Main entry:

Rowell, George.

Title & Author:

The Old Vic Theatre : a history / George Rowell.

Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Description:

xii, 207 pages, 30 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-193) and index.
1. The search -- 2. Seeking a public 1816-1834 -- 3. Seeking survival 1834-1880 -- 4. Seeking improvement 1880-1914 -- 5. Seeking Shakespeare 1914-1933 -- 6. Seeking the stars 1933-1940 -- 7. Seeking shelter 1940-1944 -- 8. Seeking supremacy 1944-1976 -- 9. Seeking an identity 1976-1983 -- 10. The search continues -- App. 1 Presidents and Chairmen of the Royal Victoria Hall Foundation -- App. 2 Plays presented by the Old Vic Company at the Old Vic Theatre 1914-1963 -- App. 3 Plays presented by the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic Theatre 1963-1976 -- App. 4 Plays presented at the Old Vic Theatre by other companies 1948-1975.

Summary:

This is the first book to chronicle fully the history of London's Old Vic Theatre. After Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, the Old Vic is London's oldest theatre, with a continuous history since 1818. Drawing on important archives both here (notably the Royal Victoria Hall's) and in the United States, George Rowell sheds new light on the management, audience, productions and players. In particular he offers fresh information on its early years.
When such famous figures as Edmund Kean and William Charles Macready appeared there, and Paganini gave his farewell concert. Over 175 years the Old Vic has served many purposes and many publics. It welcomed the young Princess Victoria on one of her first visits to the theatre. It has been the home of spectacle, 'blood-and-thunder' melodrama and Variety. Subsequently it was used as a temperance hall and housed a working-men's college. The Theatre was the first permanent.
Home of opera in English, as well as British ballet. Above all it was the birthplace of the world-famous Old Vic Company and saw the first appearances of Britain's National Theatre Company, directed by Laurence Olivier. Among the actors to perform at the Old Vic were John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Charles Laughton, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. The book contains numerous illustrations from the early years of the Theatre and of important productions. It includes a.
Chronology of plays produced at the Theatre by the Old Vic, National and other companies. It will be of interest to students and scholars of theatre and social history as well as to theatregoers.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0521346258 (paperback)
9780521346252 (paperback)

Subject:

Old Vic Theatre (London, England) History.
Old Vic (Theatre)
Old Vic Theatre (Londres, Angleterre) Histoire.
Old Vic Theatre (London, England)
Old Vic
London Old Vic.
Theater England London History 19th century.
Theater England London History 20th century.
Théâtre Angleterre Londres Histoire 19e siècle.
Théâtre Angleterre Londres Histoire 20e siècle.
Theater.
Geschichte
Old Vic (theater, Londen)
England London.
Theatre History
London (England)

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 126472
Call No.: ID PN2596.L7.O766; ID:97-B1084
Status: Available