02613nam 2200613Ia 450 991045679960332120200520144314.01-282-33433-697866123343371-4438-1178-5(CKB)2430000000015544(EBL)1133025(OCoLC)830168497(SSID)ssj0000297185(PQKBManifestationID)11224578(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000297185(PQKBWorkID)10328173(PQKB)11492157(MiAaPQ)EBC1133025(Au-PeEL)EBL1133025(CaPaEBR)ebr10676963(CaONFJC)MIL233433(EXLCZ)99243000000001554420081219d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGags and greasepaint[electronic resource] a tribute to the Irish 'fit-ups' /by Vikki Jackson ; edited by Micheal O hAodhaNewcastle Cambridge Scholars Pub.20081 online resource (130 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84718-510-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [101]-102).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 REFERENCESThis 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-...Traveling theaterIrelandHistory20th centuryRepertory theaterIrelandHistory20th centuryActressesIrelandBiographyElectronic books.Traveling theaterHistoryRepertory theaterHistoryActresses792.09417Jackson Vikki1954-977768O hAodha Micheal869455MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456799603321Gags and greasepaint2227496UNINA