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As if by Chance: Journeys, Theatres, Lives

As if by Chance: Journeys, Theatres, Lives


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David Lan evokes a unique theatre of life. Sometimes hilarious, always deeply felt we travel with him to Peter Brook's Paris, to Chekhov's Yalta, to Lithuania in search of his great grandparents, to Broadway for the Tony Awards. There's escaping the South African army, the Royal Court in the 90s, spirit mediums in Zimbabwe. And his years running the Young Vic, drawing in great artists such as Ivo Van Hove, Jude Law, Gillian Anderson, Stephen Daldry and shows such as Yerma, The Jungle and The Inheritance. 'Exceptional. Rich, warm and sparkling.' Peter Brook 'He is the Chagall of theatre, hurtling over his colourful life and the world, his shirt flying, dreaming on behalf of humanity.' Fiona Shaw 'Sincere, passionate, vulnerable, open, serious, loving. A great read for fans of theatre and of humanity.' Ivo Van Hove

About the Author :
David Lan was born in Cape Town. He has lived in London since 1972. His plays have been produced by the National Theatre, the Royal Court, the RSC and the Almeida. He has published an ethnography Guns and Rain: Guerrillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe. He was writer in residence at the Royal Court 1995 to 1997 and artistic director of the Young Vic 2000 to 2018. In 2018 he received the Laurence Olivier Special Award, the Critics' Circle Special Award and the RAI 'Anthropology in the World' award. He is Theatre Associate at BAM in New York.

Review :
Heartfelt, inspirational and evocative. -- Observer Delightfully quirky. . . indisputably a good read. -- British Theatre Guide Lan's writing glows with his humanity and skill, with his literal worldliness, as he patches together into one narrative all the many lives he has led . . . arranged in delightful disorder and written with the playwright's flair for dialogue. Memories are not narrated so much as displayed through reconstructed conversation, as if Ivy Compton-Burnett had written a memoir: everything is shown, nothing is told. Lan's ear for different modes of speech is brilliant. To read the book is to swim in someone else's memory, unsure what is real, and what has been damaged or retinted by the passage of time, and by the memoirist's ability to dramatise . . . Lan is linking memory with theatre, and theatre with life. -- Guardian A zigzagging meditation on the peculiar knottiness of theatre and the processes by which it is made ... Switching between dreamy impressionism and a fierce specificity, it's a searching account of a varied life. -- Times Literary Supplement


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780571357802
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Publisher Imprint: Faber & Faber
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Sub Title: Journeys, Theatres, Lives
  • Width: 129 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0571357806
  • Publisher Date: 03 Jun 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 268 gr


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