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Modernism’s Red Stage: Theatre and the Left in the 1930s

From: The Canadian Modernists Meet

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On the one hand, the Depression era produced a theatrical encounter between modernism and socialism on stages organized by the Canadian left. On the other hand, this convergence catalyzed multiple aesthetic and ideological transformations, and thus it demands readings that can account for the stages of socialist theatre over the course of the decade.

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Candida Rifkind

Candida Rifkind is an assistant professor in the Department of English, University of Winnipeg. At York University, she completed a dissertation entitled "Labours of Modernity: The Literary Left in English Canada,