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My Life in Pieces
Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography. A sideways autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre.
London's Great Theatres
Peek behind the curtains of London's iconic theatres with acclaimed actor Simon Callow as your personal guide. This richly illustrated exploration of the most remarkable London theatres features witty and engaging texts by actor Simon Callow, whose knowledge of the city's dramatic venues is intimate and wide-ranging. One of the most prominent photographers of the past 50 years, Derry Moore, captures the theatres from every angle, whether it's a velvet box seat at the Novello, the view from the Theatre Royal, Haymarket's proscenium, or the grand entrance of the foyer in the Apollo Victoria. Exquisite close-ups of architectural elements--such as flamboyant Rococo Baroque friezes, William Edward Trent's Art Deco mermaids, painted marble pilasters, and elaborately framed mirrors--highlight often unnoticed features and present each theatre's unique character. From the West End to the South Bank, Westminster to Hackney, the theatres profiled here come to life in ways we rarely see, when the seats are empty and the stages silent.
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World
An entertaining biography of Dickens by one of our finest actors
Being an Actor
Simon Callow traces his life as a stage actor, from the letter he wrote to Laurence Olivier that led him to his first job, to his triumph as Mozart in the original production of 'Amadeus'.
Orson Welles
A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre, to the making of Citizen Kane. Vivid, vastly entertaining, this is the definitive Welles biography.
Orson Welles
In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the twentieth century, looking closely at the triumphs and failures of an ambitious one-man assault on one medium after another theatre, radio, film, television, even, at one point, ballet in each of which his radical and original approach opened up new directions and hitherto unglimpsed possibilities. The book begins with Welles self-exile from America, and his realisation that he could only function happily as an independent film-maker, a one-man band; by 1964, he had filmed Othello, which took three ye...
Being Wagner
Simon Callow plunges headlong into Wagner's world to discover what it was like to be Wagner, and to be around one of music's most influential figures.The perfect introduction to the Master. A hundred and thirty-five years after his death, Richard Wagner's music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. They have never been more popular, nor so violently controversial and divisive. His music is still banned in Israel - the only classical composer whose music is banned in the western world. His ten great mature masterpieces constitute an unmatched body of work, created against a backdrop of poverty, revolution, violent controversy, critical contempt and hysterical hero-wors...
Dickens' Christmas
The publication of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" coincided with aecade which saw the invention of the Christmas cracker, the first Christmasard and Prince Albert's promotion of the Norwegian Christmas tree. In thisolume Simon Callow presents a celebration of the traditional Dickensianhristmas: decorating the house with greenery and lighted candles; hangingissing boughs and holly wreaths to welcome friends and family; carol-singing here reflected in words and music; accounts of waistcoat-popping Christmasinners alongside recipes; and not forgetting Christmas as a time ofenerosity to those less fortunate. The volume also contains the text of "Ahristmas Carol" in its entirety.
Shakespeare on Love
From the desperate passion of the sonnets to the delightful bewitched love scene in "a Midsummer Night's Dream, " this anthology cuts across age and class, taboo and prohibition, to focus on Shakespeare's themes of love.
Shooting the Actor
A companion volume to Being an Actor, Callow's classic text about the experience of acting in the theatre, Shooting the Actor reveals the truth about film acting. The book describes his film work, from Amadeus to Four Weddings and a Funeral, from Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls to Shakespeare in Love. Its centrepiece is a hilarious and sometimes agonising account of the making of Manifesto, shot in the former Yugoslavia. When Callow first met the film's director DuĊĦan Makavejev to discuss the movie, they both got on famously. Months later the two were barely speaking. Insightful and always entertaining, Shooting the Actor reveals more than any formal guide could about the process of film-making and the highly complex nature of being both actor and director.
