{"product_id":"9781848423398-my-first-play","title":"My First Play","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn Anthology of Theatrical Beginnings. \u003cp\u003eA unique collection of pieces by playwrights, actors and theatre directors - candid, hilarious, and often sharply revealing.\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy First Play\u003c\/em\u003e is a unique collection of pieces by playwrights, actors and theatre directors – all of them regular Nick Hern Books authors – in response to the simplest of briefs: write about your first play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCandid, hilarious, and often sharply revealing, the resulting pieces – many of them written in the hurly-burly of work on a new production – combine to prove the power of theatre to entrance us, and hold us captive in its spell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncluded here are remarkable first-person accounts from many of our leading playwrights: Caryl Churchill performing \u003cem\u003eCinderella\u003c\/em\u003e to her parents with a cast of dolls and stuffed animals; Howard Brenton pinching his first main character from a boy's comic; Jack Thorne having to become a thief to get his first play on; Conor McPherson still waiting to write his 'first play'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are also enthralling insights into the first steps in theatre of some of our principal actors and theatre directors: Antony Sher discovering theatre in Cape Town during the apartheid years; Dominic Cooke paying the price for using a real knife in performance; Harriet Walter's photographic recall of the annual outing to \u003cem\u003ePeter Pan\u003c\/em\u003e; Richard Eyre on an open-air performance of \u003cem\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/em\u003e that descends into chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished to celebrate twenty-five years of Nick Hern Books, the royalties from the sale of this magical collection of sixty-six miniature autobiographies will be donated to the Theatre Section of the Writers' Guild.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41660141994081,"sku":"9781848423398","price":10.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_26947861.jpg?v=1721379262","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781848423398-my-first-play","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}