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My Life in Pieces - An Alternative Autobiography (Hardcover, Hardback 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 recaptures the multifarious
people, productions and events which have fed into his lifeblood
and left their indelible mark. Starting with his first ever visit
to the theatre - Peter Pan - he takes us through a somewhat chaotic
boyhood in southern Africa and South London, an aborted university
career, a testing time at drama school and on to an acting career
that has encompassed roles in the West End and stand-out character
parts in films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral. Callow writes
with his customary perceptiveness, wit and flair about the
remarkable people he has encountered in the course of his career:
Laurence Olivier, Paul Scofield and Michael Gambon at the National
Theatre; then Alec Guinness, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, David
Hare, Simon Gray and Richard Eyre, among others. This being an
alternative autobiography, he also writes about figures he did not
meet but whose influence was vital to a full understanding of his
craft: figures such as Stanislavsky and Michael Chekhov, Nureyev
and Cocteau, Laughton and Welles. There are also other,
not-quite-legit performers like Tony Hancock, Tommy Cooper and
Frankie Howerd. Also included are accounts of his life as a solo
performer, most notably as Charles Dickens. The result is a
heartening, instructive and utterly beguiling book which, in
tracing Simon Callow's own 'sentimental education', goes to show
how rich and nourishing a life can be had in and around the
theatre. 'Callow's not simply a terrific actor who happens to
write. You could as well call him a terrific writer who happens to
act' The Times 'Essential... a gift for transforming personal
experience into blazingly intelligent, objective, critical
appreciation' Observer 'First rate... the best writer-actor we
have' David Hare, Guardian '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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