Prelude Monumental Mockery A Rash Young Gentleman The New Chairman The First Director After the Fire Openings Veering to Charybdis Decay and Change The Triumvirate The Peter Hall Years: I The Peter Hall Years: II A Clean Sheet Towards a New Theatre Postscript
Introductory Essay Simon Trussler Preface The Plot of the Play The Cast for Brook’s Production First Week’s Rehearsals Second Week’s Rehearsals Third Week’s Rehearsals Fourth Week’s Rehearsals Fifth Week’s Rehearsals Sixth Week’s Rehearsals Seventh Week’s Rehearsals Eighth Week’s Rehearsals
00:00:00 Introduction Douglas Fairbanks Jr 00:52:20 Interval thoughts: Pinafore in USA Douglas Fairbanks Jr 00:53:05 Picture of Captain Corcoran from behind the proscenium in US production, with awful caricature of African-American stagehand holding spotlight Frankie Howerd’s performance as Sir Joseph Porter notable for being almost entirely spoken (with broadly ‘correct’ rhythms).
Introduction Cast of Characters The Play Some Suggestions for Staging Easy-to-Make Costumes and Scenery Lighting Procedures
[Safety] The beginning of chemistry Chemists today Equipment for your chemistry laboratory Testing things The moving moth balls experiment What is carbon dioxide? Hard water Dissolving Evaporation Solutions Mixtures Unsaturated, saturated and supersaturated solutions Desert chemistry Crystals in nature Growing crystals A crystal garden Acids and alkalis Dyes Mordants Dyes and dyeing Paper and paint …
[Population and progress] The first machines The lever The shadoof The balance Making a see-saw balance Making a sensitive balance Making a straw balance Finding the balancing point What is gravity? Finding the centre of gravity of awkward shapes Tricks with gravity More about levers The inclined plane The wedge The pulley Cranes Lifts The …