Bad Attitudes And, Jen's Party |
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Author:
| Owens, Agnes Eyre, Richard |
ISBN: | 978-0-7475-6591-8 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2003 |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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During the ten years from 1987 to 1997 that he was the director of the Royal National Theatre Richard Eyre kept a diary- a record that disarmingly captured a life at the heart of British cultural and political affairs. The powerful and the famous inevitably strut and fret upon its pages, but
National Service is also a moving personal journey, charted faithfully by a fiercely self-aware and frequently self-doubting individual. The job of grappling with a giant...
More DescriptionDuring the ten years from 1987 to 1997 that he was the director of the Royal National Theatre Richard Eyre kept a diary- a record that disarmingly captured a life at the heart of British cultural and political affairs. The powerful and the famous inevitably strut and fret upon its pages, but National Service is also a moving personal journey, charted faithfully by a fiercely self-aware and frequently self-doubting individual.
The job of grappling with a giant three-headed monster as complex as the Royal National Theatre is laid before us. So are good gossip, brilliant insights into personalities and relationships and a sense of the ridiculous, which Eyre is powerless to suppress. Like other consummate diarists such as Alan Clarke and Kenneth Tynan, Richard Eyre has a voice and point of view that jolt the reader into fresh understanding- and are instantly compelling.