Second Star to the Right: Peter Pan in the Popular Imagination

Over a century after its first level functionality, Peter Pan has turn into deeply embedded in Western pop culture, as an everlasting a part of formative years thoughts, in everything of renowned media, and in advertisement corporations. because 2003 the characters from this tale have had a hugely noticeable presence in approximately each style of pop culture: significant motion pictures, a literary sequel to the unique adventures, a image novel that includes a grown-up Wendy Darling, and an Argentinean novel a couple of kid's ebook author encouraged by means of J.

Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy

This selection of Alan Bennett's paintings comprises his first play and West finish hit, 40 Years On, in addition to Getting On, Habeus Corpus, and luxuriate in. 40 Years On'Alan Bennett's so much gloriously humorous play . .. an excellent, younger notion of a kingdom in decline, as visible throughout the eyes of a home-grown college play .

Sensory Experience and the Metropolis on the Jacobean Stage (1603–1625) (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama)

On the flip of the 17th century, Hristomir Stanev argues, rules in regards to the senses turned a part of a dramatic and literary culture in England, occupied with the effect of metropolitan tradition. Drawing upon an archive of early sleek dramatic and prose writings, and on fresh interdisciplinary reviews of sensory conception, Stanev right here investigates representations of the 5 senses in Jacobean performs in dating to metropolitan environments.

Locating the Audience: How People Found Value in National Theatre Wales

How do audiences adventure reside performances? what's received while a countrywide theatre is born? those questions and extra are the topic of Locating the Audience, the first in-depth research of ways humans shape relationships with a brand new theatre corporation. Investigating the inaugural season of nationwide Theatre Wales, Kirsty Sedgman explores how diversified humans felt concerning the approach their groups have been 'engaged' and their locations 'performed' by means of the theatre’s productions.