Extraordinary actors : essays on popular performers : studies in honor of Peter Thomson
Jane Milling (Editor), Martin Banham (Editor), Peter Thomson
"The essays in this volume are concerned with extraordinary acting, and investigate the relationship between actor and audience. Each author sets the performer and their work in cultural context, so that the collection as a whole charts the changing relationship between acting and popular culture during the last four hundred years." "The collection allows the reader to chart the changing shape of popular performance from the music hall, trestle stage, amphitheatre and community hall, to the mass audiences of musical comedy, television and film."--BOOK JACKET
Biography
256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780859897358, 0859897354
52531103
Part I: The idea of acting extraordinary actors of the 17th and 18th century: Introduction, Martin Banham, Richard Burbage, Alexander LeggattCommedia dell'arte in Russia - Popular Satiric Perfomers in the 18th Century, Laurence SenelickThomas Betterton - The Art of Playing, Jane MillingPART II: The celebrated actor as cultural icon - extraordinary actors of the 19th century: Introduction, Chris McCulloughBritish Invasions on the American Stage, Don WilmethActing and the Austere Joys of Motherhood - Sarah Siddons Performs Maternity, Jan McDonaldThe Brothers Fay - Irish Acting and the Origins of the Abbey Theatre, Ger FitzgibbonGertie Millar: Celebrity and Musical Comedy, Viv GardnerPART III: Acting for popular audiences, the mass and the local extraordinary actors of the 20th centuryIntroduction, Jane MillingLena Ashwell and the Once A-Week Players - Popular Performers in London, Chris DymkowskiPeter Lorre - A Clash of European and US Acting Styles, Chris McCulloughGeorge Formby and the Northern Sublime, Baz KershawLeo Fuchs - Yiddish Vaudevillian, Joel Schechter; Laurel and Hardy and Morecambe and Wise - Comedy Double Acts, Richard BoonPlaying on the Front Foot - Actors and Audience in British Popular Theatre 1970-1990, Colin Chambers and Maggie SteedMark Rylance - Popular acting at the Globe Theatre, Martin White.