Books written by Jonathan Croall
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Performing King Lear: Gielgud to Russell Beale
Its greatest pleasure comes from Mr Plummer's taking you step by step through Lear's enormous changes in temperament and insight, and justifying every turn on both an intellectual and gut level. I have never seen an audience so ...
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John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star
In this wellmade, sensitive film, impeccably acted by Gregory Peck and Christopher Plummer, and filmed in the Museum of Campidoglio in Rome, he played a severe, unrelenting Pope Pius XII, refusing to speak out against the extermination ...
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Neill of Summerhill (Routledge Revivals): The Permanent Rebel
Hesketh Pearson, Bernard Shaw,Collins, 1942. Hesketh Pearson, GBS:APostscript, Collins, 1951. Robin Pedley,The ComprehensiveSchool,Penguin, 3rd edn, 1978. Raymond Postgate, TheLife ofGeorge Lansbury, Longman, 1951.
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The Coming of Godot: A Short History of a Masterpiece
... Michael 32 Howard, Alan 117 Howarth, Donald 74, 75 Hunter, NC 31 Hurley, Majella 95 Hyman, Earle 78 I Ingram, Rex 78.
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Preserve Or Destroy: Tourism and the Environment
This text gives an account of how tourism has ruined precious landscapes, polluted coast and countryside, and destroyed the distinctive cultures of many communities.
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Don't You Know There's a War On?: The People's Voice 1939-45
The recollections of this book, first published in 1989, attempt to answer such questions by evoking the reality of life on the home front during the war years.
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Performing Hamlet: Actors in the Modern Age
The volume also includes an updated text of the author's earlier book Hamlet Observed, and an account of actors' experiences of performing at Elsinore.
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Gielgoodies!: The Wit and Wisdom (& Gaffes) of John Gielgud
Full of startling new material, drawn from many unpublished letters and Jonathan Croall's extensive interviews, the book also celebrates the man who dropped a thousand bricks.
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Buzz Buzz! Playwrights, Actors and Directors at the National Theatre
Containing over a hundred interviews conducted over the last fifteen years with leading directors, actors and writers at the National Theatre, Buzz Buzz! is a fantastic compendium that offers unrivalled insight into the work and practice of ...
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Forgotten Stars: My Father and the British Silent Film World
He explores the pioneering work of such directors as Hitchcock, Elvey, Asquith and Saville, and describes the impact, often tragic, of the coming of sound on the careers of the stars.
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Sybil Thorndike: A Star Of Life
Outside the theatrical profession Sybil Thorndike is no longer the household name she once was; she has become a historical figure.
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Peter Hall's Bacchai: The National Theatre at Work
Jonathan Croall observed the rehearsal process in minute detail, talking in detail with all those involved as the production moved from read-through to preview.
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Closely Observed Theatre
Closely Observed Theatre
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Don't You Know There's a War On?: Voices from the Home Front
Here is a personal portrait of a nation at war, with contemporary photographs, diaries, letters, poems, and other memorabilia belonging to the men and women whose wartime lives are featured.
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Don't You Know There's a War On
Don't You Know There's a War On
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Beyond the Clouds: A Small Town in China
Beyond the Clouds: A Small Town in China
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Peter Hall's Bacchai: The National Theatre at Work
Peter Hall's Bacchai: The National Theatre at Work
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In Search of Gielgud: A Biographer's Tale
The book also charts the many problems the author had to overcome to prevent the biography from being abandoned, notably a sustained attack by a rival biographer, the wayward behaviour of an elusive editor, and the unpredictable attitude to ...
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The Parents' Day School Book
The Parents' Day School Book
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Helping to Heal: The Arts in Health Care
Charts the growth of the arts for health movement in the UK during the 1980s and 90s.