|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries: |
Research categories | Follow us on Twitter |
Research categories
View all topics in the newsView all reference sources at Encyclopedia.com |
|||
Malvern Festival
Malvern Festival, founded in 1929 by Barry Jackson, who provided much of the money to initiate and support it, as well as actors from his Birmingham Repertory Theatre company, distinguished players being imported for special parts. Jackson's long association with Bernard Shaw led him to devote the first year's programme entirely to his plays, with the first English production of The Apple Cart (with Cedric Hardwicke and Edith Evans) and revivals of Back to Methuselah, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Heartbreak House. Shaw became the patron-in-chief of the festival, and more than 20 of his plays were presented there, Geneva and In Good King Charles's Golden Days having their first productions in 1938 and 1939 respectively. Too True to be Good (1932) and The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (1935) were also given their first English productions at Malvern. Apart from Shaw, the productions of the festival ranged over 400 years of English drama, from Hickscorner (c.1513) to contemporary plays by Bridie, Drinkwater, Priestley, and others, the first non-Shavian play to be seen being Besier's The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1930). After the 1937 season Jackson withdrew and the festival was run by the manager of the Malvern Theatre. After the Second World War the festival was revived only once, in 1949, when Shaw's Buoyant Billions had its first English production. In 1964 the theatre, seating 799, was taken over by a Trust, and since 1977 the festival has been revived as a Shaw and Elgar Festival each spring, the rest of the year being taken up by visits from touring companies and productions by a resident amateur company. The theatre is now part of the Winter Gardens complex operated by the local authority, but the festival is organized by an independent voluntary body. Shaw's Pygmalion was staged in 1989 to mark the 60th anniversary.
|
|
|
Cite this article
PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Malvern Festival." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Malvern Festival." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-MalvernFestival.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Malvern Festival." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-MalvernFestival.html |
|
Great Malvern
Great Malvern or Malvern, town (1991 pop. 30,187), Worcestershire, W central England, on the eastern slopes of the scenic Malvern Hills . Occupying the site of the medieval Chase of Malvern (a royal forest of 7,000 acres/2,833 hectares), the town has become a health (mineral springs) and holiday resort. Malvern College, an independent coeducational school, was founded in 1862. The priory church of Great Malvern dates from 1085; the Norman arches of the interior remain intact. The annual Malvern festival of dramatics, associated with the plays of G. B. Shaw , was instituted in 1928. |
|
|
Cite this article
"Great Malvern." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Great Malvern." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-GMalvern.html "Great Malvern." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-GMalvern.html |
|
Malvern
Malvern, Jamaica, South Africa, UK, USA UK (England): named after the Malvern Hills, the name, formerly Mælfern and Malferna, means ‘Bare Hill’ from the Welsh moel ‘bare’ and bryn ‘hill’. The name is collective and includes Great Malvern and Little Malvern as well as the district which is known as Malvern Link from the Old English hlinc ‘ledge’ or ‘ridge’.
|
|
|
Cite this article
JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Malvern." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Malvern." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Malvern.html JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Malvern." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Malvern.html |
|
Malvern Hills
Malvern Hills range of hills, c.9 mi (14.5 km) long, W central England, in Herefordshire and Worcestershire. The highest points are the Worcester Beacon (1,395 ft/425 m) and the Hereford Beacon (1,114 ft/340 m); on the latter was an ancient British camp. |
|
|
Cite this article
"Malvern Hills." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Malvern Hills." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-MalvernHls.html "Malvern Hills." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-MalvernHls.html |
|
Malvern, Great
Malvern, Great & Malvern, Little Worcs. Mælfern c.1030, Malferna 1086 (DB). ‘Bare hill’. Celtic *mę̄l + *brïnn. Malvern Link, Link 1215, is from OE hlinc ‘ledge, terrace’.
|
|
|
Cite this article
A. D. MILLS. "Malvern, Great." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. A. D. MILLS. "Malvern, Great." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-MalvernGreatMalvernLittle.html A. D. MILLS. "Malvern, Great." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-MalvernGreatMalvernLittle.html |
|
Malvern Hill
Malvern Hill see Seven Days battles . |
|
|
Cite this article
"Malvern Hill." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Malvern Hill." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-MalvernH.html "Malvern Hill." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-MalvernH.html |
|
Malvern
Malvern England: see Great Malvern . |
|
|
Cite this article
"Malvern." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Malvern." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-Malvern.html "Malvern." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-Malvern.html |
|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries:
HighBeam™ Research, Inc. © Copyright 2012. All rights reserved.
The Encyclopedia.com advertising network includes:
