{"product_id":"9781760418304-theatricals","title":"Theatricals","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe idea of retelling theatre stories began with a second-hand copy of Donald Sinden's Theatrical Anecdotes. Other anthologies, biographies and histories followed. Widening circles of biblio-graphies soon spread out into earlier anthologies and accounts, from practitioners within the theatre - Oxberry, Bunn, Wilkinson, Macready - as well as from the memoirs of ardent theatregoers - Pepys, Hunt, Moore, Haydon... But the remarkable degree to which certain stories are repeated again and again makes specific acknowledgment of sources impossible. For example, Macklin's final octogenarian appearance as Shylock, Barrymore's hurling of a fish from the stage, Charles Kemble's treatment of a crying child in the audience, Garrick's parsimony, Ralph Richardson's parrot, Barry's and Garrick's competing Romeos - these are typical of hundreds of set pieces which recur almost obsessively. And the same blunder or witticism may well be attributed to a surprisingly large cast.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ginninderra Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45822358093960,"sku":"9781760418304","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0371\/3443\/4440\/files\/9781760418304.jpg?v=1778727227","url":"https:\/\/littlelostbookshop.com.au\/products\/9781760418304-theatricals","provider":"The Little Lost Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}