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Oscar Asche, Orientalism, and British Musical Comedy (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies: Lives of the Theatre)
Oscar Asche Orientalism and British Musical Comedy - Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies: Lives of the Theatre Author:Brian Singleton Producer, actor, and author, Oscar Asche was one of the most commercially successful of the actor/managers in the first half of the twentieth century. Though virtually written out of theatre history because of his triumph on the popular stages of musical comedy, he is now remembered as having a successful career as an actor and producer of Shake... more »speare. He was an innovator in stage lighting and one of the first to use it as a language of the stage rather than as mere illumination. But, his greatest triumph of all was his ability to capture the public imagination during World War I and provide audiences with escapist musicals set in fictional orients.« less