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Tisch Library Undergraduate Research Award Winner, 2016. As part of the Works Progress Administration, the Federal Theatre Project created jobs for thousands of theatre artists and entertainment for millions of suffering Americans, through the ingenuity of the federal government and the Roosevelt administration. Boston was conceived as one of five major centers of this project. However, the city’s ... read moreFTP chapter suffered from the longstanding tradition of censorship put in place decades beforehand by conservative upper-class Bostonians and authorities. An early encounter with this censorship apparatus during their first major production, Valley Forge, created a poor reputation for the Boston chapter. Though the national FTP strived to produce plays with social and political importance to the communities they performed in, Boston’s company continually failed to do this because of the established system of censorship. This system both restrained the company externally, through outwardly visible legal and social means, and internally, by forcing the company to self-censor themselves.read less
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