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Biografia jednej z najbardziej charyzmatycznych postaci brytyjskiego teatru i kina, napisana przez Michaela Coveneya, to wnikliwy portret Maggie Smith, który ukazuje nie tylko jej niezwykły talent, ale także osobowość, która na trwałe wpisała się w historię sztuki aktorskiej. Zaczynając od skromnych początków, artystka zyskała uznanie dzięki wyjątkowym umiejętnościom, które pozwalały jej na przekazywanie emocji za pomocą drobnych gestów i mimiki. Jej charakterystyczne, lekko ironiczne spojrzenie oraz figlarne przekrzywienie głowy stały się znakiem rozpoznawczym,...

This is the vital story of the amateur theatre as it developed from the medieval guilds to the modern theatre of Ayckbourn and Pinter, with a few mishaps and missed cues along the way. Michael Coveney – a former member of Ilford's Renegades - tells this tale with a charm and wit that will have you shouting out for an encore. Between the two world wars, amateur theatre thrived across the UK, from Newcastle to Norwich, from Bolton to Birmingham and Bangor, championed by the likes of George Bernard Shaw, Sybil Thorndike, and J B Priestley. Often born out of a particular political cause or...

Leading drama critic Michael Coveney invites you on a tour of over 50 of London's most iconic and important theatres, with stories of the architecture and the productions which have defined each one. Sumptuous photographs by Peter Dazeley of the public areas, auditoriums and backstage areas complete the picture.

This book draws on a variety of substantive examples from science, technology, medicine, literature, and popular culture to highlight how a new technoscientifically mediated and modified phase and form of technosleep is now in the making – in the global north at least; and to discuss the consequences for our relationships to sleep, the values we accord sleep and the very nature and normativities of sleep itself.The authors discuss how technosleep, at its simplest denotes the ‘coming together’ or ‘entanglements’ of sleep and technology and sensitizes us to various shifts in...