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The Actors' Crucible: Port Talbot and the Making of Burton, Hopkins, Sheen and All the Others
Angela V. John
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Description for The Actors' Crucible: Port Talbot and the Making of Burton, Hopkins, Sheen and All the Others
Hardcover. Port Talbot has an undisputed claim to be called the actors' capital of Wales, producing a remarkable number of actors since the inter-war years including Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Sheen. This book surveys the careers of 50 actors from Port Talbot and considers what its most famous stars have put back into their community. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKWS; APB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 396.
Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Sheen count amongst the world's most renowned and gifted actors. Yet they have something else in common: they all come from the south Wales steel town of Port Talbot. What is it about this industrial community that has produced such superstars? Angela V. John, who also hails from the town, explores the lives of these acting legends before they became famous. She presents their emergence as part of a rich culture and commitment to drama long embedded in the town's history. She reveals too a host of other famous Port Talbot faces, from ... Read more
Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Sheen count amongst the world's most renowned and gifted actors. Yet they have something else in common: they all come from the south Wales steel town of Port Talbot. What is it about this industrial community that has produced such superstars? Angela V. John, who also hails from the town, explores the lives of these acting legends before they became famous. She presents their emergence as part of a rich culture and commitment to drama long embedded in the town's history. She reveals too a host of other famous Port Talbot faces, from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910409947
SKU
V9781910409947
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About Angela V. John
Angela V. John is a widely published historian and biographer living in Pembrokeshire but originally from Port Talbot. She held the chair in History at the University of Greenwich, London for many years and is currently an honorary professor at Swansea University. Previous publications include the award-winning Coalmining Women (Cambridge University Press) and a biography of the Ibsenite actress, suffragette ... Read more
Reviews for The Actors' Crucible: Port Talbot and the Making of Burton, Hopkins, Sheen and All the Others
'This is a brilliantly insightful and much needed study by one of Wales' leading historians, using a range of sources including her own personal memories of Port Talbot and its stars'
Hywel Francis, historian 'This is an important work that deepens our sense of a changing Wales... nicely combining local with international and popular with scholarship'
Peter Stead, author of ... Read more
Hywel Francis, historian 'This is an important work that deepens our sense of a changing Wales... nicely combining local with international and popular with scholarship'
Peter Stead, author of ... Read more