Selina Hastings

Stage Blood, by Michael Blakemore – review

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  • Stage Blood: Five Tempestuous Years in the Early Life of the National Theatre

    Michael Blakemore

    Faber, pp. 359

Stage Blood, as its title suggests, is as full of vitriol, back-stabbing and conspiracy as any Jacobean tragedy. In this sequel to Arguments with England, his superb first volume of memoirs, Michael Blakemore presents us with an enthralling account of his five embattled years as an associate director of the National Theatre.

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