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A Life in Movies
This first volume of Michael Powell’s memoirs ranges from his boyhood and his first job in film, to his work with legendary film makers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Korda, and the pinnacle of his…
A Moment Towards the End of the Play ... An Autobiography
The autobiography of a much-loved stage and TV actor, a born raconteur and a natural writer. In his varied career Timothy West has worked in the box-office at Frinton, as assistant stage manager at Newquay,…
A Siegel film - An Autobiography
Don Siegel was one of Hollywood’s most controversial directors. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is one of the very few acknowledged science-fiction classics, and ‘Dirty Harry’ Callahan,…
An Actor Adrift
** 50% OFF! ** Yoshi Oida - a Japanese actor speaking neither English nor French - became the first member of Peter Brook's international theatre company in Paris in 1968 Trained in the traditional Japanese…
Broadway Sound - The Autobiography & Selected Essays of Robert Russell Bennett
The remarkable career of composer-orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981) encompassed a wide variety of both "legitimate" and popular music-making on Broadway, in Hollywood, and for television…
Cock-a-Doodle-Do / Memoirs of Charles B. Chochrane - several photographs - HARDBACK - published 1941
Diaries of Peter Pears 1936-78
Travel diaries reveal musical inspiration, personal memoirs, and notes on perfomance - 16 b/w illustrations - 272 pages
Enter a Fox - Further Adventures of a Paranoid
Simon Gray’s sheer disbelief at what the world throws at him provides a melange of humorous anecdote and bleak, black humour on the subject of what is happening, or failing to happen with the plays…
Free Association
The actor, director and playwright, Steven Berkoff, recounts his childhood in London’s East End, the trips “up west” during his teenage years, a formative year with family in the USA,…
Hamlet and the Baker’s Son - My Life in Theatre and Politics
"He is the inventor of the internationally renowned Forum Theatre system and 'Theatre of the Oppressed', including Image Theatre, Invisible Theatre, Rainbow of Desire and Legislative Theatre. He travels…
Hearing the Light - A Life in the Theatre
This highly enjoyable memoir delves deeply into the theatricality of the industry. The author’s almost fanatical interest in opera, his formative period as lighting designer at Glyndebourne and his…
I An Actor - Another Great Actor Explores Himself
At last the memoirs of Nicholas Craig - possibly the most controversial thespian of his generation - are re-released for a grateful audience, fully updated with a wealth of new and devastatingly honest…
Joan’s Book
The life story of the woman who singlehandedly reshaped the British theatre scene of the 50s and 60s, and whose Theatre Workshop in London’s Stratford East famously created Oh, What a Lovely War!…
