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  • From Silent Film Idol to Superman
    Jonathan Croall
    A popular romantic actor with a fan club rivalling that of Ivor Novello, John Stuart was frequently mobbed by his adoring fans. He starred in films by Alfred Hitchcock and G.W. Pabst, played opposite British stars such as Madeleine Carroll, Fay Compton, Gracie Fields, and German actor Conrad Veidt, and was also the first actor to ever speak on screen in Britain. Yet despite ...
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    67,51 €

  • Performing King Lear
    Jonathan Croall
    King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is performed with increasing frequency, both in Britain and America. It has been staged more often in the last fifty years than in the previous 350 years of its performance history, its bleak message clearly chiming in with the growing harshness, cru...
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    48,36 €

  • John Gielgud
    Jonathan Croall
    New in paperback, John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of the finest classical actor of the twentieth century. This entertaining but critical biography charts the ups and downs of Gielgud’s long and glittering career, from his young ground-breaking Hamlet to his later success in plays by Pinter, Storey, Bond and Bennett, a...
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    44,76 €

  • Buzz Buzz! Playwrights, Actors and Directors at the National Theatre
    Jonathan Croall
    Containing over a hundred interviews conducted over the last fifteenyears with leading directors, actors and writers at the NationalTheatre, Buzz Buzz! is a fantastic compendium that offers unrivalled insight into the work and practice of the best theatre talent. In these illuminating interviews playwrights such as Michael Frayn,Kwame Kwei-Armah, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, David Hare,...
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    44,62 €

  • Peter Hall’s ’Bacchai’
    Jonathan Croall
    ’Bacchai is one of the top dozen plays ever written. Whenever it’s performed, it seems extraordinarily timely. It’s haunted me all my life.’Peter HallAfter huge successes with Aeschylus’ The Oresteia and Sophocles’ The Oedipus Plays, Peter Hall turned to Bacchai, Euripides’ powerful tragedy about the cult of Dionysus. On the National’s Olivier stage he presented a stunningly im...
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    28,14 €

  • The Coming of Godot
    Jonathan Croall
    Fifty years ago Sir Peter Hall directed the English language world premiere of Samuel Backett’s Waiting for Godot. Now he has returned to this extraordinary classic, the quintessential absurdist piece that has become one of the most important works of modern drama.Jonathan Croall, who had access to rehearsals for this landmark anniversary production, combines an account of this...
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    18,83 €