Impossible Plays: Adventures with the Cottesloe CompanyA&C Black, 2014 M06 1 - 256 páginas Bill Bryden's Cottesloe Company, which flourished at Peter Hall's National Theatre, was the English theatre's only true ensemble of the last thirty or so years. Impossible Plays tells the story of the company and the many actors and musicians connected to it. Co-written by Keith Dewhurst, author of eight plays for the group, and Jack Shepherd, a founder-actor, it explains the ideas behind the company's work and how the work was staged, and provides an idiosyncratic, lively and deeply personal take on the company. "The search was always to find a popular theatre, a form of theatre that would draw into it people from all backgrounds, not just the cultured and the educated." Beginning with a Royal Court Theatre Sunday night performance in 1970, the story of one company's aim to create a popular theatre form includes such milestone productions as The Mystery cycle of plays and Lark Rise to Candleford. With photographs by John Haynes, Michael Mayhew and Nobby Clark, Impossible Plays is a glorious and timely tribute to one of theatre's most innovative companies. |
Contenido
SCOTLAND | 63 |
THE NATIONAL THEATRE | 79 |
REPUTATIONS | 209 |
Whats the Score? | 220 |
A Glossary of Terms | 224 |
Acknowledgements | 236 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Impossible Plays: Adventures with the Cottesloe Company Jack Shepherd,Keith Dewhurst Vista previa limitada - 2014 |
Impossible Plays: Adventures with the Cottesloe Company Keith Dewhurst,Jack Shepherd Vista de fragmentos - 2006 |
Impossible Plays: Adventures with the Cottesloe Company Keith Dewhurst,Jack Shepherd Vista de fragmentos - 2006 |
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