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Chiefly associated with the mild domestic realism of Tom Robertson’s comedies, Marie Wilton and Squire Bancroft with their distinctive brand of ‘wholesome fare’ attracted middle-class audiences, first...
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 developments...
The work of Jacques Copeau and his successors in French theatre, 1913-1937.
Theatre of Georgio Strehler.
6: Attempts to simulate a segment of a performance as it might have apeared around the time of the theatre’s opening. Shows part of the last scene of Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’, which was the play first...
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...
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...
One of Garrick’s last great acts of patronage was to employ Philip de Loutherbourg as his principal scenic artist at Drury Lane in 1772. Explores the origins, nature and results of this collaboration,...
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...
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...
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