 | Literature - 1920 - 690 pages
...should be the lines of the new drama. First, the people's theatre "must be a recreation". It must give "a sort of physical and moral rest to the workingman, weary from his day's work". Second, "the theatre ought to be a source of energy" — that is, it should show action on large and... | |
 | Eugène Van Erven - Performing Arts - 1988 - 260 pages
...that a people's theatre should be a pleasure, a sort of physical and moral rest to the working man weary from his day's work. It will be the task of the architects of the future People's Theatre to see that cheap seats are not instruments of inquisitional torture. It will be the task of... | |
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... themselves : the people of today and the people of tomorrow; those of a certain part of a certain city, and those of a part of another city. We cannot presume to do more than establish an average, more or less applicable to the people of Paris at... 