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BOOKS: Remarkable woman

... remarkable woman in her own right, the daughter of another remarkable woman, Edith Lanchester, pioneer of women's rights, early Socialist, who was taken to an asylum at the age of 22 by her own family because she was living in sin with a man she had no intention ...

Published: Thursday 15 March 1984
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 347 | Page: 26 | Tags: book review 

BOOK REVIEW: Michael Redgrave My Father

... love for his wife and family. He was also driven by his work, sometimes afflicted with financial problems and had strong socialist principles which he hand ed down to two of his children and at one time during the war caused him to be placed on the BBC's ...

Published: Thursday 13 July 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 31 | Tags: book review 

Tanztheater, by Bernd Kollinger (Henschelverlag, Berlin; 136 pp., 110 photos) Time was when the ballet was an ..

... the great masterpieces of classical ballet say, Giselle or Swan Lake and to imbue them with the true red blood of the socialist doctrines. In other words, he wants to transmogrify the gentle romanticism of those ballets into prop agandist^ shows and ...

Published: Thursday 24 May 1984
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 343 | Page: 24 | Tags: book review 

Books: Lasting influence

... was one of the most important and forward-looking men of the German theatre in the inter-war years. Like Brecht, he was a socialist, and his often startling stage innovations were therefore attacked violently by the mainly rightist German Piscator et ...

Published: Thursday 21 April 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 308 | Page: 28 | Tags: book review 

BOOK REVIEWS

... U.S.A are nothing like as full or as well annotated, especially, as one might expect from two East German books, on the socialist and the third world. A cer tain imbalance occurs, as in the Theatre Lexicon (which I can tho roughly recommend, if only because ...

Published: Thursday 11 January 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 534 | Page: 11 | Tags: book review 

BEHIND THE SCENES: BOOKS

... caricatures of the period and photographs There is also a good index It is good to see such unusual sides of the great socialist rebel as his family, home and leisure time This is recommended and enjoyable reading for those interested in 0 Casey s work ...

Published: Thursday 07 October 1976
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 576 | Page: 19 | Tags: book review 

BOOKS: Appetiser leaving desire for more

... almost a detective story, about the arts and politics in the Germany of the twenties and thirties, moving far and wide as the socialist emigres en deavoured to make their mark overseas after the Nazis came to power. Peter Hepplc The Good Value Guide 1984 (Barth ...

Published: Thursday 05 April 1984
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1083 | Page: 28 | Tags: book review 

BOOK REVIEWS

... with Mar xist politics and a belief that the theatre belonged to the people. In this he differed markedly from pre vailing Socialist theatre opinion in post-World War I Germany, which favoured agit-prop groups like Red Megaphone, themselves based on the ...

Published: Friday 29 December 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2158 | Page: 20 | Tags: book review