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Aiming to capture the essence and spirit of the Eden Valley over the past several years, this book gives an account of one man's addictive love of this area of subtle beauty. It is suitable for Cumbrians and all those who enjoy the countryside. It also includes memories of events and customs.
Stranded in the wrong universe! Jacob Tunney lost his wife to cancer and his career to alcoholism. But he'd begun his climb back to sanity and found the woman he could happily spend the rest of his life with. Suddenly he is transported to another universe and she is left behind. He must find his way back to her!
In Richard Barr: The Playwright’s Producer, author David A. Crespy investigates the career of one of the theatre’s most vivid luminaries, from his work on the film and radio productions of Orson Welles to his triumphant—and final—production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Explored in detail along the way are the producer’s relationship with playwright Edward Albee, whose major plays such as A Zoo Story and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Barr was the first to produce, and his innovative productions of controversial works by playwrights like Samuel Beckett, Terrence McNally, and Sam Shepard. Crespy draws on Barr’s own writings on the theatre, his personal papers, and more than sixty interviews with theatre professionals to offer insight into a man whose legacy to producers and playwrights resounds in the theatre world. Also included in the volume are a foreword and an afterword by Edward Albee, a three-time Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and one of Barr’s closest associates.
Documents the career and contributions of the popular film actor and director, describing his breakout performance in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," his activist role in support of endangered species conservation, and his relationships with Hollywood contemporaries.
This is the story of a love affair with the music of George Frederic Handel.It records a half-century of pursuing performances across Europe in a spirit of pure hedonism .... including 70 different baroque operas and 35 oratorios in 75 cities.The great Handel Festivals in Göttingen, Halle, Karlsuhe and London are visited as are the major opera houses and concert halls plus civic theatres, large, fringe and digital.Handel is placed in his baroque context by accounts of performances of opera and music by his contemporaries.This not a critical work. The author loves his subject much too much for tha