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What Do I Know?: People, Politics and the Arts

English

By (author): Richard Eyre

Since his successful spell running the National Theatre, Richard Eyres career as a director of film, theatre and opera has made him a leading cultural figure and a hugely respected commentator on the arts.

This book collects over fifty short pieces written by Eyre about people he has known and worked with, ideas he has struggled with, things that have moved, delighted or infuriated him. He writes with candour, perceptiveness and charm, and always with an eye for the telling anecdote or the revealing detail that betrays the inner life of his subject.

Here we encounter Arthur Miller recounting to Eyre the events of the first night of Death of a Salesman; Harold Pinter overheard in a characteristically pugnacious exchange; Judi Dench racing clockwork chicks across a table, her face illuminated by demented glee.

Here too are Alan Bennett, Kate Winslet, Margaret Thatcher, John Mortimer and Marlon Brando, each of them brought vividly and unforgettably to life in the space of a few hundred words.

Eyre also includes pieces about the monarchy, about the Iraq War, about Alzheimers Disease (from which his mother suffered), about his love of climbing (from the comparative safety of his armchair), and about the relationship between music and sexuality.

What Do I Know? is a book that tackles serious ideas with a light and often mischievous touch, and it confirms Eyres place as one of our foremost writers and cultural statesmen.

'Richard Eyre's writing is illuminated by all he has achieved as the consummate director of our age. He is the wise and gentle expert on the human heart.' Ian McEwan

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Product Details
  • Weight: 605g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Oct 2014
  • Publisher: Nick Hern Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781848424180

About Richard Eyre

Richard Eyre is a theatre director writer and former Artistic Director of the National Theatre (a position he held from 1988 to 1997). He has worked widely in theatre and opera - including in the West End at the National Theatre and the Royal Opera House on Broadway and in Aix-en-Provence. His film and television work includes The Ploughman's Lunch Tumbledown Iris Notes on a Scandal and Changing Stages a six-part look at twentieth-century theatre. He has received many awards for theatre TV and film and was knighted in 1997.

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