto awake again? How come so few people, whether in American orabroad, know about this? To rehearse or not?
What was themarked difference in the way the two communities - West Coast, movies, and EastCoast, theatre - dealt with the congressional investigations, the ensuingfallout, and the McCarthy-Era blacklist? How did one prepare? Howcome the lawyers were so inadequate and frequently did not prepare theirwitnesses for the investigations? The First Amendment to theConstitution vs. The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution?
The roles, theperceptions of union membership. What was is meant by the quote? “Give the actor a stage, without which he simply does not exist. Not a stage in a court room. A stage in a theater. His judgewill never be a Congressional Committee. It will always be theaudience”
Let's Travel's guest is:
K. Kevyne Baar, Ph.D., and Certified Archivist, (CA), a specialist in performing arts unions, teaches a course on the Entertainment Industry and the Blacklist Era for the history department at New York University, (NYU), in New York City. She is also an archivist at the Tamiment Library / Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, at NYU.
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