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Talking Theatre
Author(s): Richard Eyre (Author)
- Publisher: Nick Hern Books
- Publication Date: 17 Aug. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 347 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848420463
- ISBN-13: 9781848420465
Book Description
This work features a series of interviews by the renowned theatre and film director originally commissioned by the BBC and broadcast as part of their ‘Millenium project’. Richard Eyre talks to forty of the 20th century’s most important and celebrated practitioners of the performing arts. The interviewees include Dame Judi Dench, Sir John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave and Sir Ian McKellen, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller and Alan Bennett; Cameron Mackintosh, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim.
Editorial Reviews
Review
A rich, stimulating treasure trove. Eyre’s interviews exactly hit the spot: in revealing themselves, his subjects also give the reader a panoramic view of modern theatre. –Michael Billington
A mine of first-hand theatrical information and insight and, better still, a wonderful compendium of high-grade gossip. –Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
About the Author
Interviews with: John Gielgud, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Vanessa Redgrave, Arthur Miller, Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Alan Bennett, David Hare, Christopher Hampton, Tony Kushner, Patrick Marber, Peter Brook, Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn, Robert Lepage, Stephen Sondheim, Cameron Mackintosh, and many more.
