Orson Welles The Road to Xanadu (Audible Audio Edition) Simon Callow HarperCollins Publishers Limited Books
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Insightful, incisive and enlightening, the first volume of Simon Callow's comprehensive biography of Orson Welles.
Now in abridged audio, Callow's vastly entertaining chronicle of Welles's first 26 years seems even finer than it did in 1995. The author's ability to skewer his subject's evasions and lies while retaining critical affection for him is perhaps explained by the fact that Callow, an actor himself, understands the need to mythologise. Welles's innovative theatrical work in the 1930s has never been better described or analysed.
Orson Welles The Road to Xanadu (Audible Audio Edition) Simon Callow HarperCollins Publishers Limited Books
This is a fantastic, very detailed and rather objective biography of the boy genius of the theatre world. 600 pages about Welles for only the first 26 years of his life is a lot, but definitly worth all the details.The author basically tells Orson's early life around the plays he directed and that were his life at the time. It is amazing to me how a 14 year old kid was able to succesfully direct Shakespeare plays and even write a book on how to understand Shakerpeare's work.
The book gives great details on every single play he directed, radio shows he produced, the making of citizen Kane and on a broader scale gives a great insight on what broadway was like during the 30s. The account of the war of the world radio broadcast that terrorised the northern US on halloween night 1938 will make you relive the moment as if you were there.
I highly recommend this biography to any fan of Orson Welles or anyone who is interested in the history of broadway or the theatre in general.
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Orson Welles The Road to Xanadu (Audible Audio Edition) Simon Callow HarperCollins Publishers Limited Books Reviews
I just started reading this book. It's so very lovely & smart. He's quite impressive.
I've read several bio's of Welles. All were pretty good but Callows approach is unique and contained a lot of new information on the boy wonder. I'm looking forward to volumes 2 & 3
Thanks.
Unfortunately, for the casual reader who just wants a biographical account of Welles' life and work, this book does not fill that need. It gets bogged down for pages upon pages of minutiae that might be of some importance to someone within the 'theatre world' but it's too detailed and too incomprehensible to anyone who doesn't have the literary background to appreciate it. I found myself skipping whole chapters only to get bogged down in the next. Finally I put it down and instead decided to try out Frank Brady's Citizen Welles A Biography of Orson Welles, a much more freely flowing text without any extrapolations.
I won't delve into other facets that bothered me about this book because that would be unfair as I wasn't able to finish it. Suffice to say that it's not one I would recommend to anyone that has just discovered Orson Welles and his works. Other than the book I mentioned, there a numerous other books, videos etc. that may offer a better introductory overview of his life and work.
What a life, what a genius. Can't imagine a more authoritative bio of Welles.
Orson Welles did more before he was 10 than most of us will in a lifetime.........or at least he tells you he did. The mystery of OW is still in full effect but Simon Callow helps the reader wade through the mire and stories that seem like BS. It's a damn fine read. Makes you want to see VOODOO MACBETH for yourself. Luckily there's enough internet resources to listen to some of the Mercury Radio Broadcasts as well ( more than just War Of The Worlds ).
well done
This is a fantastic, very detailed and rather objective biography of the boy genius of the theatre world. 600 pages about Welles for only the first 26 years of his life is a lot, but definitly worth all the details.
The author basically tells Orson's early life around the plays he directed and that were his life at the time. It is amazing to me how a 14 year old kid was able to succesfully direct Shakespeare plays and even write a book on how to understand Shakerpeare's work.
The book gives great details on every single play he directed, radio shows he produced, the making of citizen Kane and on a broader scale gives a great insight on what broadway was like during the 30s. The account of the war of the world radio broadcast that terrorised the northern US on halloween night 1938 will make you relive the moment as if you were there.
I highly recommend this biography to any fan of Orson Welles or anyone who is interested in the history of broadway or the theatre in general.
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