With its inspirational foreword, this book is a great reminder to parents that each child is very special, and that we have an obligation to cultivate the innate gifts of our children, instead of simply hoping the public school system will yield a desirable end-product in them.
In teaching one the art of singing, the constant emphasis on good breath, phrasing and enunciation, tone and poise, text and character becomes, although probably not intended, a rigid mental processing for both student and mentor.
Toronto Workshop Productions was Toronto's first 'alternative' theatre, and for thirty years, from 1959 until its closure in 1989, it introduced audiences to a radically new form of theatre.
Here is a book to hearten playgoers, stimulate young actors, lead theatrical executives to reconsider methods of management, and encourage benefactors to open their wallets.
A circus, a production of Shakespeare, an evening of song and ventriloquism, a performance by a 'learned pig' - all of these offered an evening's entertainment to the citizens of early nineteenth-century Upper Canada.
A circus, a production of Shakespeare, an evening of song and ventriloquism, a performance by a 'learned pig' - all of these offered an evening's entertainment to the citizens of early nineteenth-century Upper Canada.
Shakespeare's Hamlet, regarded by many as the world's most famous play by the world's most famous writer, is one of the most complex, demanding, discussed, and influential literary texts in English.
The purpose of this work is to establish the relationship between the Romantic drama in France of the period 1829-1843 (circa) and the melodrama or "e;popular tragedy"e; which flourished in the second-class theatres during the first three decades of the nineteenth century.
Un cataloqo de comedias, ordenado por titulo y por autor, se encuentra tambien en la Biblioteca de Autores Eaoeiioles, tanoa 47 y 49 (publicados por primera vez en 1858-59 y reimpresos varias veoes desde entonces), pero nunca se ha oorreqido y, aunque util, debe emplearse con cautela.
What the author chiefly aimed to do is to assess the main developments in the humanities in the Canadian universities since 194 7, to describe roughly where we stand now, and to suggest the nature of the problems facing us today and in the immediate future.
The romantic theatre, with all its imaginative vigour and eagerness for experimentation, appeals to those who like total theatre - unabashed, unashamedly spectacular, unforgettably pathetic.
