Tour De Farce

Rix, Brian

ISBN 10: 0340522658 / ISBN 13: 9780340522653

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1992

About this Item

A hardback book with both book and jacket in fine condition, dated 1992, First Edition. A Tale of Touring Theatres and Strolling Players.

Seller Inventory # 046015

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tour De Farce
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340522658
• ISBN 13: 9780340522653
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Drama, Theatre
  • Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

This volume tells the story of touring theatre and strolling players from Thespis to Branaugh and recalls the author's own life spent in the theatres, dirty dressing rooms and boarding houses of many provincial towns. In the 1920s there were nearly 250 touring companies constantly weaving their way across Britain, giving their all in such diverse venues as the Alexandra, Widnes and the Alexandra, Birmingham. This frenzy lessened with the onset of cinema and telelvision, but for some thespians life carried on as it had for centuries. Brian Rix has spent eight years of his life on tour or in repertory. From the 1950s to the mid-1970s he only had to appear in touring theatre with one of the Whitehall or Garrick farces for house records to reach new heights. Brian Rix has written two volumes of autobiography, "My Farce From My Elbow" and "Farce About Face".