One Third of a Nattion

Arthur Arent’s brilliant contemporary political documentary masterpiece 'One-Third of a Nation' exploded onto the Broadway stage at the Adelphi Theatre in 1938, running for an astonishing 237 performances to stand as the most commercially successful Living Newspaper production in history under the banner of the Federal Theatre Project. Conceived as a blisteringly fast weapon against capitalistic corporate greed, the non-linear documentary turns a massive, multi-tiered tenement scenic architecture into a cockpit battlefield.