My Life in Pieces: An Alternative Autobiography

✍ Scribed by Callow, Simon

• Book ID: 108917587
• Publisher: Nick Hern
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 394 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781780010120

✦ Synopsis

An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre.

In My Life in Pieces Simon Callow retraces his life through the multifarious performers, writers, productions and events which have left their indelible mark on him.

The story begins with Peter Pan – his first ever visit to the theatre – before transporting us to southern Africa and South London, where Callow spent much of his childhood. Later, he charms his way into a job at the National Theatre box office courtesy of his hero, Laurence Olivier – and thus consummated a lifetime's love affair with theatre.

Alongside Olivier, we encounter Paul Scofield, Michael Gambon, Alan Bennett and Richard Eyre, all of whom Callow has worked with, as well as John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Alec Guinness, David Hare, Simon Gray and many more.

He writes too about figures he did not meet but who greatly influenced his life and work, figures such as Stanislavsky, Nureyev and...