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Hb, by Sid Cofia (Efca Tree Books, £8.95) The trouble with EUa Fitzgerald is that her music speaks for her

... Hb, by Sid Cofia (Efca Tree Books, £8.95) The trouble with EUa Fitzgerald is that her music speaks for her mure eloquent ly than words can ever do. The most technically accomplished jaa jyr of our tune, and one whose records have frequently passed across ...

Published: Thursday 02 October 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 209 | Page: 8 | Tags: book review 

Caught In the Act, by Richard Todd (Hutchinson, £12.95); Permission to Speak, by Clive Dunn (Century, £10 95^ ..

... Caught In the Act, by Richard Todd (Hutchinson, £12.95); Permission to Speak, by Clive Dunn (Century, £10 95^ It might be thought strange that these two books of autobiography have been coupled together. Both these actors, however widely differing in ...

Published: Thursday 02 April 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 298 | Page: 10 | Tags: book review 

Star Speak: Hollywood on Every thing, by Doug McClelland (Faber and Faber, £9.95) You won't learn a great deal ..

... Star Speak: Hollywood on Every thing, by Doug McClelland (Faber and Faber, £9.95) You won't learn a great deal about Hollywood or its stars from these hundreds of anecdotes and one-liners spoken during the past 60 years by actors and directors. Some of ...

Published: Thursday 14 April 1988
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 110 | Page: 8 | Tags: book review 

Action Is Eloquence: Shakespeare's Langue of Gesture, by David Be ving- ton, Harvard University Press £13.20 ..

... Shakespeare's plays away from their i speaking in order to find special, and also simple, eloquence in other aspects. Movement, personal props, cos tumes and actual stage areas of all sizes are shown as speaking their own lan guage, importantly and.richly ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1985
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 219 | Page: 24 | Tags: book review 

Zodiac and Other Aventures in Platform Drama, by Bryan Stocks (£2.50 from the author at 11 Halstead Drive, ..

... Drive, Menston, Ilklcy, West Yorks LS29 6NT) Examples of work specially written to provide students with experience of choral speaking. The term platform drama is used because these short pieces can be staged for special occa sions, though they are essentially ...

Published: Thursday 27 October 1988
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 61 | Page: 8 | Tags: book review 

Laughter From The Dark by Michael Parnell (John Murray, £15.95) This well-written biography of the Welsh ..

... dandled on the knee by a father whose selfishness and extravagance repelled all his children. It was the American-born, Welsh speak ing Walter's wit and yarn-spinning that one supposes influenced his son's immense articulateness in person and on the page ...

Published: Thursday 20 October 1988
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 306 | Page: 8 | Tags: book review 

Books: Reaching beyond theatre

... Kumiega, who has a Polish father, speaks the language and has both worked and studied with Grotows ki, delves deeply into her subject, excites our interest in this mysterious man but fails to convince us that his work speaks to anyone who is not prepared ...

Published: Thursday 24 July 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 341 | Page: 27 | Tags: book review 

BOOKS

... of the result. Directors' Theatre is notable not only for the range of directors included but because Miss Cook lets them speak for them. selves; she does not intrude need lessly with her own views, though at times she makes apt comment and provides useful ...

Published: Thursday 23 January 1975
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 409 | Page: 12 | Tags: book review 

BOOKS

... BOOKS SPEAKING up for Chekhoy, as he terms it, is Harvey Pitcher, in The Chekhoy Play -- a New Interpretation (Chatto and Windus £3). And speak up he does, eloquently and Informatively. A lecturer in Russian at the University of St. Andrews. Harvey ...

Published: Thursday 12 July 1973
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 418 | Page: 18 | Tags: book review 

New German Dramatists, by Denis Calandra (Macmillan, £12 hardback, £4.95 paperback) The Macmillan Modern ..

... £4.95 paperback) The Macmillan Modern Dramatists series resumes with an examination of the German (more strictly, German- speaking) playwrights who rose to prominence in the seventies. Unfortunately, of the seven discussed by Professor Calandra, three ...

Published: Thursday 04 August 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 25 | Tags: book review 

Books

... affected his music, but not his out put. which was that of a born com poser. willing to work over the wid est field. Public Speaking, by Dennis Castle and John Wade (Hodder and Stoughton, paperback, £1.25) Two very well-known members of the entertainment ...

Published: Thursday 27 March 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 28 | Tags: book review