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Containing over a hundred interviews conducted over the last fifteenyears with leading directors, actors and writers at the NationalTheatre, Buzz Buzz! is a fantastic compendium that offers unrivalled insight into the work and practice of the best theatre talent. In these illuminating interviews playwrights such as Michael Frayn,Kwame Kwei-Armah, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, David Hare, Pam Gems and TonyKushner and many others talk about the roots of their work, theirmethods of research, and how they collaborate with their directors,while actors from Fiona Shaw to Kenneth Branagh, and directors fromPeter Hall to Marianne Elliott, contribute fascinating insights intotheir ideas and ways of working. The book covers plays by the Greeksand Shakespeare, English and European classics, and the best of modernEnglish, Irish and American drama. Theatre writer and commentator Jonathan Croall draws on the vastwealth of interviews he''s conducted at the National Theatre in thisfascinating and wide-ranging book.
About the author
Jonathan Croall is a distinguished biographer and theatre historian. He is the author of over twenty-five books, notably the acclaimed biographies John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama) and Sybil Thorndike: A Star of Life. His other titles include The Coming of Godot: A Short History of a Masterpiece (short-listed for the 2005 Theatre Book Prize); The Wit and Wisdom (and Gaffes) of John Gielgud and In Search of Gielgud: A Biographer’s Tale; two collections of his theatre journalism, Buzz Buzz! Playwrights, Actors and Directors at the National Theatre and Closely Observed Theatre: From the National to the Old Vic; and three books in the series The National Theatre at Work – Hamlet Observed, Peter Hall’s ‘Bacchai’, and Inside the Molly House.
