Blog #21

The Federal Theatre Project was a New Deal project made to fund theatre and other artistic performances during the great depression. The main goal of it was to give out of work artists, directors and playwrights work, the secondary goal was to promote relevant art and give poor families entertainment. The project was important because it was used to stimulate the economy, most theatrical professionals were out of work because of the depression and it as used to give them all jobs so they could be put back in the economic stream. Also it really helped rising theatrical professionals, many talented people were found during this project, it really helped stimulate not only the economy but also the artistic world. One reason the federal theatre project was controversial was because they were putting limits on what people could put in plays. One of the big ones is that no figure head could be slandered in a play. This was controversial because people thought it went against the freedom of speech. Also it was controversial because people thought that the money they were putting towards theatre could be better spent in other places since it was a depression.

This was a play that was put on by the federal theatre project.

This was a very controversial play put on by the Federal Theatre Project.

A crowd of people waiting to watch macbeth put on by the Federal Theatre Project.