The theatre director John Dexter was also an outspoken correspondent, a candid diarist and kept detailed production notebooks. From this material, O'Hara, Dexter's lifetime companion, reveals encounters with theatre and opera stars and behind-the-scenes conflicts at the National and the Met. Dexter directed such classics as "Equus", "Galileo", "Pygmalion", "Madame Butterfly" and "The Threepenny Opera".
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The theatre director John Dexter was also an outspoken correspondent, a candid diarist and kept detailed production notebooks. From this material, O'Hara, Dexter's lifetime companion, reveals encounters with theatre and opera stars and behind-the-scenes conflicts at the National and the Met. Dexter directed such classics as "Equus", "Galileo", "Pygmalion", "Madame Butterfly" and "The Threepenny Opera".
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Very good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp.340including 16 b/w photographs. ISBN: 1854590391 Signed presentation copy to 'John. ' 'The Honourable Beast' was a favourite nickname given to the acclaimed theatre director John Dexter. On his death in 1990, he had begun writing a book; had an archive of production notebooks; and candid diaries of his career in the USA and Europe. Material from these sources have been complied to create this posthumous autobiography: " a series of unique insights into George Devine's Royal Court, Olivier's National Theatre, and the New York Met., as well as. the commercial jungles of Broadway and the West End." Fine in near fine dust jacket. Very slight creasing to dust jacket edges.
