The Adelphi Players: The Theatre of Persons

By Cecil Davies and Dr Cecil Davies

Book Overview

Cecil Davies' The Adelphi Players: The Theatre of Persons represents a uniquely interesting contribution to our understanding of touring British theatre in the mid-twentieth-century, post-war period. This book will interest everyone - whether student, academic or general reader - who wants to know more about issues concerning the recent history of British theatre. In their values and aims, the Adelphi Players pre-empted many of the post-war developments that we associate with the non-commercial, fringe and community theatre movement. In Richard Heron Ward founder of the Adelphi-Players, we encounter a dramatist, novelist, essayist and poet who has been unusually neglected in terms of our appreciation of the English literature of the broad left in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
The Adelphi Players has been edited by Peter Billingham, who has also provided an introduction placing Ward and the Adelphi players in the wider social, cultural and ideological context.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415866162
• ISBN13: 9780415866163
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"