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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Colin ChambersPublisher: Salamander Street Limited Imprint: Salamander Street Limited ISBN: 9781913630164ISBN 10: 1913630161 Pages: 488 Publication Date: 01 October 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword 1 Under African Skies Roots – Parents – Birth – Childhood – Education – Marriage 2 If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be Macbeth In England – Separation – Touring Opera – Acting – Bill Roderick – Bristol Old Vic – Q Theatre – Becoming an Agent 3 Opening Gambit Starting Out – First Year – John Holmstrom – Peter Hall and Waiting for Godot – Eugène Ionesco – Robert Bolt 4 Iron In The Soul New Landscape – John Osborne – Ann Jellicoe – John Mortimer – Peters and Ramsay – Michael Codron – Michael Meyer – The Arts Theatre – James Saunders – Charles Wood – Henry Livings – Northerners – Alan Plater – David Mercer – David Rudkin – Peter Nichols – Alan Ayckbourn 5 Tie Ruffian On The Stair Frank Marcus – Joe Orton – Kenneth Halliwell 6 Queen Bee Independence – Attempted Takeovers – In Brighton – In the Office – Visiting Peggy – Views on Talent, Writers, Partners, Sexuality – Jean Rhys 7 At Court Christopher Hampton – the Royal Court – George Devine – William Gaskill – Oscar Lewenstein – Edward Bond – Caryl Churchill – Max Stafford-Clark 8 For the Love of Talent Subsidised Theatre – Commissioning – Hampstead Theatre Club – RSC and NT – the Fringe – Steve Gooch – Censorship – Anti-Apartheid – Mustapha Matura – Martin Sherman – John McGrath – John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy – Willy Russell – Stephen Poliakoff – Wallace Shawn – David Hare 9 Memento Mori Illness – Last Years – Death of Bill Roderick – Fire – Peggy’s Death – New Firm – Foundation – Tribute” Notes List of ClientsReviewsAuthor InformationColin Chambers is Emeritus Professor of Drama at Kingston University. Colin was Literary Manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1981 to 1997, and has also been a journalist and theatre critic. He is co-author with Richard Nelson of Kenneth’s First Play and Tynan (both Royal Shakespeare Company), and he selected and edited for performance Three Farces by John Maddison Morton, which were produced at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. As well as editing the Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre, Colin has written extensively on the theatre including Other Spaces: New Writing and the RSC, Playwrights’ Progress (with Michael Prior), The Story of Unity Theatre, Peggy: The Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent (winner of the inaugural Theatre Book Prize), Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company, Here We Stand: Politics, Performers and Performance – Paul Robeson, Isadora Duncan and Charlie Chaplin and Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History. Peggy to Her Playwrights: The Letters of Margaret Ramsay, play agent was published to critical acclaim in 2018. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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