RESEARCH IN THEATRE HISTORY & ARCHIVE
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In these pages are examples of some Laughing Audience ephemera and a summary of two studies in the history of Scottish theatrical management: Howard and Wyndham Limited and the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, Edinburgh.
Paul Iles knows how you can gain a fascinating glimpse into people’s lives through the entertainments of the past: during his time at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre he charmed together a wonderful collection of handbills, programmes and photographs from the theatre’s heyday as the Empire. Browse the walls and you can trace some of the venue’s history, as well as discovering who, and what, brought yesterday’s theatregoers to the box office. Mary Brennan, The Herald, Glasgow, 17 February 2006.
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OLD AND NEW
The two great divisions of time, Past and Future, should appeal to us as being each dependent on each other in all work of the Theatre. We want to be Futurists… alas, that is beyond us until we are the other blessed thing… Archivists. Edward Gordon Craig, ‘Old and New’, The Mask, A Quarterly Journal of the Art of the Theatre, Florence, Arena Goldoni, May 1915, Vol.7. No.2, p.93. THE KIND OF THEATRE YOU SHOULD BUILD IF YOU WANT THE PEOPLE TO BE UNABLE TO KEEP AWAY FROM IT. TAKE GRANDEUR AS YOUR MEASURE. Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966), 1915.
TIME rushes o’er us; thick as evening clouds, Ages roll back: what calls them from their shrouds? What in full vision brings their good and great, The men whose virtues make the nation's fate, The far, forgotten stars of humankind? The STAGE - the MIGHTY TELESCOPE of mankind.
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.
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