An Actor Adrift by Yoshi Oida; Lorna Marshall - 1992-06

London: Methuen, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xii, 308. Stories about the theatre from John Mortimer, Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, Ian McEwan, and others.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.8vo,308pp.17 short stories. In this volume MORLEY has drawn together some of the finest short stories which tell of life in the theatre.An international selection,the volume includes stories from US, Britain, France, Ireland and Japan.The result is a rich mosaic portraying the theatre in some of its wildest and most endearing manifestations.Charles Dickens writes hilariously of an amateur production of Othello beset by an over-enthusiastic member of the audience;Colette reveals the hand-to- mouth hardship of a Parisian ballerina.Yukio Mishima explores the restrained passions rocking a Kabuki company;Ian McEwan recounts with caustic humour the problems of mis-spent passion at a strip show audition;and there are many more drawn from a range by writers diverse as Beryl Bainbridge, Agatha Christie, Noel Coward, Jane Gardam, W.S.Maugham, John Mortimer and Edna O'Brien.… Read More