Two of the Mighty Dead have been brought back to life in exemplary fashion: Shakespeare in Lois Potter's The Life of William Shakespeare: A Critical Biography (John Wiley), which very cleverly uses expert theatre-knowledge as a way of making her enigmatic subject seem plausibly substantial; and Keats in Nicholas Roe's John Keats: A New Life (Yale), which puts the poet properly in his place.
Where dramatists today often start writing straight from college, Wesker – like his contemporaries Harold Pinter and John Osborne – brought to theatre a wide knowledge of life.
The innovative approach of using theatre to increase knowledge and attitudes about breast cancer screening was assessed through a pre-, post-test onsurveyurvey of the immigrant, Chinese, women-only audience.
My knowledge of theatre now includes Turkish absurdist drama, thanks to Theatre Hayal Perdesi's perky surtitled production of The Empire Builders, a 1959 political farce in which a family keeps being moved upstairs into smaller premises.
He possessed an extraordinary knowledge of theatre and its inner workings.
Of course, this raises a perennial question: must theatre critics have firsthand knowledge of the craft?
She was nearly twenty years older than Eastman and had a knowledge of theatre and of Williams.
Fortunately, I do not have enough respect for his knowledge of theatre for his review to upset me".
Feijóo's monumental Theatro crítico universal (1726 39; "Universal Critical Theatre"), a compendium of knowledge, exemplifies the interests and achievements of the encyclopaedists.
His knowledge of theatre folk and lore was legendary and is preserved in two wonderful collections of theatrical anecdotes, as well as in a 1996 novel, Scratch an Actor.
Literature is another source for knowledge of Roman theatre.
