Download or read book Lilian Baylis written by Elizabeth Schafer and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on new and original research, this biography documents the life of Lilian Baylis--an esteemed theatrical producer, manager, and the founding mother of the British National Theatre, the Royal Ballet, and the English National Opera. Setting out to discover how Baylis was able to manage two theatres and three companies, bring the very best of high culture to working people, and still haul in a profit, this biography looks beyond the famous comic anecdotes that surround her life and discovers the private woman behind the public persona. From her early career as a musician and dancer to the career-changing breaks she offered to actors such as Alec Guinness and Laurence Olivier, this insightful work reveals how Baylis achieved so much and the personal cost of her successes.
Download or read book Lilian Baylis written by Richard Findlater and published by London : Allen Lane. This book was released on 1975 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Play Pictorial written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Celebrating Shakespeare written by Clara Calvo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this collection opens up the social practices of commemoration to new research and analysis. An international team of leading scholars explores a broad spectrum of celebrations, showing how key events - such as the Easter Rising in Ireland, the Second Vatican Council of 1964 and the Great Exhibition of 1851 - drew on Shakespeare to express political agendas. In the USA, commemoration in 1864 counted on him to symbolise unity transcending the Civil War, while the First World War pulled the 1916 anniversary celebration into the war effort, enlisting Shakespeare as patriotic poet. The essays also consider how the dream of Shakespeare as a rural poet took shape in gardens, how cartoons challenged the poet's élite status and how statues of him mutated into advertisements for gin and Disney cartoons. Richly varied illustrations supplement these case studies of the diverse, complex and contradictory aims of memorialising Shakespeare.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering every kind of theatrical story and experience from the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe to the age of Stoppard and Mamet, from Richard Burbage to Richard Briers, from Nell Gwynn to Daniel Day-Lewis, from Sarah Bernhardt to Judi Dench. Players, playwrights, prompters, producers—they all feature. The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes provides a comprehensive, revealing, and hugely entertaining portrait of the world of theatre across four hundred years. Many of the anecdotes are humorous: all have something pertinent and illuminating to say about an aspect of theatrical life—whether it is the art of playwriting, the craft of covering up missed cues, the drama of the First Night, the nightmare of touring, or the secret ingredients of star quality. Edmund Kean, Henry Irving, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren—the great 'names' are all here, of course, but there are tales of the unexpected, too—and the unknown. This is a book—presented in five acts, with a suitably anecdotal and personal prologue from Gyles Brandreth—where, once in a while, the understudy takes centre-stage and Gyles Brandreth treats triumph and disaster just the same, including stories from the tattiest touring companies as well as from Broadway, the West End and theatres, large and small, in Australia, India, and across Europe.
Download or read book Georgian Portraits written by Percy Colson and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975 written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sybil Thorndike written by Jonathan Croall and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outside the theatrical profession Sybil Thorndike is no longer the household name she once was; she has become a historical figure. Yet her combative, inspiring life, her passionate concern for the state of the world as well as for her art, resonates with any age. As the actor Michael Macliammóir put it: 'Essentially English, she is yet nationless; essentially of her period, she is yet timeless.'
Download or read book Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library Washington D C written by Folger Shakespeare Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Amateur Theatre and Playwrights Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Listener written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography 1931 1940 with an index covering the years 1901 1940 in one alphabetical series First published Nov 1949 Reprinted 1965 written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The London Mercury written by Sir John Collings Squire and published by . This book was released on 1938-05 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stage and Screen Lives written by Michael Billington and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished theatre critic and presenter Michael Billington has made a personal selection taken from the Dictionary of National Biography of approximately 130 mini-biographies spanning a wide spectrum of people who have played some part in shaping the culture of the worlds of stage andscreen in Britain.This title, following on from the success of Brief Lives, which was first published in hardback in 1997 and subsequently in paperback, will be published alongside two other similar titles, Political Lives and Literary Lives.As Michael Billington details in his very entertaining introduction, the choice of entries has been based partly on the subject of the entry and partly on the individual biographer and their own insight into the life of the subject.The biographies include actors, critics, entertainers, directors, and pioneers in film and theatre.From Somerset Maugham to Eric Morecambe, Richard Burton to Noel Coward, and Tony Hancock to Alfred Hitchcock.Examples of entries:Moira Shearer on Frederick AshtonMichael Denison on Noel CowardElizabeth Pollitt on Gracie FieldsRachael Low on Cary GrantArthur Marshall on Tony HancockAlan Bennett on Russell HartyPaul Johnson on Philip Hope-WallaceRalph Richardson on Alexander KordaMargot Fonteyn on Lydia LopokovaEric Ambler on James MasonJohn Gielgud on Margaret RutherfordBarry Took on Kenneth WilliamsThe selected entries, such as those above, together create a highly readable and fascinating anthology, which gives some insight into the broader picture of the world of theatre, film, and TV in Britain as we know it today.
Download or read book A Guide to Theatre Reading written by Roy Stallings and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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