Nights That Shook the Stage

Download or read book Nights That Shook the Stage written by Dwayne Brenna and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most raucous evenings in the history of theater are chronicled in this lively discussion of occasions when theater-makers changed the course of theatrical, and sometimes world, history. Covering a wide range of events from the inauspicious opening of Oedipus Rexin Athens, to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., to the violence-riddled performance of Halla Bol in New Delhi, this book offers detailed and studied observations of specific minutes, hours, and days on the stage. For each staging covered, the author examines the reactions of critics and the public and tells the inside story, identifies the key players, and examines why these events still resound today.