Лучшие книги 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,…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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

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

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.

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…

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…