The Final Curtain: Obituaries of Fifty Great Actors

Michael Coveney has been writing theatrical obituaries alongside reviews for several decades and makes a telling, sometimes...
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Author: Michael Coveney
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The Final Curtain: Obituaries of Fifty Great Actors by Coveney, Michael

The Final Curtain: Obituaries of Fifty Great Actors

$101.93

The Final Curtain: Obituaries of Fifty Great Actors

$101.93
Author: Michael Coveney
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Michael Coveney has been writing theatrical obituaries alongside reviews for several decades and makes a telling, sometimes surprising, selection of the best performers of our time, from Laurence Olivier to Alan Rickman, Peggy Ashcroft to Helen McCrory, Richard Briers to Ken Dodd. Most of these obits appeared in the Guardian, several in the Observer, the Financial Times and the Evening Standard.

The fifty articles are arranged in chronological order of each actor's demise and constitute a vivid history of postwar theatre through the lives of the actors, 'the abstract and brief chronicles of the time' as Hamlet called them. There are happy/sad juxtapositions of shooting stars Robert Stephens and Alan Bates; tragic niece and aunt, Natasha Richardson and Lynn Redgrave; classical queens Diana Rigg and Barbara Jefford; and versatile showtime hoofers Una Stubbs and Lionel Blair.



Author: Michael Coveney
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
Published: 12/28/2023
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781911397625

About the Author
Michael Coveney was born in Whitechapel, London and educated at St Ignatius College, Stamford Hill, and Worcester College, Oxford. He has written about theatre as editor of Plays and Players magazine and was staff critic, successively, on the Financial Times, the Observer and the Daily Mail. His books include Master of the House: The Theatres of Cameron Mackintosh (Unicorn, 2022); The Citz; The Aisle is Full of Noises; Questors, Jesters and Renegades and critical biographies of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Mike Leigh, Ken Campbell and Maggie Smith.

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