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A memoir from the writer of BENT with a foreword by Ian McKellenSherman takes us on a...
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A memoir from the writer of BENT with a foreword by Ian McKellen
Sherman takes us on a journey through America in the mid twentieth century, starting in New Jersey - where he was born in the 1930s to a Jewish immigrant family - ending on Broadway with the premier of his seminal play Bent starring Richard Gere. On route, we encounter other famous performers including Meryl Streep, Bee Gees, Joan Baez, but the scene-stealing character is always his father - a charismatic narcissist who might have given Trump a run for his money. We stop off in Woodstock, Los Angeles and London - a city Martin would eventually make home; he relays his story with self-deprecating humour as he struggles to make it in theatre, with his sexuality, and under the shadow of the inheritable disease that killed his mother tragically early - a disease from which he finds himself finally free, as he turns forty in the book's closing pages.
Author: Martin Sherman
Publisher: Inkandescent
Published: 09/25/2025
Pages: 278
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9781912620357
About the Author
Sherman, Martin: - Martin Sherman was born in Philadelphia, raised in New Jersey and educated at Boston University. He has lived in London for over forty years. His plays have been produced in over sixty countries and include Passing By, Cracks, Rio Grande, Bent, Messiah, When She Danced, A Mad House in Goa, Some Sunny Day, Rose, Onassis and Gently Down the Stream. His stage adaptations include E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, and he wrote the Broadway musical The Boy from Oz. Martin's screenplays include The Clothes in the Wardrobe, Alive and Kicking, Bent, Callas Forever, The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone and Mrs Henderson Presents. He has been nominated for two Tonys, two BAFTAS and two Oliviers.
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