Gags and greasepaint : a tribute to the Irish 'fit-ups' / by Vikki Jackson ; edited by Micheal O hAodha.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Jackson, Vikki, 1954-

Contributor:

• O hAodha, Micheal.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Traveling theater--Ireland--History--20th century.
• Repertory theater--Ireland--History--20th century.
• Actresses--Ireland--Biography.
• Loving, Vic, 1890-1974.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is a paean to the "Revue", the "Fit-Up" and the fifty or more travelling roadshows which traversed the roads of Ireland during the heyday of the "fit-ups", the decades prior to the Second World War. This book is a personal memoir of one of the "goddesses" of Irish repertory theatre?Vic (Victoria Loving)?the woman known as the "Sequin Queen"?as recounted by her granddaughter, one of the last of these travelling artistes. It is a celebration of Ireland's "curtain up", and the "five-...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; OPENING CHORUS; PROLOGUE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW-BUSINESS; THE SEQUIN QUEEN; FLASH PARADE; SHOWBIZ KIDS; OTHER SIDE OF THE FOOTLIGHTS; OTHER SHOWS; MAEMACK; PARLEY; SELECTED REFERENCES

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [101]-102).

ISBN:

• 1-282-33433-6
• 9786612334337
• 1-4438-1178-5

OCLC:

830168497