AT THE THEATRE
LOOKING AT A PLAY. By W. BridgesAdams. Phoenix House, London. ‘THIS is an interesting little book in which, in the short space of 48 pagés, Mr. Bridges-Adams gives us much factual information about plays, acting, playhouses, and drama generally. It is not a history of the play and it is not intended to be such, but rather the filling in of the background of the world of the theatre. Mr. Bridges-Adams shows how the theatre has reflected the taste of the people through the ages. He tells of famous actors and famous moments in acting, as when Betterton, as Hamlet, turned white when he saw the ghost (continued on next page)
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(continued from previous page) and made those who were watching him turn white also. There is a chapter on propaganda and the theatre, and another on snobbery in the theatre. Ibsen, for example, is presented as one dramatist who could not reach the people in England because his followers and would-be interpreters stood too firmly between him and the public.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 434, 17 October 1947, Page 15
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176AT THE THEATRE New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 434, 17 October 1947, Page 15
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