My Life in Pieces by Simon Callow

Author:Simon Callow [Simon Callow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780010120
Publisher: Nick Hern
Published: 2012-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

The last and most completely unpredictable result of publishing my anti-directorial jeremiad (as it was now perceived), Being an Actor, was an invitation to direct an opera, Così Fan Tutte, in Luzern. I had already directed in the theatre: it started more or less by accident in 1983 when my old friend Snoo Wilson (whose play The Soul of the White Ant I had acted in at the Bush, as described elsewhere) lost the director for his latest play, Loving Reno, also at the Bush. He suggested that he might direct it himself, but for some reason this made them nervous, so I proposed that we co-direct it, which we did, with very happy results (we were nominated by the Sunday Times critic James Fenton as the Best New Directors of the Year). As it happens, it was virtually the end of Snoo’s career as a director, and the beginning of mine. It was apparent that he had no appetite for the multiple roles that a director has to perform – sergeant major, psychoanalyst, perfect audience, problem-solver, team leader, cheerleader, seminar-leader, leader – and he gradually sat back in the trance-like state adopted by most writers in rehearsals (half reliving the writing of it, half longing for it to be the way they imagined it would be, impatient of and bewildered by its present transitional stage), while I got on with it. It was the beginning of a long working relationship between us, which I described in an article in the Sunday Telegraph on the occasion of the first night of my production of Snoo’s play HRH in the summer of 1997.

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