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The Honourable Beast
John Dexter, monstre sacre of the rehearsal room, was one of the great directors of theatre and opera. At the Royal Court and National Theatre in London, in the West End and on Broadway, he worked with the cream of the British and American theatres. For seven groundbreaking, turbulent years he was the creative power at the Metropolitan Opera, where he staged both 19th and 20th century repertory. Well-known as an outspoken correspondent and candid diarist, Dexter kept detailed production notebooks. He was embarked on a book when he died in 1990; out of this material has come this posthumous autobiography, called after one of his favourite nicknames, 'the honourable beast'. This is a director'...
Shouting in the Evenings
In 1963, a young man from Limerick took his £25 savings and journeyed to London to become an actor. To pay his way through drama school he worked as a security guard (once for The Beatles) and served drinks to Miss World contestants at the Lyceum Theatre, then a Mecca Ballroom. While still a student, he was picked to play a small role in Andorra in the inaugural season of the National Theatre at the Old Vic... Fifty years later, while appearing in his fifty-sixth NT production – Pirandello’s Liolà – he was invited by Director Nicholas Hytner to take part in 50 Years on Stage, the NT’s anniversary celebration. Four days on, he is on stage in New York for the Press Night of Trevor Nu...
A Side of Sabotage
For decades, Gusty's Café has been a beloved staple in Maiden Rock, Maine. Quinnie Boyd's dad runs the café, just like Quinnie's granddad before him. But the family business has new competition when a bad-boy chef from Boston opens his own place in the small vacation town. The new restaurant takes fancy dining to the extreme. Still, that's not a crime . . . but when things start to go wrong at Gusty's, Quinnie suspects foul play. Are the people behind Restaurant Hubert trying to squash the Boyds' family café? Quinnie is about to find out if it is a coincidence—or sabotage.
As You Like It
As You Like It has sometimes seemed a subversive play that exposes the instability of gender roles and traditional values. In other eras it has been prized - or derided - as a reliable celebration of conventional social mores. The play's ability to compass these extremes tells an interesting story about changing cultural and theatrical practices. This edition provides a detailed history of the play in production, both on stage and on screen. The introduction examines how changing conceptions of gender roles have affected the portrayal of Rosalind, one of Shakespeare's greatest comic heroines. The striking differences between the British tradition and the freer treatment the play has received abroad are discussed, as well as the politics of court versus country. The commentary, printed alongside the New Cambridge edition of the text, draws on primary sources to illuminate how costuming, stage business, design, and directorial choices have shaped the play in performance.
Played in Britain
Published in collaboration with the V&A, Modern British Theatre in 100 Plays explores the best and most influential plays from 1945 to date. Fully illustrated with photos from the V&A's collections, the book includes essays, review excerpts, plot summaries, extracts and insight into stage and costume designs.
Don't Leave Me
Twenty-two year old Dominic had been sailing his boat down the Intracoastal Waterway to find himself and he found Danielle instead at the Isle of Palms. Suddenly, he wanted whatever she did because he loved her. Her world became his. But, Danielle was used to putting everyone else’s needs before her own. She worked in her mother’s shop until her mother sold it. She went traveling with her boyfriend because it was what he wanted and to get away from home for awhile. When would she put her needs first? Danielle felt that when she was with Dominic, they were almost breathing as one. Until a moment of terror, which tore them apart. After a few more tries, Dominic is once again looking at Danielle’s artwork. This time realizing how they can be together and breathe as one, once again, for now and always. First love, sweet and passionate, ever hopeful, always triumphs.
Frederick Ashton
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Stage Lighting Design
Pilbrown covers the history, theory and practice of lighting design, including a section dealing with all the technical data today's designer will need, and interviews with 14 other lighting designers, as well as details of his own career.
LIFE
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
The World Of Opera: Mozart
A new and popular biography that will appeal to all those who love the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and who would like to know more about his operas and the life he lived. Perhaps Mozart's operas -- more than any of the other forms in which he composed -- hint most at his "divine discontent", and reveal how this child prodigy turned into a genius who could see into the human heart.
