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My Life in Pieces - An Alternative Autobiography (Paperback, New edition)
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My Life in Pieces - An Alternative Autobiography (Paperback, New edition)
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An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the
theatre, winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography.
In My Life in Pieces Simon Callow retraces his life through the
multifarious performers, writers, productions and events which have
left their indelible mark on him. The story begins with Peter Pan -
his first ever visit to the theatre - before transporting us to
southern Africa and South London, where Callow spent much of his
childhood. Later, he charms his way into a job at the National
Theatre box office courtesy of his hero, Laurence Olivier - and
thus consummated a lifetime's love affair with theatre. Alongside
Olivier, we encounter Paul Scofield, Michael Gambon, Alan Bennett
and Richard Eyre, all of whom Callow has worked with, as well as
John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Alec Guinness, David Hare, Simon
Gray and many more. He writes too about figures he did not meet but
who greatly influenced his life and work, figures such as
Stanislavsky, Nureyev and Cocteau, as well as Charles Laughton and
Orson Welles. And he even makes room for not-quite- legit
performers like Tony Hancock, Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard - and
Mrs Shufflewick. The result is a passionate, instructive and
beguiling book which, in tracing Simon Callow's own 'sentimental
education', leaves us enriched by his generosity and wisdom. 'first
rate... the best writer-actor we have' David Hare 'Simon Callow
combines zest, originality and passion and has elegantly turned his
views and life in the theatre into an astonishing memoir' Richard
Eyre
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