The Worst It Can Be Is A Disaster : the Life Story of Braham Murray and the Royal Exchange Theatre.
The Worst It Can Be is a Disaster is the autobiography of Braham Murray, founding director of the Royal Exchange Mancheste r which in 2006 celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. With a foreword by Sir Tom Courtenay. Born into a Jewish family, Braham Murray struggled against his parents' expectat...
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Bloomsbury Publishing,
2014.
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| Series: | Biography and Autobiography.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Derek Destiny; 2 The (Un)Happiest Days of Your Life; 3 The Best School of All; 4 Chutzpah; 5 A Lunatic at Oxford; 6 Hang Down Your Head and Die; 7 'You're Such a Talented Young Man'; 8 New York; 9 A Thing with Music; 10 Three Strikes and You're Out; 11 Century Theatre; 12 A 'Secret'; 13 Artistic Director; 14 The First Link; 15 How the Group Came into Being; 16 First Meetings at Last; 17 'I Am a Jew'; 18 Accepted; 19 The Last Century; 20 The New Group; 21 Filling in Time; 22 Edinburgh and Nuptials 1968; 23 She Stoops to Conquer: The Tug of War Starts.
- 24 Armund Hohningstadt25 The First Two Musicals; 26 The Beginning of a Long Run; 27 The Last Show at the University Theatre; 28 Higgledy-piggledy; 29 The Tent; 30 The Conception and Pregnancy of the Royal Exchange; 31 Not Such Good Companions; 32 The Black Mikado; 33 Two Lives; 34 1976
- Setting Things Up; 35 The Theatre's Opening; 36 Success; 37 Fire Engine; 38 Leaping Back; 39 Between Two Worlds; 40 The Group Evolves; 41 Enter Robert Lindsay; 42 Behind the Iron Curtain; 43 The Three Musketeers; 44 On Stage Again; 45 International Success; 46 Another Surprise; 47 Staying in the Group.
- 48 A Strange Year49 The Last Chance Saloon and Finally a Proper Director; 50 Andy Capp; 51 The Child Grows Up a Bit; 52 At Last
- And Big Changes; 53 Enter David Threlfall; 54 The Tenth Anniversary Season; 55 The Scottish Play; 56 1989-90; 57 All Change; 58 Rough Weather; 59 Coup de Foudre; 60 Meanwhile; 61 The Count; 62 Crisis Again; 63 Back in New York; 64 Back to England; 65 It Depends What You Call Better; 66 The Royal Exchange, Mark II; 67 Resurrections; 68 Au Revoir; 69 The Reopening; 70 First Year Back; 71 First Ibsen; 72 Houston; 73 Catching Up; 74 Absolutely Bats.
- 75 New Work, More Tensions76 Upheavals; 77 Twenty-fifth Anniversary; 78 A Last Upheaval (So Far); 79 Appraisal; 80 More Brad; 81 The Home Team Play; 82 Coming Together; 83 The Serpent of Old Nile; 84 Uncle Max; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.