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The slides illustrate the characteristics of Noh theatre, which has survived unchanged since the 14th century. They show the Noh as the first theatre to put into practice the principle of economy. They also...
The origins and practice of Balinese ritual theatre are examined. Its function in Balinese consciousness and culture as a channel through which the gods and ancestal spirits manifest themselves has ensured...
In the early 19th century the theatres of the Boulevard du Temple and the Théatre de la Porte Saint-Martin were popular theatres offering entertainment to the inhabitants of the most densely populated part...
Irish actor and dramatist Dion Boucicault was one of the major providers of popular entertainment for the London and New York theatre of the 19th century. The touring productions of his long-run successes...
Slide set. Since its opening in 1879 the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1961, has won worldwide acclaim for the staging of Shakespeare’s plays. The slides show the...
Leslie Hurry produced the stage designs for some 60 plays, operas and ballets between 1942 and his death in 1978. His first commission was Robert Helpmann’s ballet Hamlet and as a designer for the Royal...
Charles Morton’s famous Canterbury Hall was a big song room - a hall attached to a tavern where eating and drinking customers were provided with a varied, mainly vocal entertainment. The music hall...
The Gate Theatre was the creation in the 1920s of Hilton Edwards and Micheál macLiammóir, two of Ireland’s most illustrious and colourful stage personalities - the one a director of sensitivity and an...
Pirandello’s prolific dramatic output in the twenties and thirties was to exercise a profound influence in the subsequent development of European drama. He succeeded in demonstrating in theatrical terms...
Slide set. Between 1906 and his death in 1931, Charles Ricketts was the foremost practising designer of his generation in England working with Shaw, Granville Barker, Yeats and Sybil Thorndike. The slides...
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