Download or read book Vic Wells Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Offspring of the Vic written by Denis Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1958.The history of Morley College provides an illuminating case-history of the growth and spread of adult education in the second half of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries. Morley College is unique in that it was one of the first of such institutions to proclaim and inculcate absolute sex and class equality. It has always been guided by democratic principles in the sense that the students have been encouraged to play a definite part in the administration of the college – an ethos which continues to this day.
Download or read book Opera for Everybody written by Susie Gilbert and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susie Gilbert traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums of the Cut, where it was conceived as a vehicle of social reform, through two world wars, and via Sadler's Wells to its great glory days at the Coliseum and beyond. Setting the company's artistic achievements within the wider context of social and political attitudes to the arts and the ever-changing theatrical style, Gilbert provides a vivid cultural history of this unique institution's 150 years. Inspired by the idealism of Lilian Baylis, the company has been based on the belief that opera in the vernacular can not only reach out to even the least privileged members of society but also create a potent and immediate communication with its audience. With full access to ENO's archive, Gilbert has unearthed a rich range of material and held numerous interviews with a fascinating array of personalities, to weave an absorbing tale of life both in front and behind the scenes of ENO as it developed over the years.
Download or read book Performing Early Modern Drama Today written by Pascale Aebischer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent performances of early modern plays are analysed in essays by practitioners and academics, featuring critical, pedagogical and practical approaches.
Download or read book The Legacy of Katharine Hepburn written by Maryann Pasda Diedwardo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LEGACY OF KATHARINE HEPBURN: Fine Art as a Way of Life Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo Memoir The legacy of the late Katharine Hepburn undeniably benefits a twenty-first century audience, because Kate identifies the artistic spirit. As one of the most important women of the twentieth century, Hepburn was an artist who exemplified the independent character, freedom and opportunity available to women as paramount whether she was on stage or in film. As the late Hepburn, she has become a living art spirit with a legacy that acts as a shining example.
Download or read book Rescuers Speaking written by Wilfred Harrison and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pp. 1-19 contain an introduction by Harrison to the play, a documentary about Holocaust rescuers, first performed in London in July 1988. The play is based on research on the altruistic motivations and characters of rescuers, as elucidated by Samuel p. and Pearl M. Oliner. The "stories" or accounts of rescuers, and partly of rescuees, are taken directly from their responses to the questionnaire distributed by the Oliners. Describes the background, the writing, and the presentation of the play.
Download or read book Theatre Body and Pleasure written by Simon Shepherd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking new ground in the study of performance theory, this maverick and powerful project from renowned Renaissance scholar and queer theorist Simon Shepherd presents a unique take on theory and the physical reality of theatre. Examining a range of material, Theatre, Body, Pleasure addresses a significant gap in the literary and drama studies arenas and explores the interplay of bodily value, the art of bodies and the physical responses to that art. It explains first how the body makes meaning and carries value. Then it describes the relationships between time and space and body. The book’s features include: * large historical range, from medieval to postmodern * case studies offering close readings of written texts * examples of how to ‘read for the body’, exploring written text as a ‘discipline’ of the body * breadth of cultural reference, from stage plays through to dance culture * a range of theoretical approaches, including dance analysis and phenomenology Writing in accessible prose, Shepherd introduces new ways of analyzing dramatic text and has produced a book which is part theatre history, part dramatic criticism and part theatrical tour de force. Students of drama, theatre and performance studies and cultural studies will find this an absolute must read.
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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 Erotic Vagrancy written by Roger Lewis and published by riverrun. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of the very best biographies I have ever read' STEPHEN FRY 'A hot thunderstorm of a book' DAVID HARE 'Erotic Vagrancy gave me a week of pure joy' CRAIG BROWN 'Unputdownable' TONY PALMER 'A genius writer' LYNN BARBER Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsome face, looked as though lit by silver moonlight - poised to turn into a wolf. Roger Lewis uses this glamorous and damaged pair as the starting point to tell the story of an age of excess: the freaks and groupies, the private jets and jewels and the yachts sailing in an azure sea; the magnificent bad taste and greed. It is about the clash of worlds: the filth and decay of South Wales and the grandeur and elegance of Old Hollywood; the fantasies we have about film stars and the fantasies the Burtons had about each other.
Download or read book The Old Vic Theatre written by George Rowell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home of opera in English, as well as British ballet. Above all it was the birthplace of the world-famous Old Vic Company and saw the first appearances of Britain's National Theatre Company, directed by Laurence Olivier. Among the actors to perform at the Old Vic were John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Charles Laughton, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. The book contains numerous illustrations from the early years of the Theatre and of important productions. It includes a.
Download or read book John Maynard Keynes Critical Assessment written by John Cunningham Wood and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introductions Notes and Commentaries to Texts in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker Volume 1 Sir Thomas More Dekker s Addition The Shoemakers Holiday Old Fortunatus Patient Grissil Satiromastix Sir Thomas Wyatt written by Cyrus Hoy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-10-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four of the plays in this volume are based on important source materials, so that the relationship of plays to sources looms large in Cyrus Hoy's introductory essays. There is an extensive account of the relation of The Shoemakers' Holiday to Deloney's Gentle Craft. The Introduction to Old Fortunatus relates in detail that play's relationship to the German Volksbuch, and to the German Comoedia von Fortunate und seinem Seckel und Wünschhütlein (1620), a redaction of Dekker's play. The Introduction to Patient Grissil relates Dekker, Chettle and Haughton's play to the tradition of the Griselda story generally. The chronicle-history sources (Foxe, Grafton, Stow, Holinshed) of Sir Thomas Wyatt are surveyed in the Introduction, in his Introduction also, Professor Hoy considers the play's relationship to the lost play, Lady Jane, by Dekker, Chettle, Heywood, Webster and W. Smith. Satiromastix has no known source, but as Dekker's contribution to the stage quarrel of Marston and Jonson, this is a play that has always had particular interest for the student of Elizabethan theatrical history, and Professor Hoy therefore bestows on it the most elaborate Commentary in all these four volumes.
Download or read book Europe Dancing written by Andree Grau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe Dancing examines the dance cultures and movements which have developed in Europe since the Second World War. Nine countries are represented in this unique collaboration between European dance scholars. The contributors chart the art form, and discuss the outside influences which have shaped it. This comprehensive book explores: * questions of identity within individual countries, within Europe, and in relation to the USA * the East/West cultural division * the development of state subsidy for dance * the rise of contemporary dance as an 'alternative' genre * the implications for dance of political, economic and social change. Useful historical charts are included to trace significant dance and political events throughout the twentieth century in each country. Never before has this information been gathered together in one place. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in dance and its growth and development in recent years.
Download or read book London written by Lewis Foreman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential companion to musical London
