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Garrick Club i Players – aktorskie kluby dżentelmeńskie
GARRICK CLUB AND PLAYERS – GENTLEMEN’S CLUBS OF ACTORS

Author(s): Alicja Kędziora
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: gentlemen’s club; actor; Garrick; Players; London; New York

Summary/Abstract: A Gentlemen’s Club is an institution associating people of approximately the same social status, political preference, professional position, or interests, to which only previously accepted members can be admitted. London’s Garrick Club and New York’s Players Club are unique actors’ clubs in the world, which have specifi ed precisely their professional activity profi les and which own collections of theatre memorabilia and conduct wide-scale charitable activity. Both organizations have similar management systems, a similar model of artistic activity, organization and promotion, as well as member recruitment system. Garrick and Players are one of the last places, where you can naturally come into direct contact with the XIX century culture, where beauty and uniqueness lies in constancy and preservation of the morality of the old days.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 189-201
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish