Stage Blood by Michael Blakemore " review by Simon Callow

Civil war at the National Theatre: a tale of righteous revenge, told in cold rageThis is a most unusual book. It is a theatrical memoir that is remorselessly honest: this in itself is enough to mark it out from pretty well every other such memoir in existence. The only comparable book in my experience is Watchman, What of the Night? by Jed Harris, in which the veteran American director dishes the dirt on virtual…

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