National Service
Diary of a Decade
Richard Eyre(Author)
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published on 6. October 2003
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-0-7475-6589-5 (ISBN)
Description
During the ten years from 1987 to 1997 that he was Director of the Royal National Theatre, Richard Eyre kept a diary - a record that disarmingly captured a life at the heart of British cultural and political affairs. The powerful and the famous inevitably strut and fret upon its pages, but NATIONAL SERVICE is also a moving personal journey, charted faithfully by a fiercely self-aware and frequently self-doubting individual. The job of grappling with a giant three-headed monster as complex as the Royal National Theatre is laid before us. So are good gossip, brilliant insights into personalities and relationships and a sense of the ridiculous, which Eyre is powerless to suppress. Like other consummate diarists such as Alan Clarke and Kenneth Tynan, Richard Eyre has a voice and point of view that jolt the reader into fresh understanding - and are instantly compelling.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Weight
829 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7475-6589-5 (9780747565895)
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06/2011
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Person
Sir Richard Eyre was the Artistic Director of The Royal National Theatre for ten years. He has directed numerous classic and new plays and films - most recently IRIS - and is the author of UTOPIA AND OTHER PLACES, and co-author of CHANGING STAGES and of IRIS: A SCREENPLAY.