Great Britain - Theater - History & Criticism, Individual Theaters and Companies - History & Criticism
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Overview
Tiny performance spaces above pubs and extravagant Edwardian auditoria shoe-horned into West End sites; the innovatory and the historicist; the little-known and the internationally famous: this book describes and illustrates the architecture of some 70 London theatres.An introduction charts the history of the genre, from the purpose-built theatres of the Elizabethan period -- the city's first dramatic boom, now revisited at 'Shakespeare's Globe' -- through the great age of Edwardian opulence, to the products of the current Lottery-fuelled activity. The work of major theatre architects such as Frank Matcham, C J Phipps, Walter Emden and Bertie Crewe is well represented and the book also includes biographies of the specialist designers and a section detailing ex-theatres currently masquerading as cinemas, strip clubs, bingo halls and TV studios.
Book Details
Published
April 5, 2002
Publisher
Batsford Ltd
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781841660479