Performing Arts History & Criticism
Desperate Stages
New Brunswick's Theatre in the 1840s
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1987
- Category
- History & Criticism, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780864920676
- Publish Date
- Jan 1987
- List Price
- $9.95
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Description
Desperate Stages tells the stories of a disgraced one-time playwright, a starving actor, and a failed actor-manager, whose lives crossed in Fredericton in 1845. Together they provided New Brunswick with some of its most exciting drama and its wildest theatre riot.
About the author
Edward Mullaly lives in Fredericton, where he taught in the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick, specializing in drama production.