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As a tiny part of the New Deal, Hallie Flanagan helped create the Federal Theatre Project in 1935, where the US government funded unemployed actors to make free plays available to all. A big part of those were Living Newspapers: researchers became playwrights and wrote about current events lifted from the headlines to inform people.
The very first Living Newspaper was a hilarious tragedy. “Ethiopia” by Arthur Arent was all about how being invaded during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War was ravaging the country.
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