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Arguments with England (Hardcover)

by Michael Blakemore (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber; illustrated edition edition (16 Sep 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571224458
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571224456
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 742,169 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Anyone who has read Michael Blakemore's classic novel Next Season knows he is one of the best writers we have about how life on-stage may feed into life off. His beautiful new memoir,Arguments with England, is perhaps better still - a pitch-perfect account of dreaming youth, driven, frustrated and eventually deepened by a realistic love of the theatre.' David Hare

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In the days when Australians called England 'home', Michael Blakemore, an eager young man en route to RADA, made the long sea voyage to 1950s London to find himself in a distinctly foreign country ...And so began his struggle to come to terms with the realities of a less than perfect Promised Land. Candid observations about life and art, from his shock on witnessing the poverty in the North to his sense of excitement on reading the works of Proust and Webster, sit beside colourful escapades at drama school and recollections of working with characters such as John Osborne and Tyrone Guthrie. Rescued from the horrors of weekly rep by an exhilarating tour behind the Iron Curtain in Peter Brook's Titus Andronicus with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, Blakemore recalls life as an actor before his directorial success with A Day in the Death of Joe Egg propelled him to the National Theatre and the start of a glittering career.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Michael Blakemore: Following His Own Line, 30 Oct 2004
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Michael Blakemore's "Arguments with England" is a luminous and inspired account of an extraordinary life in the theater. Mr. Blakemore has worked with the greats, from Olivier and Vivien Leigh to Peter Brook and Charles Laughton, and tells of these experiences with the hindisght of a master looking back to his apprenticeship days. It is a story of cultural assimilation and creative escape, of finding roots ultimately in the transience and grace of the stage. But what makes this book singular is its earnestnes and the feeling that its author has preserved the sense of wonder and reverence which are the heart of theater. The book reads partly like a picaresque novel, partly like other incisive, soulful memoirs (at times one is reminded of Kazan's "A Life"), and partly like a Proustian landscape, that takes the reader through miles of detail and arrives at moments of deep insight that strike with the force of revelation. What I loved about this book was that it is not simply about the hapless struggles of the actor and the obstacles that beset one along the way (though it tells that story as well as any), but that it is about how one tries to continually sustain one's faith in the face of opposition, and develop both the craft and the humanity to serve the higher aims of theatre.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Michael Blakemore: Following His Own Line, 31 Oct 2004
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Michael Blakemore's "Arguments with England" is a luminous and inspired account of an extraordinary life in the theater. Mr. Blakemore has worked with the greats, from Olivier and Vivien Leigh to Peter Brook and Charles Laughton, and tells of these experiences with the hindisight of a master looking back to his apprenticeship days. It is a story of cultural assimilation and creative escape, of finding roots ultimately in the transience and grace of the stage. But what makes this book singular is its earnestnes and the feeling that its author has preserved the sense of wonder and reverence which are the heart of theater. The book reads partly like a picaresque novel, partly like other incisive, soulful memoirs (at times one is reminded of Kazan's "A Life"), and partly like a Proustian landscape, that takes the reader through miles of detail and arrives at moments of deep insight that strike with the force of revelation. What I loved about this book was that it is not simply about the hapless struggles of the actor and the obstacles that beset one along the way (though it tells that story as well as any), but that it is about how one tries to continually sustain one's faith in the face of opposition, and develop both the craft and the humanity to serve the higher aims of theatre.
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