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Author : Walter Macqueen-Pope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Indiscreet Guide to Theatreland written by Walter Macqueen-Pope and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah Philips
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135017422X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book And This Is My Friend Sandy written by Deborah Philips and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates the production of The Boy Friend and the Players' Theatre in the context of a post-war London and reads The Boy Friend, and Wilson's later work, as exercises in contemporary camp. It argues for Wilson as a significant and transitional figure both for musical theatre and for modes of homosexuality in the context of the pre-Wolfenden 1950s. Sandy Wilson's The Boy Friend is one of the most successful British musicals ever written. First produced at the Players' Theatre Club in London in 1953 it transferred to the West End and Broadway, making a star out of Julie Andrews and gave Twiggy a leading role in Ken Russell's 1971 film adaptation. Despite this success, little is known about Wilson, a gay writer working in Britain in the 1950s at a time when homosexuality was illegal. Drawing on original research assembled from the Wilson archives at the Harry Ransom Center, this is the first critical study of Wilson as a key figure of 1950s British theatre. Beginning with the often overlooked context of the Players' Theatre Club through to Wilson's relationship to industry figures such as Binkie Beaumont, Noël Coward and Ivor Novello, this study explores the work in the broader history of Soho gay culture. As well as a critical perspective on The Boy Friend, later works such as Divorce Me, Darling!, The Buccaneer and Valmouth are examined as well as uncompleted musical versions of Pygmalion and Goodbye to Berlin to give a comprehensive and original perspective on one of British theatre's most celebrated yet overlooked talents.
Author : Roman Iwaschkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317223446
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Popular Music written by Roman Iwaschkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive guide to popular music literature, first published in 1986. Its main focus is on American and British works, but it includes significant works from other countries, making it truly international in scope.
Author : Maggie B. Gale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351397192
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900-1939 written by Maggie B. Gale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new social history of British performance cultures in the early decades of the twentieth century, where performance across stage and screen was generated by dynamic and transformational industries. Exploring an era book-ended by wars and troubled by social unrest and political uncertainty, A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900–1939 makes use of the popular material cultures produced by and for the industries – autobiographies, fan magazines and trade journals, as well as archival holdings, popular sketches, plays and performances. Maggie B. Gale looks at how the performance industries operated, circulated their products and self-regulated their professional activities, in a period where enfranchisement, democratization, technological development and legislation shaped the experience of citizenship. Through close examination of material evidence and a theoretical underpinning, this book shows how performance industries reflected and challenged this experience, and explored the ways in which we construct our ‘performance’ as participants in the public realm. Suited not only to scholars and students of British theatre and theatre history, but to general readers as well, A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900–1939 offers an original intervention into the construction of British theatre and performance histories, offering new readings of the relationship between the material cultures of performance, the social, professional and civic contexts from which they arise, and on which they reflect.
Author : Naomi Paxton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152611481X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Stage rights! written by Naomi Paxton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stage rights! explores the work and legacy of the first feminist political theatre group of the twentieth century, the Actresses' Franchise League. Formed in 1908 to support the suffrage movement through theatre, the League and its membership opened up new roles for women on stage and off, challenged stereotypes of suffragists and actresses, created new work inspired by the movement and was an integral part of the performative propaganda of the campaign. Introducing new archival material to both suffrage and theatre histories, this book is the first to focus in detail on the Actresses' Franchise League, its membership and its work. The volume is formulated as a historiographically innovative critical biography of the organisation over the fifty years of its activities, and invites a total reassessment of the League within the accepted narratives of the development of political theatre in the UK.
Author : Dagmar Kift
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521474726
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Music Hall written by Dagmar Kift and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of the occasional local case study, music-hall history has until now been presented as the history of the London halls. This book attempts to redress the balance by setting music-hall history within a national perspective. Kift also sheds a new light on the roles of managements, performers and audiences. For example, the author confutes the commonly held assumption that most women in the halls were prostitutes and shows them to have been working women accompanied by workmates of both sexes or by their families. She argues that before the 1890s the halls catered predominantly to working-class and lower middle-class audiences of men and women of all ages and were instrumental in giving them a strong and self-confident identity. The hall's ability to sustain a distinct class-awareness was one of their greatest strengths - but this factor was also at the root of many of the controversies which surrounded them. These controversies are at the centre of the book and Kift treats them as test cases for social relations which provide fresh insights into nineteenth-century British society and politics.
Author : Leslie Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349097594
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Modern British Farce written by Leslie Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-06-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the popular modern dramatists and the continuity of the farce tradition from Pinero to Travers, the Whitehall team and Orton which examines and questions some of the common assumptions about its nature. Farce techniques are shown to be increasingly used in serious drama.
Author : Milner Library
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Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Descriptive and Bibliographic Catalog of the Circus & Related Arts Collection at Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois written by Milner Library and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Macqueen-Pope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book An Indiscreet Guide to Theatreland written by Walter Macqueen-Pope and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Macqueen-Pope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Shirtfronts and Sables written by Walter Macqueen-Pope and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Theatre Digest written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Antiquarian Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1754 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Who's who in the Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Clique written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
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Download or read book British Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Drama League. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Player's Library; the Catalog of the Library of the British Drama League written by British Drama League. Library and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Robert Addison
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Who's who written by Henry Robert Addison and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 3412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."
