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THE OLD VIC THEATRE
A HISTORY |
| By: |
George Rowell |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£36.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521021596 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521021593 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
25 August, 2005 |
| Pages: |
252 |
| Description: |
This is the first book to chronicle fully the history of London's Old Vic Theatre. |
| Synopsis: |
This is the first book to chronicle fully the history of London's Old Vic Theatre. After Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, the Old Vic is London's oldest theatre, with a continuous history since 1818. Drawing on important archives, both here (notably the Royal Victoria Hall's) and in the United States, George Rowell sheds new light on the management, audience, productions, and players. In particular he offers fresh information on its early years, when such famous figures as Edmund Kean and William Charles Macready appeared there, and Paganini gave his farewell concert. Throughout its history the Old Vic has served a number of purposes and provided many brands of entertainment, including spectacle, pantomime, 'blood-and-thunder melodrama', and variety. Subsequently it was used as a 'temperance hall' and working-men's college. The Theatre was the first permanent home of opera in English as well as British ballet, and, above all, the birthplace of the world-famous Old Vic Company. |
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33 b/w illus. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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