The Final Curtain - Obituaries of Fifty Great Actors

Michael Coveney has been writing theatrical obituaries alongside reviews for several decades and makes a telling, sometimes surprising, selection of the best performers of our time, from Laurence Olivier to Alan Rickman, Peggy Ashcroft to Helen McCrory, Richard Briers to Ken Dodd. Most of these obits appeared in the Guardian, several in the Observer, the Financial Times and the Evening Standard. The fifty articles are arranged in chronological order of each actor’s demise and constitute a vivid history of postwar theatre through the lives of the actors, ‘the abstract and brief chronicles of the time’ as Hamlet called them. There are happy/sad juxtapositions of shooting stars Robert Stephens and Alan Bates; tragic niece and aunt, Natasha Richardson and Lynn Redgrave; classical queens Diana Rigg and Barbara Jefford; and versatile showtime hoofers Una Stubbs and Lionel Blair.

General

Imprint:	Unicorn Publishing Group
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2023
Authors:	Michael Coveney
Foreword by:	Sam Mendes
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-911397-62-5
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-911397-62-1
Barcode:	9781911397625

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