Новинки Саймона Кэллоу

Талантливый драматург, романист, эссеист и поэт Оскар Уайльд был блестящим собеседником, о чем свидетельствовали многие его современники, и обладал неподражаемым чувством юмора, которое не изменило ему даже в самый тяжелый период жизни, когда он оказался в тюрьме. Мерлин Холланд, внук и биограф Уайльда, воссоздает стиль общения своего гениального деда так убедительно, как если бы побеседовал с ним на самом деле.
С предисловием актера, режиссера и писателя Саймона Кэллоу, командора ордена Британской империи.
«Жизнь Оскара Уайльда имеет все признаки фейерверка: сначала возбужденное ожидание, затем эффектное шоу, потом оглушительный взрыв, падение – и тишина. Каким-то необъяснимым образом он предвидел это в своей сказке о замечательной ракете, которая поднялась как бы ниоткуда в снопе искр, взорвалась, упала на землю и потухла, воскликнув: "Я знала, что произведу сенсацию"». (Мерлин Холланд)

An entertaining biography of Dickens by one of our finest actorsAcclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language.From his early years as a child entertainer in Portsmouth to his reluctant retirement from ‘these garish lights’ just before his death, Dickens was obsessed with the stage. Not only was he a dazzling mimic who wrote, acted in and stage-managed plays, all with fanatical perfectionism; as a writer he was a compulsive performer, whose very imagination was theatrical, both in terms of plot devices and construction of character.Like many actors, Dickens felt the need to be completed by contact with his audience. He was the original ‘celebrity’ author, who attracted thousands of adoring fans to his readings in Britain and across the Atlantic, in which he gave voice to his unforgettable cast of characters.In Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World, Callow brings his own unique insight to a life driven by performance and showmanship. He reveals an exuberant and irrepressible talent, whose ‘inimitable’ wit and personality crackle off the page.

The third volume of Simon Callow’s acclaimed Orson Welles biography, covering the period of his exile from America (1947–1964), when he produced some of his greatest works, including Touch of Evil

In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic and all-inclusive four-volume survey of Orson Welles’s life and work, the celebrated British actor Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex, contradictory artists of the twentieth century, whose glorious triumphs (and occasional spectacular failures) in film, radio, theater, and television introduced a radical and original approach that opened up new directions in the arts.

This volume begins with Welles’s self-exile from America, and his realization that he could function only to his own satisfaction as an independent film maker, a one-man band, in fact, which committed him to a perpetual cycle of money raising. By 1964, he had filmed Othello, which took three years to complete; Mr. Arkadin, the most puzzling film in his output; and a masterpiece in another genre, Touch of Evil, which marked his one return to Hollywood, and like all too many of his films was wrested from his grasp and reedited. Along the way he made inroads into the fledgling medium of television and a number of stage plays, of which his 1955 London Moby-Dick is considered by theater historians to be one of the seminal productions of the century. His private life was as spectacularly complex and dramatic as his professional life. The book reveals what it was like to be around Welles, and, with an intricacy and precision rarely attempted before, what it was like to be him, answering the riddle that has long fascinated film scholars and lovers alike: Whatever happened to Orson Welles?

Author Stephen Leacock shares the stage with Charles Dickens and Mark Twain as one of the best-loved humorists in the English-speaking world, and at the time of its original publication in 1933, Leacock's biography of Charles Dickens was widely and enthusiastically hailed as a vital, grand, and masterful examination of the man and his writing.This biography was the first to explore the humor as well as the morality of Dickens's novels and is filled with sharp commentary.

In this highly entertaining biography, actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a joyous celebration of the greatest storyteller in the English language.
Callow's unique understanding of the theatrical influences on Dickens reveals an exuberant and irrepressible talent, whose 'inimitable' wit and personality crackle off the page.
With astonishing empathy between author and subject, Dickens springs to life before our eyes.

"This is the book we have long been waiting for... It really deepens our understanding and enjoyment of Dickens" Michael Slater

Simon Callow writes with perceptiveness, wit and flair about the remarkable people he has encountered in the course of his career. My Life in Pieces coincides with his latest stage venture, a one-man show called Shakespeare: The Man from Stratford, written by the well-known Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate.

Талантливый драматург, романист, эссеист и поэт Оскар Уайльд был блестящим собеседником, о чем свидетельствовали многие его современники, и обладал неподражаемым чувством юмора, которое не изменило ему даже в самый тяжелый период жизни, когда он оказался в тюрьме. Мерлин Холланд, внук и биограф Уайльда, воссоздает стиль общения своего гениального деда так убедительно, как если бы побеседовал с ним на самом деле.
С предисловием актера, режиссера и писателя Саймона Кэллоу, командора ордена Британской империи. «Жизнь Оскара Уайльда имеет все признаки фейерверка: сначала возбужденное ожидание, затем эффектное шоу, потом оглушительный взрыв, падение – и тишина. Каким-то необъяснимым образом он предвидел это в своей сказке о замечательной ракете, которая поднялась как бы ниоткуда в снопе искр, взорвалась, упала на землю и потухла, воскликнув: “Я знала, что произведу сенсацию”». (Мерлин Холланд)
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From Citizen Kane to Macbeth, Simon Callow's brilliant biography of Orson Welles explores the breakdown of his Hollywood career.
When Citizen Kane, his first film, opened in 1941, Welles was universally acclaimed as the most audacious filmmaker alive. But instead of marking the beginning of a triumphant career in Hollywood, the film proved to be an exception in Welles's life and work. He found it increasingly impossible to function within Hollywood's system. Project after project foundered, either abandoned incomplete, or was released in very different form from the one he intended. Finally, in 1947, he left America for Europe where for the best part of twenty years he lived in self-imposed exile, occasionally and briefly returning to stage a play, make a film or shoot a television drama.
Hello Americans reveals the immense complexities of Welles's temperament as well as some of the monstrous personalities with whom he had to contend. At the same time, the book gives full weight to the almost bewildering range of his activities beyond Hollywood. The thread that runs through this apparently incoherent blur of activity is an often-frustrated engagement with his native land, its faults, its arts, its history. But by 1947, he had said all that he had to say to his fellow citizens; it was Goodbye Americans for two decades of experimental, innovative but essentially European work.

A selection of Shakespeare's work focusing on the theme of love. From the passion of the sonnets, the poignant balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet to the bewitched love scene between Titania and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, this anthology cuts across age and class, taboo and prohibition.

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The enduring popularity and success of Shakespeare is an international and cross-cultural phenomenon. The aim of the "Actors on Shakespeare" series is to provide an accessible, contemporary commentary to each of the plays via the top-class actors who have performed them. Here, Simon Callow, best-selling author and acclaimed stage and screen actor, immerses himself in "Henry IV" once more, now concentrating on "Part II" with an afterword on the death of Falstaff. Together with his previous book in this series, Callow provides an in-depth study of the art of the play and the craft of the actor.

Book Description When Simon Callow met the Yugoslav film director Dusan Makavejev to discuss his new film Manifesto , they both greatly looked forward to working together. Only months later the two were barely speaking. A companion

Book Description A new edition of the classic book for actors starting their careers, with new material Few actors have ever been more eloquent, more honest, or more entertaining about their life and their profession than Simon

Талантливый драматург, романист, эссеист и поэт Оскар Уайльд был блестящим собеседником, о чем свидетельствовали многие его современники, и обладал неподражаемым чувством юмора, которое не изменило ему даже в самый тяжелый период жизни, когда он оказался в тюрьме. Мерлин Холланд, внук и биограф Уайльда, воссоздает стиль общения своего гениального деда так убедительно, как если бы побеседовал с ним на самом деле.
С предисловием актера, режиссера и писателя Саймона Кэллоу, командора ордена Британской империи.
«Жизнь Оскара Уайльда имеет все признаки фейерверка: сначала возбужденное ожидание, затем эффектное шоу, потом оглушительный взрыв, падение – и тишина. Каким-то необъяснимым образом он предвидел это в своей сказке о замечательной ракете, которая поднялась как бы ниоткуда в снопе искр, взорвалась, упала на землю и потухла, воскликнув: “Я знала, что произведу сенсацию”». (Мерлин Холланд)
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Merlin Holland, text, 2007, 2019
Simon Callow, foreword, 2007, 2019
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In this first installment of his masterful biography, Simon Callow captures the chameleonic genius of Orson Welles as only an actor/director deeply rooted in the entertainment industry could. Here is Welles’s prodigious childhood; his youth in New York, with its fraught partnership with John Houseman and the groundbreaking triumph of his all-black Macbeth; the pioneering radio work that culminated in the notorious 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds; and finally, his work in Hollywood, including an authoritative account of the making of Citizen Kane. Rich in detail and insight, this is far and away the definitive look at Orson Welles—a figure even more extraordinary than the myths that have surrounded him.

A portrait of the English-born actor who performed in films and stage roles and set the standards for several major roles, but who faced both professional struggles and personal turmoil and never recognized his own legendary status.

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.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-worship.As a man, he was a walking contradiction, aggressive, flirtatious, disciplined, capricious, heroic, visionary and poisonously anti-Semitic. At one point, he had four lengthy operas written with no hope of being performed when, as if in a fairy-tale, he was rescued by a beautiful young king with limitless wealth which he bestowed on the composer. When one of those works, Tristan and Isolde, was at last performed, it revolutionised classical music at a stroke. Finally he fulfilled his lifelong dream of creating a vast epic to rival the work of the great Greek playwrights, a music drama in four massive segments, ushering gods and dwarves, heroes and thugs, dragons and rainbows onto the stage, the apotheosis of German art as he saw it, so extreme in its demands that he had to train a generation of singers and players to perform it, and erect a custom-built theatre to house it. Wagner died, exhausted, after creating one final piece – Parsifal – that seems to point to an even more radical new future for music.Simon Callow recalls the intellectual and artistic climate in which Wagner worked, recording the almost superhuman effort required to create his work, and evoking the extraordinary effect he had on people – this composer like no other who ever lived, extreme in everything, creator of the most sublime and most troubling body of work ever known.