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The English Shakespeare Company: The story of ‘The Wars of the Roses’ 1986-1989

List of illustrations Introduction Part One Setting Up (September 1985-September 1986)   Michael Pennington The Henrys (January-November 1986)   Michael Bogdanov The First Tour (November 1986-March 1987)   Michael Pennington The Old Vic and Toronto (April-July 1987)   Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington Part Two The Wars of the Roses (July-December 1987)   Michael Bogdanov The Second Tour (January-March 1988)   …

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Twelfth Night: A User’s Guide

Introduction English Stage Company, 1991 Part One Act One Act Two Entr’Acte Haiyuza Company, Tokyo, 1993 Part Two Act Three Act Four Act Five Conclusion Chicago Shakespeare Theater, 1995

Pinter in the Theatre

Foreword   Harold Pinter Introduction Pinter on Pinter Harry Thompson, New Theatre Magazine, 1961 Lawrence M. Bensky, The Paris Review, 1966 Miriam Gross, The Observer, 1980 Anna Ford, Omnibus/The Listener, 1988 Mireia Aragay and Ramon Simo, 1996 Voices from the Past Mick Goldstein’s letter to Michael Billington, 1984 Henry Woolf’s article in The Guardian, 2002 Actors …

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Other People’s Shoes

Prologue Why Do It? ‘One’s Real Life is the Life One Does Not Lead’ A Bit of My Own Story Changing the World Preparations and Rehearsals Early Days Joint Stock and the Workshop Rehearsal-Room Diplomacy Roots and Pathways Character and Context Horses for Courses The Physical Key The Psychological Key The Language Key The Personality …

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Prefaces to Shakespeare: Coriolanus

Introduction   Richard Eyre Introduction   Harley Granville Barker The Study and the Stage Shakespeare’s Stagecraft The Convention of Place The Speaking of the Verse The Boy-Actress The Soliloquy Costume The Integrity of the Text Coriolanus The Characters Caius Marcius Volumnia Aufidius Menenius The Tribunes The Actions of the Play The Volscians Volumnia and Virgilia The War …

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Kenneth Tynan: Theatre Writings

Preface   Matthew Tynan Foreword   Tom Stoppard Introduction 1945 The Skin of Our Teeth (Thornton Wilder, with Vivien Leigh) Oedipus Rex and The Critic (with Laurence Olivier) Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (with Ralph Richardson) 1946 King Lear (with Laurence Olivier) 1951 Profile of Vivien Leigh 1952 King Lear (with Donald Wolfit) The Wandering Jew (with …

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