Back Stages

Elation, exhaustion, panic, despair, triumph, all spring from the pages of Back Stages with a gameywhiff of actualité. For anyone with an interest in theatre history this book offers a unique snapshotinto the attitudes and processes of 1960s and 1970s show-business.Starting with an epic seven-month cruise around the Pacific with his own company, the author takesus on a vivid and exhilarating ride through rehearsals and performances of five engagements in the company of such stars as Stanley Baxter, Danny La Rue, Brian Rix and Tom Conti. Back Stages is arecord of what happened, when it happened and how it happened, related not through a fancifulmist of nostalgia but taken down in the white heat of immediacy.