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Everybody's Daughter, Nobody's Child
Jane knew she was a war baby because Mummy Grace said all war babies had to drink the treacly black malt from The Clinic every morning. Then Mummy Grace told Jane she wasn't her mummy. Her mummy was a lady who lived in Le Tookay. Or was it Cassablanka? An exceptional memoir, written by one of our most outstanding actresses, Everybody's Daughter, Nobody's Child is a vivid and moving chronicle of childhood.
Everybody's Daughter, Nobody's Child
This is a vivid and moving chronicle of childhood, written by one of our most outstanding actors, evoking the England of the 50s and the confusions of growing up illegitimate.
Time Out of Mind
Who are you when your brain is not you?Jane Lapotaire is one of the lucky ones. Many people do not survive, let alone live intelligently and well again, once they have suffered cerebral haemorrhage. In the long haul back to life - 'nearly dying was the easy bit'- there were some hard lessons to be learned. A few friendships became casualties; family relationships had to be redefined; and her work as an actress took a severe battering. The stress of just ordinary living is felt that much more keenly when 'sometimes I still feel as if I am walking around with my brain outside my body. A brain still all too available to be smashed by noise, uprooted by travel and spectacularly ready to respond in kind to any form of harshness.' But she has survived and now believes it herself when people say how lucky she is.Moving, darkly funny, honest, this is about what happens when the 'you' you've known all your life is no longer quite the same.
Piaf
From the streets of Paris to worldwide fame Edith Gassion (known to all as 'Piaf', the sparrow) continues to be remembered and revered for her exceptional voice and extraordinary, troubled life. In this new version of Piaf, Pam Gems has reworked her classic 1978 play, vividly capturing the glamour and squalor, the rise and fall of this complex, fragile and enigmatic performer.
Out of Order
Actress Jane Lapotaire is a single parent, cat lover, feminist, and lapsed Methodist with an interest in Buddhism. This opinionated memoir covers topics from collapse from overwork to anxiety about the back garden, and London traffic to the theater's attitude to "women of a certain age."
In the Company of Actors
In the Company of Actors is a wonderful ensemble of entertaining and illuminating discussions with sixteen of the most celebrated and prestigious actors in contemporary theatre, film and television. The impressive list of actors includes: Eileen Atkins, Alan Bates, Simon Callow, Judi Dench, Brenda Fricker, Nigel Hawthorne, Jane Lapotaire, Janet McTeer, Ian Richardson, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Anthony Sher, Janet Suzman, David Suchet, and Penelope Wilton. Carole Zucker covers a wide range of topics including the actors' main childhood influences, their actor training, early acting experience, preparation for roles and sound advice for coping with actors' problems such as creative differences with other actors or directors.
Grace and Favour
The author was brought up in England by Mummy Grace but spent her holidays with her real mother, Madame Lapotaire, in Libya. This is the vivid and moving chronicle of the childhood of this outstanding actress. She evokes the England of the nineteen fifties and the confusions of growing up illegitimate.
Playing Shakespeare
Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. The director begins by explicating Shakespeare’s verse and prose, speeches and soliloquies, and naturalistic and heightened language to discover the essence of his characters. In the second section, Barton and the actors explore nuance in Shakespearean theater, from evoking irony and ambiguity and striking the delicate balance of passion and profound intellectual thought, to finding new approaches to playing Shakespeare’s most controversial creation, Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice. A practical and essential guide, Playing Shakespeare will stand for years as the authoritative favorite among actors, scholars, teachers, and students.
Macbeth
In this expanded analysis of Macbeth in performance, Bernice W. Kliman examines a number of major productions of the play on stage and screen, inviting the reader to contemplate and compare directors' and actors' choices for what is arguably Shakespeare's most compelling play. Kliman's in-depth analysis of Orson Welles's 1948 film version as well as his earlier stage production, Roman Polanski's famous film, and several different television versions from America and Britain offers an invaluable guide to the most prominent performances across a range of media. She also considers Yukio Ninagawa's staging, which provides an exciting and novel Japanese perspective on the play for Western audiences.
A Taste for Death
Now a major Channel 5 series 'The Queen of Crime.' New York Times Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, thier throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently-resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set up to investigate crimes of particular sensitivity, are faced with a case of extraordinary complexity as they discover the Berowne family's veneer of prosperous gentility conceals ugly and dangerous secrets. 'Compulsive . . . heart-pounding suspense.' Sunday Times 'Splendidly suspenseful . . . A triumph and a treat.' Guardian
