A Practical Guide to Private Theatricals

Excerpt from A Practical Guide to Private Theatricals: Embracing How to Form an Amateur Company, Arrange and Light a Stage Paint the Scenes, Produce Effects, Make Up Properties and Dresses, Select Plays Suited for Home Performance; General Direction on Amateur Acting, &C. &C OW many young folks are there who feeling within themselves a certain amount of dramatic power, whether of the tragic or comic vein - desire to pass away some of the long and weary evenings of winter time, by entertaining their friends with a drawing-room Performance, could they. 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.