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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... called the greatest woman pioneer working in the American theater at midcentury. I became interested in her story while preparing a reference work, Margaret Webster: A BioBibliography for publication in the early 90s. Although Webster ...
... called the greatest woman pioneer working in the American theater at midcentury. I became interested in her story while preparing a reference work, Margaret Webster: A BioBibliography for publication in the early 90s. Although Webster ...
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... called The Women's Tribute. A company of “star” actresses was rehearsing the benefit performance, written for the occasion by Louis N. Parker, when the “Youth” in the allegory took sick. May Whitty knocked on her daughter's bedroom door ...
... called The Women's Tribute. A company of “star” actresses was rehearsing the benefit performance, written for the occasion by Louis N. Parker, when the “Youth” in the allegory took sick. May Whitty knocked on her daughter's bedroom door ...
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... called The Mountain Sylph. Her stage career was effectively launched on London's West End, and she soon progressed to the prestigious St. James's Theatre, where she was understudy to an ingenue whose family name was Webster. Unlike the ...
... called The Mountain Sylph. Her stage career was effectively launched on London's West End, and she soon progressed to the prestigious St. James's Theatre, where she was understudy to an ingenue whose family name was Webster. Unlike the ...
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... her right eye. She called it her “crooked eye.” She appeared in early family photographs as a smallish child with blond curls and large eyeglasses, staring myopically into the camera with the right eye turned slightly.
... her right eye. She called it her “crooked eye.” She appeared in early family photographs as a smallish child with blond curls and large eyeglasses, staring myopically into the camera with the right eye turned slightly.
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... called it “trilling and wonderful.”7 At eight, Peggy sat in the presence of Barker's newest production at the St. James's Theatre, the premiere of Shaw's Androcles and the Lion, with her father as the “handsome Captain.” From the start ...
... called it “trilling and wonderful.”7 At eight, Peggy sat in the presence of Barker's newest production at the St. James's Theatre, the premiere of Shaw's Androcles and the Lion, with her father as the “handsome Captain.” From the start ...
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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Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater Milly S. Barranger,Margaret Webster Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2004 |
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