Stott gives a fine description of how, after long years of apprenticeship, Grimaldi created the figure who was, he says, one of the most significant theatrical developments of the 19th century.
Understandably, Berlin dominated theatrical developments, especially because of the work of Brecht at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm.
In doing so it presaged one of the most interesting theatrical developments of the past 20 years.
Underlying the theatrical developments of the 19th century, and in many cases inspiring them, were the social upheavals that followed the French Revolution.
"It was," says Brotchie, "as though a modernist play from the middle of the next century had been dropped on the stage without all the intervening theatrical developments that might have acclimatised the audience to its conventions".
No one in the company talks about this much, but of all the many wondrous theatrical developments to emerge from the Off Off Broadway theater of the 1970s — a kind of gay artistic golden age in New York — few survived the decade intact.
It's a kind of theatrical arrested development, this being in the grip of mannerisms that never change.
Instead we are being bombarded every day with theatrical new developments (Papandreou's referendum, Berlusconi's wavering on reform and elections) that would make us think that it is all the fault of some corrupt and/or lazy politicians.
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While at Woolly Mammoth, Pressman was in charge of a $5-million nonprofit organization known as a center for theatrical research and development.
