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Gielgud on Gielgud

Gielgud on Gielgud

by JohnGielgud (Author)

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    Hardcover 2000

    $3.25
Synopsis

This title combines two volumes of memoirs by Sir John Gielgud. Comprising Stage Directions which is about stagecraft, and An Actor and His Time , it seeks to give accounts of the English theatre, dinner-party chat, dressing room encounters, and whispered asides on stage.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 400
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 02 Nov 2000
ISBN 10: 0340795026
ISBN 13: 9780340795026

Media Reviews
EARLY STAGES: A classic of theatrical reminiscence - Listener

'A superb, funny, moving, wonderfully fresh portrait of a young actor finding his feet and making his way in the theatre of the 20s and 30s - James Roose Evans

BACKWARD GLANCES: Turning these pages, I feel as though I know what it was like to have been just across the footlights from Ellen Terry, outside a stage door with Bancroft, or even opposite du Maurier at some hostess s dinner table ... skilfully and elegantly written with a delightfully straight-faced wit - Paul Daneman in The Sunday Times

Gielgud is uniquely qualified to conjure up the exhilarating world of the English theatre. Dinner-party chat, dressing room encounters, whispered asides on stage are all recounted in the familiar voice that is as easy to read as it is to listen to - The Daily Telegraph
Author Bio
Sir John Gielgud spent a lifetime on the stage and in front of the camera; his first film was in 1924 when he starred as Daniel in Who Is The Man? Venerated for giving gravitas to a variety of Shakespearean roles, Gielgud made the role of respected old sage his own, and is considered by many to have been one of the greatest actors of the Twentieth Century. He died in May 2000.