What Garrick Gaieties? A Note On Reference And Source Material
1965; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 8; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3138/md.8.2.198
ISSN1712-5286
Autores Tópico(s)Theatre and Performance Studies
ResumoALL OF US WHO TEACH DRAMA have a tendency to invoke the splendor of particular productions, even those we have never seen; a mythical aura hangs over, say, Ethel Barrymore in Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines or Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie. I have heard myself say, "Now, if you had seen A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway ... ," forgetting for the moment that I had not only seen Jessica Tandy and Marlon Brando as Blanche and Stan, but Uta Hagen and Anthony Quinn in the same roles, and that they were two different plays. What with cast changes,• script changes, theater changes, and the varying quality of performances from night to night, the historical re-creation of any production is almost impossible. The best that we can hope for, I suppose, is a little fact and a lot of fancy.
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