Margaret Webster: A Life in the TheaterUniversity of Michigan Press, 24.02.2010 - 400 Seiten "In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it." -Marian Seldes "Margaret Webster is a highly welcome addition to our knowledge of the first important female director in American theater. Remembered now especially for her staging of Othello with Paul Robeson, Uta Hagen, and Jose Ferrer, Margaret Webster was probably the best-known, in-demand, and admired director of Shakespeare in America in the 1940s and 1950s. Fascinating throughout, the book's discussions of working with Robeson, and of HUAC, which targeted her just as her career was reaching a peak, make for especially engrossing reading." -Oscar Brockett Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater is an engrossing backstage account of the life of pioneering director Margaret Webster (1905-72). This is the first book-length biography of Webster, a groundbreaking stage and opera director whose career challenged not only stage tradition but also mainstream attitudes toward professional women. Often credited with first having brought Shakespeare to Broadway, and renowned for her bold casting of an African American (Paul Robeson) in the role of Othello, Webster was a creative force in modern American and British theater. Her story reveals the independent-minded artist undeterred by stage tradition and unmindful of rules about a woman's place in the professional theater. In addition to providing fascinating glimpses into Webster's personal and family life, Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater also offers a who's-who list of the biggest names in New York and London theater of the time, as well as Hollywood: John Gielgud, Noël Coward, George Bernard Shaw, Uta Hagen, Sybil Thorndike, Eva LeGallienne, and John Barrymore, among others, all of whom crossed paths with Webster. Capping Webster's amazing story is her investigation by Senator Joseph McCarthy and HUAC, which left her unable to work for a year, and from which she never fully recovered. |
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... Paul Robeson in the leading role. The creative force behind this historic event in American stage history was the thirty-eight-year-old director known to all as “Peggy.” Webster has been called the greatest woman pioneer working in the ...
... Paul Robeson in the leading role. The creative force behind this historic event in American stage history was the thirty-eight-year-old director known to all as “Peggy.” Webster has been called the greatest woman pioneer working in the ...
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... Paul Robeson and Coral Brown in Peter Garland's Basalik, Arts Theatre; plays Abigail Hill in Norman Ginsbury's Viceroy Sarah, Phoenix Theatre, and tours in Viceroy Sarah; appointed actor-delegate to the London Theatre Council; attends ...
... Paul Robeson and Coral Brown in Peter Garland's Basalik, Arts Theatre; plays Abigail Hill in Norman Ginsbury's Viceroy Sarah, Phoenix Theatre, and tours in Viceroy Sarah; appointed actor-delegate to the London Theatre Council; attends ...
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... Paul Robeson, Uta Hagen, and José Ferrer, Brattle Theatre and McCarter Theatre; directs Terence Rattigan's Flare Path with Alec Guinness and Nancy Kelly, Henry Miller's Theatre. 1943: Directs Janet and Philip Stevenson's Counterattack ...
... Paul Robeson, Uta Hagen, and José Ferrer, Brattle Theatre and McCarter Theatre; directs Terence Rattigan's Flare Path with Alec Guinness and Nancy Kelly, Henry Miller's Theatre. 1943: Directs Janet and Philip Stevenson's Counterattack ...
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... Paul Robeson was a theatrical and political milestone; and her stagings of Verdi's operas at New York City's Metropolitan Opera were the first by a woman director. In addition, her dedication to noncommercial theater in the form of the ...
... Paul Robeson was a theatrical and political milestone; and her stagings of Verdi's operas at New York City's Metropolitan Opera were the first by a woman director. In addition, her dedication to noncommercial theater in the form of the ...
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... Paul Robeson. In Venice among the glamorous people, Webster practiced her Italian and suffered severe anxieties over her unstylish appearance and lack of social skills. She felt childish, ignorant, and overweight. Nonetheless, the ...
... Paul Robeson. In Venice among the glamorous people, Webster practiced her Italian and suffered severe anxieties over her unstylish appearance and lack of social skills. She felt childish, ignorant, and overweight. Nonetheless, the ...
Inhalt
The Old Vic and the West | |
Broadway Nights | |
Giants and Pygmies | |
Battle of Angels | |
The Making of Othello | |
Life at the Opera | |
McCarthy | |
Unfinished Business | |
Losing Battles | |
Epilogue | |
Notes | |
Selected Bibliography | |
The American Repertory Theatre | |
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