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Off Stage: 100 Portaits Celebrating the Rada Centenary
A who’s who of British acting of both stage and screen. RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), the United Kingdom’s world-famous drama school, celebrates its centenary. One hundred actors tell of their formative experience at the Academy, and each has a specially commissioned portrait. Includes Anthony Hopkins, Richard Attenborough, Joan Collins, Kenneth Branagh, and Tom Courtenay.
159 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2006
About the author
Miranda Sawyer
14 books12 followersMiranda Sawyer is an English journalist and broadcaster. She has a degree in Jurisprudence at Pembroke College, Oxford. She moved to London in 1988 to begin her career as a journalist on the magazine Smash Hits.
In 1993, she became the youngest winner of the Periodical Publishers Association Magazine Writer of the Year award for her work on Select magazine. She formerly wrote columns for Time Out (1993–96) and The Mirror (2000-3), and was a frequent contributor to Mixmag and The Face during the 1990s. She is now a feature writer for The Observer and its radio critic. Her writing appears in GQ, Vogue and The Guardian and she is a regular arts critic in print, on television and on radio. She was a member of the judging panel for the 2007 Turner Prize and the panel that awarded Liverpool its Capital of Culture status.
In 2004, Sawyer wrote, researched and presented an hour-long documentary for Channel 4 about the age of consent entitled, Sex Before 16: How the Law Is Failing. In 2006, she made a highly personal documentary for More 4 on abortion rights in the US, A Matter of Life and Death, as part of its Travels With My Camera strand.
Her first book Park and Ride, a travel book on the Great British suburbs, was published by Little, Brown in 1999.
She is also an occasional guest on the UK arts programme Newsnight Review on BBC2, The Culture Show (BBC 2) and also BBC Radio 2's Radcliffe and Maconie Show.
In 1993, she became the youngest winner of the Periodical Publishers Association Magazine Writer of the Year award for her work on Select magazine. She formerly wrote columns for Time Out (1993–96) and The Mirror (2000-3), and was a frequent contributor to Mixmag and The Face during the 1990s. She is now a feature writer for The Observer and its radio critic. Her writing appears in GQ, Vogue and The Guardian and she is a regular arts critic in print, on television and on radio. She was a member of the judging panel for the 2007 Turner Prize and the panel that awarded Liverpool its Capital of Culture status.
In 2004, Sawyer wrote, researched and presented an hour-long documentary for Channel 4 about the age of consent entitled, Sex Before 16: How the Law Is Failing. In 2006, she made a highly personal documentary for More 4 on abortion rights in the US, A Matter of Life and Death, as part of its Travels With My Camera strand.
Her first book Park and Ride, a travel book on the Great British suburbs, was published by Little, Brown in 1999.
She is also an occasional guest on the UK arts programme Newsnight Review on BBC2, The Culture Show (BBC 2) and also BBC Radio 2's Radcliffe and Maconie Show.
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February 3, 2016
The text consisted of the actors reflecting on their days at RADA. I thought it might get too repetitive, but it didn't. I wish I knew why the author put the subjects in the order he did. A table of contents or index with names would've been helpful.
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