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| Books LLC : Fringe Theatre: Donovan King, Tricycle Theatre, Plague Over England, Shockheaded Peter, Tj Dawe, Jim Maccool, Theatre Delicatessen | |
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Fringe Theatre: Donovan King, Tricycle Theatre, Plague Over England, Shockheaded Peter, Tj Dawe, Jim Maccool, Theatre Delicatessen |
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English |
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Paperback |
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42 |
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2010-05-29 |
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1157354289 |
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Books LLC |
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0.16 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.08 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Donovan King, Tricycle Theatre, Plague Over England, Shockheaded Peter, Tj Dawe, Jim Maccool, Theatre Delicatessen, Travels With My Aunt, Do You Come Here Often?, Alternative Theatre. Excerpt: Fringe theatre is a term used to describe alternative theatre, or entertainment not of the mainstream. The term comes from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which name comes from Robert Kemp, who described the unofficial companies performing at the same time as the second Edinburgh International Festival (1948) as a fringe, writing: Round the fringe of official Festival drama, there seems to be more private enterprise than before. The term has since been adopted by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and thence by alternative theatres and alternative theatre festivals. In London, the Fringe is the term given to small scale theatres, many of them located above pubs, and the equivalent to New York's off-Broadway or Off-Off-Broadway theatres. There are also many unjuried theatre festivals which are often called fringe festivals. These festivals, such as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Adelaide Fringe Festival, permit artists to produce a wide variety of interesting works. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (founded 1947) is the largest arts festival in the world. Though many shows at the Edinburgh Fringe could be considered fringe theatre, its remit also covers mainstream theatre, comedy, music and many other genres. The second-largest fringe festival in the world is the Adelaide Fringe Festival. The Adelaide Fringe evolved in the early 1970s as a reaction against the establishment and the then 'mainstream' Adelaide Festival of Arts. Today, although two events are now inextricably linked, the Fringe Festival has overtaken the main Festival of Arts in terms of attenda... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=619315
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