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Article: Rough Magic: Making Theatre at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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- Theatre History Studies
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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By Steven Adler. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001; pp. xxii + 272. $50 cloth, $20 paper.
Steven Adler takes his title, Rough Magic: Making Theatre at the Royal Shakespeare, from Prospero's soliloquy in Act V. It is a fitting quotation from Shakespeare whose magic sustains the repertoire of England's renowned company. And "rough" aptly describes the financial and critical seas which the RSC has plied during the 1990s, the decade Adler covers. Adler is an American who served as a professional stage manager in New York before joining the faculty at the University of California, San Diego, where he heads the graduate program in stage ...