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Now recognized as one of today's greatest theater directors and winner of two Tony Awards-and director of this season's most acclaimed play, Democracy, by his frequent collaborator Michael Frayn-Michael Blakemore followed a unique path to success. In this book, he discusses his boyhood in Australia and his start in England as an actor-his life changed by a tour of Titus Andronicus with Laurence Olivier at the height of his powers-and continuing up to his first success as a director with A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. In recounting his early life, Blakemore provides "a pitch-perfect account of dreaming youth, driven, frustrated, and eventually deepened by a realistic love of the theatre" (David Hare).
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Michael Blakemore was born in Australia but has worked as an actor and, later, as a director in England since 1950. He lives in London.
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An unwilling medical student in Australia in 1949 when touring actor Robert Morley encouraged him to try drama school, Blakemore (b. 1928) worked his way to London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. He then landed a succession of small parts with British repertory theaters. Struggling with a variety of roles and directors, he gained confidence in his own ability to interpret a broad range of characters. Eventually, he realized his real gift was in conceptualizing the play as a whole, i.e., directing. His first success, 1968's A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, led to a brilliant directing career. This memoir will give readers new understanding of how actors internalize roles and a glimpse of what it's like to be a director, too (although Blakemore ends this memoir just as his directing career is taking off). His insider's history of British theater is also an outsider's history of British culture. Growing up Australian, coming into his prime in England, returning to Australia to revisit his roots and then returning to work in Thatcher's Britain, Blakemore comes to his "final argument with England": her "carelessness" with her colonial subjects. This is an insightful guide to the development of modern British theater. Photos.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0571224466
- ISBN 13 9780571224463
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
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