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All is FortuneAnd Other Theatre Stories
Format: Paperback
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This unusual collection of short stories captures the essence of life in the theatre. Behind the superficial glamour lies a world marked by ambition, jealousy and heartache.
Among stories featured in All is Fortuneare an actress under stress at an audition, a struggling playwright committing a deception, a biographer falling out with his subject, a female playwright suffering sexual harassment, and many others. Lighter stories tell of the mysterious disappearance of a member of an amateur dramatic society, the unrequited love of a chorus girl in a musical, and a monologue by an elderly jobbing actor.
Jonathan Croall, a leading theatre historian and biographer, and the son of well-known actors, has created these imaginative stories with warmth, insight and humour, bringing vividly to life a host of well-drawn characters.
'Jonathan Croall has written extensively and illuminatingly about acting and actors. In these stories he attempts something different, a sequence of shiny, shard-like vignettes - some ironic, some poetic, some straightforwardly realistic - which reflect the life of the theatre in all its many aspects. Haunting.' Simon Callow, actor and writer
Format: Paperback
Published: 2023
Pages: 204
Publisher: Book Guild Limited
ISBN: 9781915603814
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Our conditions mean the following:
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- Very Good - only minor imperfections such as minor scuffs to edge or cover or a price written in pencil or shop sticker.
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