Lanterna Rally

Author: Rev John Talbot Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-06

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9781330849095

Excerpt from The Parish Theatre: A Brief Account of Its Rise, Its Present Condition, and Its Prospects, to Which Is Added, a Descriptive List of One Hundred Choice Plays Suitable for the Parish Theatre Most people will be astonished, and not a few scandalized, at the title of this booklet. Parish and theatre are contradictory terms for many; to associate them may sound like flat blasphemy. Perhaps this is the first occasion for using the phrase, The Parish Theatre. Yet the institution itself exists, has been in existence, in this country for half a century at least, in the old world, off and on perhaps since parishes began to be; but it had no particular name, and because of that fact perhaps few people were aware of its existence. Now that it is properly baptized, with its name inscribed in the register, its personality may take on proportions. It will be recognized at once by the experienced as a department of another institution known as the Amateur Theatre. Within the last thirty years most Americans have become acquainted with the amateur theatre, either as amateur actors or the admiring audience. This is not to speak flippantly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.