An Actor Convalescing in Devon
Published on 18. April 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
48 pages
978-0-571-39155-4 (ISBN)
Description
He told me about some bloke who was sick and then got well - by placing a poem by William Blake in his shirt pocket . . .
Heading for the West Country by train, an actor takes the scenic route from Waterloo to spend a weekend with an old friend. He recalls staying there one summer with his late partner Michael, another actor. Glad to be alive but uncertain of his future, he shares stories and his thoughts about Shakespeare, friends, his career and the trials of his own health.
Richard Nelson's funny and compelling monologue opened at Hampstead Theatre, London, in March 2024.
Heading for the West Country by train, an actor takes the scenic route from Waterloo to spend a weekend with an old friend. He recalls staying there one summer with his late partner Michael, another actor. Glad to be alive but uncertain of his future, he shares stories and his thoughts about Shakespeare, friends, his career and the trials of his own health.
Richard Nelson's funny and compelling monologue opened at Hampstead Theatre, London, in March 2024.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 192 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
50 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-39155-4 (9780571391554)
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Richard Nelson has received numerous awards both in America and abroad, including a Tony Award (Best Book of a Musical for James Joyce's The Dead), and Oliver Award (Best Play for Goodnight Children Everywhere), Tony nominations (Best Play for Two Shakespearean Actors; Best Score as co-lyricist for James Joyce's The Dead), an Olivier nomination (Best Comedy for Some Americans Abroad), two Obies, a Lortel Award, a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lila Wallace-Readers' Digest Writers Award. He is the recipient of the PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He lives in upstate New York.