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A Repertory of Five Plays, [193-]. 'The New York State Federal Theatre - in - A Repertory of Five Plays - Staged by Charles Hopkins - Shakespeare's Coriolanus - George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion - Eugene O'Neill's Diff'rent - Ernst Toller's No More Peace - Clyde Fitch's Capt. Jinks - Maxine Elliott's Theatre'. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935, was designed to conserve and develop the skills of theater workers, re-employ them on public relief, and to bring theater to thousands in the United States who had never before seen live theatrical performances.