I had been hooked on Panto design ever since I appeared in “Mother Goose” at The Haymarket Leicester and Belgrade Coventry. It was my first experience of Terry Parsons and the budget that seemed to have no end! Carole Cleveland in Turquoise Ostrich trim , Reg Dixon in a never ending col...
Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER CHAPTER I--HIS GENERAL LINE OF BUSINESS Allow me to introduce myself--first negatively. No landlord is my friend and brother, no chambermaid loves me, no waiter worships m
The 16thcentury was an exciting time of change for actors – then called players – and playwrights. The tradition that touring acting companies performed in inns was first challenged in 1567 with the purpose-built Red Lion playhouse in Whitechapel, a multi-sided single gallery theatre with a fi...