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Questors, Jesters and Renegades: The Story of Britain's Amateur Theatre de Michael Coveney

Questors, Jesters and Renegades: The Story of Britain's Amateur Theatre

Autor Michael Coveney
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 mar 2020
Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2021This is the vital story of the amateur theatre as it developed from the medieval guilds to the modern theatre of Ayckbourn and Pinter, with a few mishaps and missed cues along the way. Michael Coveney - a former member of Ilford's Renegades - tells this tale with a charm and wit that will have you shouting out for an encore. This is the first account of its kind, packed with anecdote and previously unheard stories, and it shows how amateur theatre is more than a popular pastime: it has been endemic to the birth of the National Theatre, as well as a seedbed of talent and a fascinating barometer and product of the times in which we live.Some of the companies Coveney delves into - all taking centre stage in this entertaining and lively book - include the Questors and Tower Theatre in London; Birmingham's Crescent Theatre; The Little Theatre in Bolton, where Ian McKellen was a schoolboy participant; Lincolnshire's Broadbent Theatre, co-founded by Jim Broadbent's father and other conscientious objectors at the end of World War II; and Cornwall's stunning cliff-top Minack.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350128378
ISBN-10: 1350128376
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 20 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Includes descriptions of the involvement of major figures such as Derek Jacobi, Ian McKellen, Celia Imrie and Jude Law - all of whom have been involved in amateur theatre in various ways

Notă biografică

Michael Coveney was editor of Plays and Players and chief theatre critic, successively, on the Financial Times, the Observer, and the Daily Mail. His other books include a history of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre, and critical biographies of Mike Leigh, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ken Campbell and Maggie Smith.

Cuprins

Foreword by Kenneth BranaghPROLOGUECHAPTER ONE: The Agony and the Ecstasy CHAPTER TWO: Mysteries, Fireworks and StudentsCHAPTER THREE: Whatever Happened in Ilford?CHAPTER FOUR: Modern Stirrings in Newcastle, Norwich and Halifax CHAPTER FIVE: London Pride of the Questors and the TowerCHAPTER SIX: Three Non-Professionals in Profile: Robert Pennant Jones, Penny Tuerk and Michael GodleyCHAPTER SEVEN: All Aboard for the National TheatreCHAPTER EIGHT: Amdram at the Movies, in Novels - and Novel Hamlets CHAPTER NINE: The Magic of the Minack CHAPTER TEN: Off -Piste, and Unknown Territory in Lincolnshire, Bangor, Anglesey and DumfriesCHAPTER ELEVEN: Riding the Wave Towards a Brave New Dawn

Recenzii

A fascinating book on am-dram.
[Michael Coveney's] approach is serious and respectful. He has travelled to unearth histories of many of Britain's long-established amateur groups and venues . Coveney is not of the school that looks to am-dram for what he encapsulates as 'the hilarity of mishap' . Rather, he makes the case for its worthiness, the closeness of much of its work to that of at least the lower ranks of the professional, and its role as a seedbed of talent.
Michael Coveney's book not only charts the development of the amateur scene, (mainly in England), but also celebrates the joy of amateur theatre, warts and all . a lively celebration of a quite British phenomenon.
A wide-ranging, insightful and very funny book that charts our fascination with theatre.
Richly entertaining and informative ... What comes across vividly is that the amateur movement has made a huge contribution to the nation's story and even to the idea of a National Theatre.
An irresistible snoop into the world where so many of us were first tempted into the footlights. Michael Coveney is a trail-blazing theatrical critic; no one could tell this story better.
I particularly admire its readiness to face the patronage and belittlement of amdram and find compelling arguments to persuade sceptical readers to think again ... [it] is continuously well-researched and propelled by argument, but never preachy.
The book will also fill a vital gap in the theatrical bookshelves and relate the amateur movement to professional theatre and the wider society.
The subject is fascinating and under-investigated: to the best of my belief this is the first attempt to provide an account of it. Michael Coveney, one of our most widely experienced and highly respected theatre critics, is an ideal narrator.
Amateur theatre in his vision is the Brazilian forest of the stage, pumping out the oxygen we all feed off. It's historically informative, vividly personal, and - that rare thing - literally indispensable to an in-depth understanding of the place of theatre in the life of the nation. A genuinely important book, which also manages to be continuously entertaining.
A hysterical and warm-hearted celebration of British 'eccentricity and independence'.
Michael Coveney's book not only charts the development of the amateur scene ... but also celebrates the joy of amateur theatre, warts and all.
Compulsively readable and extremely funny.