Title & Author:

Curtains!!!, or, A new life for old theatres / edited by Iain Mackintosh and Michael Sell ; photographic editor, Victor Glasstone.

Publication:

[Eastbourne, East Sussex] : John Offord in association with the Curtains!!! Committee, [1982]

Description:

248 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 235).
Foreword / Ken Dodd -- Introduction / Iain Mackintosh -- Sleeping beauties / Christopher Brereto -- Dressing the house / Nicholas Thompson and Clare Ferraby -- The preservation game / John Earl -- The need to know / Michael Sell -- Restoring the gaiety / victor Glasstone -- Mechanical archaeology in the theatre / david Wilmore -- Engineering the restoration / Derek Sugden -- Restored theatres can be viable / Francis Reid -- The gazetteer -- Acknowlegements -- Biographical notes on contributors -- Bibliography.

Summary:

Complete gazetteer of all the surviving pre-1914 theatres, music halls of Great Britain, whether in theatrical use or not.

ISBN:

0903931427 (pbk.)
9780903931427 (pbk.)

Subject:

Theaters Conservation and restoration Great Britain.
Theaters Great Britain Guidebooks.
Théâtres Conservation et restauration Grande-Bretagne.
Théâtres Grande-Bretagne Guides.
Theaters
Theaters Conservation and restoration
Great Britain

Form/genre:

Guidebooks

Added entries:

Mackintosh, Iain, editor.
Sell, Michael, editor.
Glasstone, Victor, editor.

New life for old theatres

Holdings:

Location: Library main 88254
Call No.: ID:85-B12638
Status: Available