My First Play
My First Play
An Anthology of Theatrical Beginnings
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My First Play is a unique collection of pieces by playwrights, actors and theatre directors - all of them regular Nick Hern Books authors - in response to the simplest of briefs: write about your first play.
Candid, hilarious, and often sharply revealing, the resulting pieces - many of them written in the hurly-burly of work on a new production - combine to prove the power of theatre to entrance us, and hold us captive in its spell.
Included here are remarkable first-person accounts from many of our leading playwrights: Caryl Churchill performing Cinderella to her parents with a cast of dolls and stuffed animals; Howard Brenton pinching his first main character from a boy's comic; Jack Thorne having to become a thief to get his first play on; Conor McPherson still waiting to write his 'first play'.
There are also enthralling insights into the first steps in theatre of some of our principal actors and theatre directors: Antony Sher discovering theatre in Cape Town during the apartheid years; Dominic Cooke paying the price for using a real knife in performance; Harriet Walter's photographic recall of the annual outing to Peter Pan; Richard Eyre on an open-air performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream that descends into chaos.
Published to celebrate twenty-five years of Nick Hern Books, the royalties from the sale of this magical collection of sixty-six miniature autobiographies will be donated to the Theatre Section of the Writers' Guild.
'A terrific read... This is a revealing, funny, quirky, sexy, confessional, touching collection of love stories by people for whom theatre isn't so much a vocation as a lifelong passion'
- The Stage
'Humorous, passionate and revealing... packed with comical anecdotes and serious insights'
- Times Literary Supplement
'Delightful... provides oceans of wisdom and experience'
- British Theatre Guide
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BOOK DETAILS
BOOK DETAILS
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781848423398
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Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Number of pages: 192
Width (mm): 129
Height (mm): 198
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