During the ten years from 1987 to 1997 that he was Director of the Royal National Theatre, Richard Eyre kept a diary - a record that disarmingly captured a life at the heart of British cultural and political affairs. The powerful and the famous inevitably strut and fret upon its pages, but National Service is also a moving personal journey, charted faithfully by a fiercely self-aware and frequently self-doubting individual. The job of grappling with a giant three-headed monster as complex as the Royal National Theatre is laid before us. So are good gossip, brilliant insights into personalities and relationships and a sense of the ridiculous, which Eyre is powerless to suppress. Like other consummate diarists such as Alan Clark and Kenneth Tynan, Richard Eyre has a voice and point of view that jolt the reader into fresh understanding - and are instantly compelling.
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- Year Published:
- 2004
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780747565901
- Number of Pages:
- 448
- Publication Date:
- 05/07/2004
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Authors:
- Eyre, Richard
- Publication Date:
- 05/07/2004
- Imprint:
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9780747565901