I'm pleased to have caught up with this 1960's novel, which got a passing nod in the review for Blakemore's autobiography: Stage Blood (bwl 70). It gives an excellent feel of life in a theatre company at work in a seaside town, and the joys and disappointments of being an actor, while telling an absorbing story. Interesting on the plays and you can have fun guessing identities as well - Vanessa Redgrave? Peter Hall? Olivier?
(Tony Pratt - bwl 71 Winter 2014 ) |
