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Synopsis
A nostalgic and humorous evocation of the days of local rep through the memories of those who worked in it. Many of today's best known actors pay tribute to rep as the place where they learned their craft. Dunn draws on theatre people's experiences to trace the rise and fall of the institution of British rep.
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Review
Ways of life disappear when no-one is looking. For generations of provincial theatre- goers, trips to London or Stratford were less important than going to the local repertory theatre. For generations of actors, playing whatever parts they let you in a small company and prompting and dogsbodying was the way you learned your craft.
Kate Dunn's study, based heavily on interviews with actors who went through that particular school of hard knocks, is particularly good on the way things worked--she spends a lot of time on the economics of management, the cheap costumes and the tiny salaries. Directors were often incompetent, pretentious, or drunk, or simply copying all the moves from French's Acting Editions of scripts; and yet good nights at the theatre often emerged anyway, and this is where many good directors learned their skills. Dunn is equally good at humanising the clichés--she has a particularly good, if perhaps rose-tinted, chapter on theatrical landladies, and their cooking. There are perhaps a few too many funny stories about costumes that fell apart, makeup that fell off, inaudible prompters and universal attacks of the giggles--faced with a wealth of good material, Dunn saw no reason to waste any of it. --Roz Kaveney
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Local rep has been the training ground for many of the best-known actors and directors, and in this book Kate Dunn draws on theatre people's first-hand experiences to trace the rise and fall of this great British institution.
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- PublisherJohn Murray
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0719554810
- ISBN 13 9780719554810
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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