Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the Twentieth Century (INSCRIBED)

Eyre, Richard (INSCRIBED) and Wright, Nicholas (INSCRIBED)

ISBN 10: 0747547890 / ISBN 13: 9780747547891

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., London, 2000

About this Item

255 x 200mm. pp. 400. English text. Inscribed first hardback edition of 'Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the Twentieth Century'. Black and white illustrations. Bound in original black boards. Housed in black pictorial dust jacket. Boards and pages clean. Dust jacket shows a little light toning and bumping to edges. Binding strong. No underlining. Not price-clipped. Dust jacket protected with removable mylar cover. See images. 1.42kg. Extra postage overseas.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the Twentieth Century (INSCRIBED)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., London
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747547890
• ISBN 13: 9780747547891
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Hardback Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed By Authors
• Seller catalogs:
  • Plays and Theatre

About this title

Synopsis

In 1997, Richard Eyre was invited by the BBC to write and present a series of programmes about the history of British theatre in the 20th century. Eyre decided to write a book first and then base his TV series on it. This is that book. Together with Nicholas Wright, the two present what they describe as a "partial, personal and unscholarly view of the century's theatre", told from the point of view of two of theatre's most experienced practitioners. The book traces the way in which Shakespeare's plays have been used as nationalistic pageants, star vehicles and contemporary metaphors, mirroring changes in society over the century. Like the theatre itself, the book has been drawn from a variety of sources, themes, people and movements.

About the Author

Nicholas Wright was an associate director of the National Theatre from 1984-1998.