Coveney Michael - The Final Curtain Obituaries Of Fifty Great Actors - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Michael Coveney has been writing theatrical obituaries alongside reviews for several decades and makes a telling sometimes surprising selection of the best performers of our time from Laurence Olivier to Alan Rickman Peggy Ashcroft to Helen Mc Crory Richard Briers to Ken Dodd. Most of these obits appeared in the Guardian several in the Observer the Financial Times and the Evening Standard. The fifty articles are arranged in chronological order of each actor's demise and constitute a vivid history of postwar theatre through the lives of the actors the abstract and brief chronicles of the time as Hamlet called them. There are happy/sad juxtapositions of shooting stars Robert Stephens and Alan Bates; tragic niece and aunt Natasha Richardson and Lynn Redgrave; classical queens Diana Rigg and Barbara Jefford; and versatile showtime hoofers Una Stubbs and Lionel Blair.
Title: The Final Curtain Obituaries Of Fifty Great Actors
Author(s): Coveney Michael, Mia Breuer
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781911397625
Pages: 256 Pages, 50 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 12/28/2023
Category: Biography & True Stories