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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 828

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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 902

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Author: Stanley Weintraub
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Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: Bill Naughton
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435233044
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. In this play, the whole Crompton family becomes entangled in a row in which a good many uncomfortable truths are told.

Author: Bill Naughton
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Bill Naughton was best-known for his novel Alfie, which became a classic film of the 60s starring Michael Caine, and for plays such as Spring and Port Wine. His short stories and children's books are also modern classics, and include A Goalkeeper's Revenge and A Dog Called Nelson.Born in Ireland, in Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo in 1910, his family moved to Lancashire when he was four. In On the Pig's Back (1987), the first book in his autobiographical trilogy, he described his childhood in Bolton during the Great War, and his attempts at writing when he worked as a lorry-driver. After years of struggle, he had by 1945 published a number of stories, many of them in the wartime Lilliput magazine, and his first book, A Roof Over Your Head, was hailed by John Betjeman as 'a work of genius'. In Saintly Billy (1988) he went back to chart his Catholic upbringing in an immigrant Irish family in a close-knit Lancashire mining community during the 1920s. Neither Use Nor Ornament is the third part of his autobiography. It opens as he's just turned fourteen, and has his first taste of the world of work when the milkman sacks him as his helper for spilling too much milk from the pail - and being 'neither use nor ornament'. Those harsh words pursue him when he leaves school to work in the alien world of the weaving sheds. But young Billy is destined to become a writer remarkable for his insights into human behaviour, and for his sharp recall of that other world of childhood.Lilliput editor Dennis Ritts called Bill Naughton 'the finest short story writer that this country has ever known'. Welcoming his autobiography in the Sunday Mirror, he praised Naughton's rare ability to 'get the feel of warmth and childhood innocence' into his writing. 'It is a moving book by a singular individualist who had to struggle hard to make himself known.'Bill Naughton died in 1992 after completing this last part of his autobiography. The first two volumes were published by Oxford University Press. Alfie was reissued in 1993 in Allison & Busby's Twentieth Century Classics series.

Author: Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786453095
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 645

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New York City's Broadway district is by far the most prestigious and lucrative venue for American performers, playwrights, entertainers and technicians. While there are many reference works and critical studies of selected Broadway plays or musicals and even more works about the highlights of the American theater, this is the first single-volume book to cover all of the activities on Broadway between 1919 and 2007. More than 14,000 productions are briefly described, including hundreds of plays, musicals, revivals, and specialty programs. Entries include famous and forgotten works, designed to give a complete picture of Broadway's history and development, its evolution since the early twentieth century, and its rise to unparalleled prominence in the world of American theater. The productions are identified in terms of plot, cast, personnel, critical reaction, and significance in the history of New York theater and culture. In addition to a chronological list of all Broadway productions between 1919 and 2007, the book also includes approximately 600 important productions performed on Broadway before 1919.

Author: Alexander Hopkins McDannald
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 810

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An encyclopedia of current events.

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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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