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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Twenty-Six Years Of The Life Of An Actor And Manager: Interspersed With Sketches, Anecdotes, And Opinions Of The Professional Merits Of The Most Celeb

Twenty-Six Years Of The Life Of An Actor And Manager: Interspersed With Sketches, Anecdotes, And Opinions Of The Professional Merits Of The Most Celeb

Courtney Wemyss, Francis

Paperback

Entertainment & Performing ArtsTelevisionGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354504574
ISBN13: 9789354504570
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Step into the greenroom of Victorian London theatre, where reputations are made in a night and remembered for a century. Curtain up on the truth. In Volume I of Twenty-Six Years Of The Life Of An Actor And Manager, Francis Courtney Wemyss delivers a theatre memoir that reads like an actor autobiography classic: candid recollection, sharp judgement, and the lived texture of rehearsal rooms, touring routes, and packed houses. Interspersed with sketches and opinions, it becomes a stage anecdotes collection and a dramatic biography anthology, offering profiles of famous actors and actresses as they were seen by a working professional, not a distant critic. Wemyss writes from the hinge point of the nineteenth century stage, when theatrical taste, star power, and the business of playgoing were rapidly changing. Alongside the gossip and grit are theatrical management insights: how companies are run, how audiences are won, and what craft and discipline separate the merely popular from the truly great. For performing arts students, the book is an education in practice; for theatre history researchers, it is a first-hand witness to British theatre history and the culture of performance in its own voice. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike, and a standout among classic British stage memoirs. Casual readers will relish the rich backstage colour; classic-literature collectors will value its period voice and authority.

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