Author: ThespisPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Daughters of Thespis, Or A Peep Behind the Curtain
Author: ThespisThe Old Vic
Author: Terry ColemanPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571311261
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The Old Vic, one of the world's great theatres, opened in 1818 with rowdy melodrama and continued with Edmund Kean in Richard III howled down by the audience. One impresario, among the first of thirteen to go bankrupt there, fled to Milan and ran La Scala. In 1848 a chorus girl tried to murder the leading lady. In 1870 the Vic became a music hall, then a temperance tavern and, from 1912, under Lilian Baylis, both an opera house and the home of Shakespeare. By the 1930s great actors were happy to go there for a pittance - John Gielgud, Charles Laughton, Peggy Ashcroft, and Laurence Olivier. The Vic considered itself a national theatre in all but name. After the second world war the Royal Ballet and the English National Opera both sprang from the Vic, and the National Theatre, at last established in 1963 under Olivier, made its first home there. In 1980 the Vic was saved from becoming a bingo hall by a generous Toronto businessman. Since 2004 Kevin Spacey, Hollywood actor and the winner of two Oscars, has led a new company there, and toured the world.
Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part IV, Volume 2
Author: Gail MarshallPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040128904
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Features three female actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare.
British Drama of the Industrial Revolution
Author: Frederick BurwickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110711165X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Frederick Burwick reveals how the most volatile developments in British drama from the 1790s to 1830s took place in the industrial provinces.
English Theatrical Literature, 1559-1900
Author: James Fullarton ArnottPublisher: London : Society for Theatre Research
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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