Murray, Gilbert Reference library
The Companion to Theatre and Performance
...1915 ; Lillah *McCarthy as Hecuba). Particularly influential to America's *Little Theatre and university theatre movements, Murray was *Shaw 's model for Cusins in Major Barbara . Associated with the Cambridge School of Anthropologists ( see origins of theatre ), Murray's passion for civilization led to work with the League of Nations. Gwen...
Murray, Gilbert Reference library
Gwen Orel
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
... ( 1915 ; Lillah McCarthy as Hecuba). Particularly influential to America's Little Theatre and university theatre movements, Murray was Shaw 's model for Cusins in Major Barbara . Associated with the Cambridge School of Anthropologists ( see origins of theatre ), Murray's passion for civilization led to work with the League of Nations. Gwen...
sport Reference library
Dennis Kennedy
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
...partly because it required so little specialized equipment. A series of parliamentary Acts after 1847 gradually released British industrial workers on Saturday afternoons, which were often used to play or watch football, establishing the game as part of what Guttmann calls ‘proletarian leisure’. By the end of the century local clubs were common, matches and leagues became regulated, and some payments were made to players. The stage was set for the huge commercial development of professional sport that spread globally and incorporated many other amateur...
pantomime, British Reference library
David Mayer
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
...talents lay in dancing and devising spectacles . Under the stage name of Lun, Rich developed the role of Harlequin and the range of traits which made this endlessly reusable stage character the hero of the English harlequinade. Rich was agile and dexterous, able to sustain remarkable mime illusions, such as that of a chick-like Harlequin stirring, pecking through shell, and eventually hatching from an egg. Moreover, Rich gave his Harlequin the power to create stage magic in league with offstage craftsmen who operated trick scenery . Armed with a magic...
National Theatre (London) Reference library
The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
...for a powerful Merchant of Venice ( 1999 ), with Henry Goodman outstanding as Shylock. With further restrictions on public subsidy and an intensifying debate on the meaning of the nation, Nunn faced a big challenge to give the NT a new identity at the dawn of the new millennium. In 2001 it was announced that the challenge would be handed on to Nicholas Hytner as his successor in Spring 2003 . Colin Chambers S. Callow , The National (1997) J. Elsom and N. Tomalin , The History of the National Theatre (1978) T. Godwin , Britain's Royal...
New Zealand Reference library
The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
...Zealand For most of its first 100 years New Zealand was frequently described as the ‘Britain of the South’; for those who were of British descent, the majority of the population, Britain was ‘Home’. Yet as New Zealand approached its sesquicentenary in 1990 its mixed population of indigenous Maori people, Europeans descended from the early settlers and recent immigrants began a process of re-assessment. Inevitably the theatre played a role in this evolution from British colony to independent Pacific nation. As New Zealanders have sought to find and...
women in theatre Reference library
The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
...the network of Left Book Club Theatre Groups) included plays on women's issues, and a rather more secular organization, the Arts League of Service Travelling Theatre (inspired by the League of Nations) functioned during the interwar years ( 1919–37 ), managed and produced by Eleanor Elder , putting on plays including those by Augusta Gregory . The Unity Theatre Movement included, as one of its great successes, Men Should Weep , by Glasgow writer Ena Lamont Stewart . First performed in the 1930s, it was revived during a later resurgence of activism on...
