02645nam 2200637Ia 450 991082263900332120240313154828.01-282-33433-697866123343371-4438-1178-5(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(OCoLC)261955083(FINmELB)ELB144422(EXLCZ)99243000000001554420081219d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGags and greasepaint a tribute to the Irish 'fit-ups' /by Vikki Jackson ; edited by Micheal O hAodha1st ed.Newcastle 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 centuryActressesIrelandBiographyTraveling theaterHistoryRepertory theaterHistoryActresses792.09417Jackson Vikki1954-1704925O hAodha Micheal869455MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822639003321Gags and greasepaint4091227UNINA