Oscar Asche, Orientalism, and British Musical Comedy (Lives of the Theatre) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Oscar Asche, Orientalism, and British Musical Comedy (Lives of the Theatre) Book

Producer, actor, and author, Oscar Asche was one of the most commercially successful of the actor/managers in the first half of the twentieth century. Though virtually written out of theatre history because of his triumph on the popular stages of musical comedy, he is now remembered as having a successful career as an actor and producer of Shakespeare. He was an innovator in stage lighting and one of the first to use it as a language of the stage rather than as mere illumination. But, his greatest triumph of all was his ability to capture the public imagination during World War I and provide audiences with escapist musicals set in fictional orients.Read More

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  • 0275979296
  • 9780275979294
  • Brian Singleton
  • 30 July 2004
  • Praeger Publishers
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 240
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