Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at London's National Theatre

✍ Scribed by Hytner, Nicholas

• Book ID: 109530116
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 572 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780451493408

✦ Synopsis

From the Tony Award and Laurence Olivier Award-winning former director of London's National Theatre --this is a fascinating, candid, eloquent memoir about his career directing theater, producing films and opera, and working closely with some of the world's most celebrated actors.
The list of Nicholas Hytner's accomplishments is long and distinguished: as Artistic Director of London's National Theatre from 2003-2015, he directed and produced a great number of their most popular and memorable plays and musicals, many of which have come to Broadway: Carousel, Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors , David Hare's Stuff Happens among them. He directed both the London and Broadway productions of Miss Saigon , each of which ran for ten years. He directed Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III on both stage and screen. In short: He is one of today's most successful and admired theatrical impresarios.
In Balancing Acts , Hytner gives...