Author: RIX, BRIAN
Title: Tour de Farce - a Tale of Touring Theatres and Strolling Players (from Thespis to Branagh) in Five Acts (with a Curtain Raiser, Four Interludes and an After-Piece)
Description: London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340522658). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The actor author relates the history of the touring theatres and strolling players, recalling his own life spent in theatres, dirty dressing rooms and boarding houses. He revisits all the theatres he played on tour, plotting their triumphs and failures and, sadly, the tragic fate of many of our great thetre buildings. Full of humour, and illustrated with photograph and drawings, many never having been seen before, it is a memorable record of one of Britain's greatest traditions. C3B. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: British Theatres, Sir Henry Irving, Sir Donald Wolfit, Ellen Terry, Sybil Thorndike, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson 0340522658


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