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7 results found for '"Theatre in Focus"' in Series.
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, The: 1946-1960 (1994 Multimedia)
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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...
Stage Designs of Leslie Hurry, The (1990 Multimedia)
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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...
Charles Ricketts’ Stage Designs (1987 Multimedia)
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Slide set. Between 1906 and his death in 1931, Charles Ricketts was the foremost practising designer of his generation in England working with Shaw, Granville Barker, Yeats and Sybil Thorndike. The slides...
Voltaire and Tragedy (1987 Multimedia)
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- Theatre in Focus
Slide set. Voltaire was the dominant figure in French dramatic production in the 18th century, and his influence as a tragedian spread throughout Europe. The slide set surveys his contribution to the...
William Poel and the Elizabethan Stage Society (1987 Multimedia)
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- Theatre in Focus
Slide set. Photographs of William Poel’s productions, especially those which he mounted for the Elizabethan Stage Society between 1893 and 1905. Also illustrations showing both how Poel’s work was...
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, The: 1919-1945 (1984 Multimedia)
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- Theatre in Focus
Slide set. 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...
Theatre of Roger Planchon, The (1984 Multimedia)
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- Theatre in Focus
An account of the life and achievement of one of France’s foremost contemporary directors. Shows the establishing of his company in Villeurbanne in 1950, the particular quality of the repertory he has...