One Thing and Another: Selected Writings 1954-2016

by Jonathan Miller, Ian Greaves (Editor)

A fully-authorized, comprehensive collection that guides the reader through Miller’s revue writing in the 1950s and 1960s to his emergence as a public intellectual and enfant terrible of the international opera circuit from the mid-70s to the present day. This book contains previously lost and undiscovered material, with extensive meditations on the arts, philosophy, medicine, technology, opera, Shakespeare, and the philosophy of science.

200 pages, Paperback

Published October 3, 2017

About the author

Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE was a British theatre and opera director, author, television presenter, humorist and sculptor. Trained as a physician in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the 1960s with his role in the comedy review Beyond the Fringe with fellow writers and performers Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. Despite having seen few operas and not knowing how to read music, he began stage-directing them in the 1970s and became one of the world's leading opera directors with several classic productions to his credit. His best-known production is probably his 1982 "Mafia"-styled Rigoletto set in 1950s Little Italy, Manhattan. He was also a well-known television personality and familiar public intellectual in the UK and US.

Reviews

[Becky Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastic and thorough anthology of a life curiously lived.

[Jeff · Rating 3 out of 5]

I skimmed this book and read all the entries having to do with theatre. Fascinating insights into KING LEAR. I got bogged down in the opera sections and the mental health portions. Honestly, he left me in the rearview mirror a few times as I did not follow where he was going but that's okay because I picked it up for the theatrical insights.