Theatricals

The idea of retelling theatre stories began with a second-hand copy of Donald Sinden’s Theatrical Anecdotes. Other anthologies, biographies and histories followed. Widening circles of biblio-graphies soon spread out into earlier anthologies and accounts, from practitioners within the theatre – Oxberry, Bunn, Wilkinson, Macready – as well as from the memoirs of ardent theatregoers – Pepys, Hunt, Moore, Haydon… But the remarkable degree to which certain stories are repeated again and again ma...