Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.

Her acting began with the Birmingham Repertory Company and she soon became the toast of the West End.

In 1775, with events outpacing communications, the Second Continental Congress began acting as the provisional government to run the American Revolutionary War and gain the colonies their collective independence.

Bruce Campbell began acting as a teenager and soon began making short Super 8 movies with friends.

Chaplin quickly began work in another role, touring with his brother — who was also pursuing an acting career — in a comedy sketch called Repairs.

Love began a budding acting career in the late 1980s, landing roles in two Alex Cox films ( Sid and Nancy and Straight to Hell ), but was ultimately dissatisfied with it and returned to stripping, where she was recognized and photographed by customers at a bar in McMinnville, Oregon.

In 1996, Love began obtaining small acting parts again in Basquiat and Feeling Minnesota ( 1996 ), before landing the co-starring role of Larry Flynt's wife, Althea, in Miloš Forman's 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, against Columbia Pictures ' reluctance due to her low profile and " troubled " past.

Starting in 1996, Guest began writing, directing and acting in his own series of heavily improvised films.

People began recognizing Flockhart's acting ability when William Esper ( Mason Gross ' theatre director and Flockhart's acting teacher ) made an exception to policy by allowing Flockhart to perform on the main stage.

At age 11, he began his acting career, appearing on the British television soap opera Coronation Street, which was produced at Granada Studios by Granada Television in Manchester.

She became his girlfriend shortly thereafter and began acting in his films.

With the introduction of the third actor ( an innovation attributed to Sophocles ), acting also began to be regarded as a skill to be rewarded with prizes, requiring a long apprenticeship in the chorus.

In 1956, Hackman began pursuing an acting career ; he joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California.

Connick began his acting career as a tail gunner in the World War II film, Memphis Belle, in 1990.

After trying various jobs, Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s.

In 1964 the acting mayor, Erik Jonsson, began working to change the community's image.

He also began acting at Baltimore's Holliday Street Theater, owned by John T. Ford, where the Booths had performed frequently.

He also developed an interest in acting as a career while in college but began thinking seriously about directing when he was in the Air Force.

Alexander began his acting career on the New York stage and is an accomplished singer and dancer.

His acting career began when he signed a seven year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and played the role of Tarzan in Tarzan the Ape Man ( 1932 ).

Brandauer began acting onstage in 1962.

He then began an amateur Off-Broadway acting career in New York City and served as an understudy in Broadway productions.

He began composing it in the summer of 1810, and completed it in March 1811.

In the late 1750s he began composing symphonies, and by 1761 he had composed a triptych ( Morning, Noon, and Evening ) solidly in the " contemporary " mode.

When Haydn and Mozart began composing, symphonies were played as single movements — before, between, or as interludes within other works — and many of them lasted only ten or twelve minutes ; instrumental groups had varying standards of playing, and the continuo was a central part of music-making.

In 2002, Love began composing an album with Linda Perry ; the record, America's Sweetheart, was released on Virgin Records in February 2004, was embraced by critics with mixed reviews.

During the interim, Mark Mothersbaugh began composing music for the TV show Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and released an elaborately packaged solo cassette, Musik for Insomniaks, which was later expanded and released as two CDs in 1988.

He began building a reputation as England's most promising young composer, composing a symphony, a concerto, and several overtures, among them the Overture di Ballo, in 1870.

He also began composing De Vita Sua, his autobiographical poem.

While his younger brother began composing and " plugging " in Tin Pan Alley from the age of eighteen, Ira worked as a cashier in his father's Turkish baths.

The group began composing and performing their own songs during this time including a Brown composition called " Goin ' Back to Rome " and a ballad Brown co-wrote with Terry titled " Please, Please, Please ".

Adams began composing at the age of ten and first heard his music performed around the age of 13 or 14.

Victor Hugo published an unrhymed French version by Ernest Fouinet of this poem in the notes to Les Orientales ( 1829 ) and subsequent French poets began to make their own attempts at composing original " pantoums ".

Largely a self-taught musician, he reportedly began composing at the age of four.

At the time he began composing, European music was dominated by the style galant, a reaction against the highly evolved intricacy of the Baroque.

Having completed the scenario, Wagner began writing the libretto in 1862, and followed this by composing the overture.

He soon began to have doubts and ceased composing.

Sullivan began his composing career with a series of ambitious works, interspersed with hymns, parlour ballads and other light pieces.

His early recollections were musical ; he was taught to play the piano and violin, and began composing when he was about twelve.

He also attended and wrote a report on the inauguration of a statue to Beethoven in Bonn, and began composing La damnation de Faust, incorporating the earlier Huit scènes de Faust.

At an early age Loewe learned to play piano by ear and helped his father rehearse, and he began composing songs at age seven.

A second generation of Bluegrass musicians began performing, composing and recording in the mid-to late-1960s, although many had played in first generation bands from a young age.

Despite the distinctions noted, many troubadours were also known as jongleurs, either before they began composing or alongside.

Musicians of note in this genre include Collegium Vocale Köln ( who first began using this technique in 1968 ), Michael Vetter, David Hykes, Jim Cole, Ry Cooder, Paul Pena ( mixing the traditional Tuvan style with that of American Blues ), Steve Sklar and Kiva ( specializing in jazz / world beat genres and composing for overtone choirs ).

After a stint teaching at Darmstadt from 1956 to 1961, Tudor began to wind up his activities as a pianist to concentrate on composing.

Bizet then began composing Don Rodrigue, an adaptation of the El Cid story by Louis Gallet and Édouard Blau.