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(Working Title)
COMING SOON FROM INDEPENPRESS (Early 2011)
Fom the back cover:
STOPPARD's
original Guildenstern, a heartbreaking Newman Noggs and
a definitive Lord Peter Wimsey, Edward Petherbridge is
one of Britain's finest and most highly respected actors. In
a distinguished career spanning more than half a century he
has proved equally at home in Greek tragedy and French
farce, in Shakespeare and Chekhov, Moliere and O'Neill,
Beckett and Bennett, Coward and Kurt Weill.
In this fascinating collection of essays, he tells the
story of his life in the theatre (low ebbs included),
from his first acting lesson, watching Norman Evans in
Humpty Dumpty at the Bradford Alhambra, and his early years in 'tatty' rep, through his frustrations and triumphs at the Old Vic under the leadership of Laurence
Olivier, to his role in the formation of the democratic
Actors' Company and his membership of the Royal
Shakespeare Company. Along the way he recounts several 'unscheduled' appearances, in Peter Brook's Oedipus, for
instance, and in Wormwood Scrubs as a young conscientious
objector.
Part memoir and part master class, this unique anthology
of prose and poetry, lavishly illustrated throughout by
Petherbridge's own artwork and many rare photographs, is a wonderfully
entertaining, incisive and often moving exposition of
the very heart of the mystery of acting.
Self-portrait, 2010 |
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Read excerpts from Edward's forthcoming book here:
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