Gags and Greasepaint

This volume is a paean to the "e;Revue"e;, the "e;Fit-Up"e; and the fifty or more travelling roadshows which traversed the roads of Ireland during the heyday of the "e;fit-ups"e;, the decades prior to the Second World War. This book is a personal memoir of one of the "e;goddesses"e; of Irish repertory theatre*Vic (Victoria Loving)*the woman known as the "e;Sequin Queen"e;*as recounted by her granddaughter, one of the last of these travelling artistes. It is a celebration of Ireland's "e;curtain up"e;, and the "e;five-and-nine"e;, the fairground barker and the circus tober. It is a hymn to the artist whose home was the road and whose stage-wing voices lie hidden in the boarded-up hall and the abandoned outhouse. Listen up!*for one last garish display of the paint-glow, one final tread of the magic footboard.