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The Old Vic - The Story of a Great Theatre from Kean to Olivier to Spacey (Hardcover, Main)
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The Old Vic - The Story of a Great Theatre from Kean to Olivier to Spacey (Hardcover, Main)
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The Old Vic, one of the world's great theatres, opened in 1818 with
rowdy melodrama and continued with Edmund Kean in Richard III
howled down by the audience. One impresario, among the first of
thirteen to go bankrupt there, fled to Milan and ran La Scala. In
1848 a chorus girl tried to murder the leading lady. In 1870 the
Vic became a music hall, then a temperance tavern and, from 1912,
under Lilian Baylis, both an opera house and the home of
Shakespeare. By the 1930s great actors were happy to go there for a
pittance - John Gielgud, Charles Laughton, Peggy Ashcroft, and
Laurence Olivier. The Vic considered itself a national theatre in
all but name. After the second world war the Royal Ballet and the
English National Opera both sprang from the Vic, and the National
Theatre, at last established in 1963 under Olivier, made its first
home there. In 1980 the Vic was saved from becoming a bingo hall by
a generous Toronto businessman. Since 2004 Kevin Spacey, Hollywood
actor and the winner of two Oscars, has led a new company there,
and toured the world.
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