The Final Curtain

Obituaries of Fifty Great Actors

Michael Coveney, Sam Mendes, Mia Breuer

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English

Unicorn Publishing Group
15 September 2023

Other performing arts; Biography; Biography: general

Michael Coveney has been writing theatrical obituaries alongside reviews for several decades and makes a telling, sometimes surprising, selection of the best performers of our time, from Laurence Olivier to Alan Rickman, Peggy Ashcroft to Helen McCrory, Richard Briers to Ken Dodd. Most of these obits appeared in the Guardian, several in the Observer, the Financial Times and the Evening Standard.

The fifty articles are arranged in chronological order of each actor’s demise and constitute a vivid history of postwar theatre through the lives of the actors, ‘the abstract and brief chronicles of the time’ as Hamlet called them. There are happy/sad juxtapositions of shooting stars Robert Stephens and Alan Bates; tragic niece and aunt, Natasha Richardson and Lynn Redgrave; classical queens Diana Rigg and Barbara Jefford; and versatile showtime hoofers Una Stubbs and Lionel Blair.

By: Michael Coveney
Illustrated by: Mia Breuer
Foreword by: Sam Mendes
Imprint: Unicorn Publishing Group
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781911397625
ISBN 10: 1911397621
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Coveney was born in Whitechapel, London and educated at St Ignatius College, Stamford Hill, and Worcester College, Oxford. He has written about theatre as editor of Plays and Players magazine and was staff critic, successively, on the Financial Times, the Observer and the Daily Mail. His books include Master of the House: The Theatres of Cameron Mackintosh (Unicorn, 2022); The Citz; The Aisle is Full of Noises; Questors, Jesters and Renegades and critical biographies of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Mike Leigh, Ken Campbell and Maggie Smith.