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The Liverpool Playhouse
Ros Merkin
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Description for The Liverpool Playhouse
Hardcover. From its outset, the Liverpool Playhouse has been inextricably linked to the history of the city in which it was built. Home over the years to many well known actors, the Playhouse remains one of the most vibrant British theatres. This title deals with the theatre and its city. Num Pages: 250 pages, 100 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJ; AN; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 191 x 21. Weight in Grams: 910.
From its outset, the Liverpool Playhouse has been inextricably linked to the history of the city in which it was built. The impetus to create it came from the burgeoning civic pride engendered by the city’s growing wealth and its status as ‘second city of empire’; but its opening in 1911 was delayed by the transport strikes which hit the city. Over the following century, the history of the theatre, with all its ups and its downs, has reflected the history of Liverpool – and at times the city itself has appeared on stage as a key character. While ... Read more
From its outset, the Liverpool Playhouse has been inextricably linked to the history of the city in which it was built. The impetus to create it came from the burgeoning civic pride engendered by the city’s growing wealth and its status as ‘second city of empire’; but its opening in 1911 was delayed by the transport strikes which hit the city. Over the following century, the history of the theatre, with all its ups and its downs, has reflected the history of Liverpool – and at times the city itself has appeared on stage as a key character. While ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846317477
SKU
V9781846317477
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Ros Merkin
Ros Merkin is a Reader in Drama at Liverpool John Moores University. She compiled and edited Liverpool’s Third Cathedral: The Liverpool Everyman Theatre for the theatre’s 40th birthday in 2004. Her research mainly focuses on regional theatre and includes The Glory of the Garden: English Regional Theatre and the Arts Council 1984–2009, which she edited with Kate Dorney, and a ... Read more
Reviews for The Liverpool Playhouse
So this is both a book that can be dipped into for interesting quotations and anecdotes and to look at photos of actors when they were much younger and a story that can be read through, but it can also be valuable as a resource for more serious students of regional theatre, showing how it has responded to a changing ... Read more