The First Thrust : The Chichester Festival Theatre

London England: Davis-Poynter, 1975. Hardback. Price clipped to D/J. Some writing in pencil to back inside cover about the plays, the authors,. the directors, the designers, and the leading players. The author tells the story of how an unconventional theatre - the dream of one man - came to be built in a quiet West Sussex city, despite opposition and pessimism for all quarters. He discusses the challenges that the open stage presents to the actor, the difrector, and the designer, and the problems of choosing plays for it. He examines the use to which the theatre has been put during Oliver's four years as Artistic Director, Sir John Clements' eight years, and Keith Michell's first year, maintaining that a new theatre shape should elicit a new theatre style. In the second half of the book he gives a detailed critical survey of all the work so far perfored at Chichester, analysing each production separately. This is a book for all who love the theatre, and who care about its development as an art form - it is also a fine tribute to the creation and continued existence of 'the impossible theatre'. 215 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.