Graft by Steven Berkoff

Graft by Steven Berkoff

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A collection of autobiographical short stories that chart the author's journey from youthful enthusiasm and success to raging despair, anger and final self-destruction.

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Graft by Steven Berkoff

Harry is a dedicated actor, often out of work, rejected and desperate for opportunities to practice his art. Brief moments of success only serve to increase his thirst for fulfillment. In these moving, sometimes harrowing short stories Steven Berkoff, tears the skin off the acting profession to reveal the raw, bleeding reality of the actors everyday life.
'Berkoff: Brutal, compassionate, brilliantExamines the actor's soul with a precision that is acutely painful and appallingly funny.' Richard E. Grant 'Steven Berkoff is different. His Tales of an Actor speak with a bracing honesty of experience in the theatre with which all actors are familiar, but which few havedared to articulate. He is a pioneer. His views are both caustic and invigorating - I hope they will be read by anyone interested in the theatre and in the work of actors.' Paul Scofield 'Steven Berkoff's funny and touching Tales of an Actor strikes one with all the terrors and stupidity and hilarity with which we combat our ill-chosen, foolish way of life.' Alec McCowen
Widely known as an actor, director and playwright, Steven Berkoff is one of the leading British exponents of modern theatre, with a taste for stark contrasts and disturbing juxtapositions. His original and outrageous play 'East' combined Shakespearean grandeur and cockney rhyming slang to riotous effect. Adaptations including Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' and 'The Trial', Oscar Wilde's 'Salome' and further stage plays such as 'Greek' and 'Kvetch', performed throughout the world, have earned him a international following.
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ISBN 13 9781840020380
ISBN 10 1840020385
Title Graft
Author Steven Berkoff
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 1999-05-01
Number of pages 158
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