... misery, offset this. One hour in power and command at Drury Lane, the next he would be sodden with drink, a fool lost in tavern debauchery. There is a mass of complicated material concerning Drury Lane itself, as well as Kean's work there, and this Mr F ...

... Roberts, which Logan co-authored, his direction of the marvellous South Pacific and his considerable part in a lesser Drury Lane success, Fanny. Nor should his work in films of the fifties be forgotten, box office blockbusters like Picnic, Bus ...

... superb sense of the theatrical. The book is also good in its descrip tion of the staging, mechanics and economics of the Drury Lane pan tomimes, in which even star performers, such as Dan Leno, sometimes played se cond fiddle to the effects. But what comes ...

... business man, he isn't. He was ousted from the Traverse, walked away from the Jeannetta Cochrane, lost the Arts Laboratory in Drury Lane, got tired of IT, sailed too close to the wind with Suck. But many people in London Haynes now lives in Paris remember him ...

... Sensational stuff On the mightiest of all theatre stages Sensation Smith of Drury Lane (by Dennis Castle. Publ. by Charles Skilton Ltd £14.95) EARTHQUAKES, horse races, tornadoes, shipwrecks, battles on land and sea, marching warriors, striking miners ...

... situations, and each year at Drury Lane, for instance, there was a new story, and a vast array of special effects to support it, in their way more spectacular than anything we see today. Take the 1899 pantomime at Drury Lane, for example, when the Giant's ...

... of trying to translate the contem porary praise and opinion into modern terms. In 1895 Terry was at the Lyceum, Duse at Drury Lane, and Bernhardt at Daly's. Clearly all three appealed to a visual code. All three used the same floating lines of dress, ...

... Theatre, Somerset House (1623). Orrell's thesis is that both the indoor playhouses such as the Blackfriars and the Cockpit Drury Lane, and the first public open- air theatres such as the Globe on the Bankside, were completely realised architectural ideas ...

... though it effectively juxtaposes the viewpoints of two women from two very different historical periods. Charke played at Drury Lane and at the Hay market, in a bewildering variety of roles, and in 1735 first played the role of Lord Foppington a role which ...

... brilliance as a pan tomime performer, an aspect of her art which is often overlooked, though she contributed greatly to the huge Drury Lane pantomimes in partnership with Dan Lcno and Herbert Campbell. Unavoidably, there is a lot of the catalogue about the book ...

... at the turn of the century. He was an expert on stage machinery, having been responsi ble for construction of it at both Drury Lane and Covent Garden. To teach himself about the the atre, he had worked as a stage hand, and in pursuit of his other great ...

... appren ticeship in the smaller venues before making the big time, which included the star-studded and highly spectacular Drury Lane pantomimes. Role models Of the four actors covered in Robert Simonson's book Role of a lifetime (Backstage Books, £12.95 ...