Oxford Playhouse
A converted hall known as the ‘Big Game’ Museum on the outskirts of Oxford was opened as a theatre in 1923 by James Fagan, with the first British performance outside ...
Oxford Playhouse Reference library
The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
... Playhouse A converted hall known as the ‘Big Game’ Museum on the outskirts of Oxford was opened as a theatre in 1923 by James Fagan , with the first British performance outside London of Heartbreak House . It offered a venue for the university drama society, OUDS, and many ambitious and artistic professional productions, including Komissarzhevsky 's 1925 production of The Cherry Orchard . After Fagan's departure in 1928 it became a more conventional repertory enterprise. In 1938 a new Playhouse was built nearer the centre of the city, and...
Oxford Playhouse Reference library
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
...Taylor appeared there in 1966 with the Oxford University Dramatic Society in a production of Marlowe 's Dr Faustus to raise money for an extension, later known as the Burton—Taylor Theatre. In all these enterprises a leading part was played by the Oxford don Nevill Coghill, who until his retirement was chairman of the theatre's governing body. Because of financial difficulties the Meadow Players ceased operations in 1973 , and were succeeded a year later by Anvil Productions (the Oxford Playhouse Company), which presented an enterprising...
Oxford Playhouse
Theatre Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...of legal protection encouraged provincial entrepreneurs to construct permanent playhouses, and the ensuing boom in theatre-building was given further stimulus by the French wars of 1793–1815 . Soldiers and sailors were inveterate playgoers, and throughout the south and east of England theatres sprang up to meet the demands of the leisure economy of wartime. In a survey made in 1803–4 , the theatre manager James Winston ( 1773–1843 ) noted the existence of 280 playhouses in places such as Abergavenny in Wales and Worksop in Derbyshire. These theatres...
The Two Noble Kinsmen Reference library
Michael Dobson
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...productions it then disappeared from the professional stage until a more symbolic, morris-dance-free revival at the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park in 1974 . Since then The Two Noble Kinsmen has been successfully revived at, among other venues, the Los Angeles Globe Playhouse ( 1979 ), the Edinburgh Festival (in a highly sexualized all-male production by the Cherub Theatre, 1979 ), the Centre Dramatique de Courneuve (also 1979 ), the Oregon Shakespeare Festival ( 1994 ), and the reconstructed Globe ( 2000 ), but its most celebrated modern...
Music Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...English Musician 1788–1888 , Oxford, 1992; Boydell, B. , Rotunda Music in Eighteenth-Century Dublin , Dublin, 1992; Ehrlich, C. , The Piano: A History , London, 1976; The Music Profession in Britain since the Eighteenth Century: A Social History , Oxford, 1985; First Philharmonic: A History of the Royal Philharmonic Society , Oxford, 1995; Fiske, R. , English Theatre Music in the Eighteenth Century , 2nd edn., Oxford, 1986; Johnstone, H. D. , & Fiske, R. , eds., Music in Britain: The Eighteenth Century , Oxford, 1990; Leppert, R. , Music...
Macbeth Reference library
Michael Dobson, Will Sharpe, Anthony Davies, and Will Sharpe
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...on the witches’ scenes would be even more spectacularly visible when the play enjoyed its next recorded revivals 50 years later. Sir William Davenant rewrote the play to suit the tastes and concerns of Restoration audiences and the scenic possibilities of Restoration playhouses in 1664 . As well as developing its opportunities for music and special effects (with singing, flying witches, a cloud for Hecate to ride, and a disappearing cavern for the apparition scene), Davenant updated the play’s interest in the Stuart monarchy, so that his usurping,...
Sensibility Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...a new sense of public decency, that is, a new order in the streets and the non-brutalization of women. That order was in part implemented by the century-long campaign for the *reformation of manners . Provoked by the post-Restoration proliferation of public pleasure centres, playhouses, and *coffeehouses , as well as of those uppity alehouses—and the freer expressions of behaviour associated with them—societies for the reformation of manners united their efforts with those of the government throughout the century [ see *popular culture, 23 ]. Adherents to...
18 Theories of Text, Editorial Theory, and Textual Criticism Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...with which those agents endow the work. The social argument has been persuasive for many areas of textual work—especially for modern Shakespeare editors, who would shift the emphasis from the book focus of the Greg–Bowers school towards the negotiation amongst playwright, playhouse, players, and audience. The extent and consequences of these challenges are real, though it has been argued that the breadth and flexibility of the Greg–Bowers position has not always been fully comprehended and that it remains a competent rationale. It has not been refuted by...
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