CHANGING STAGES: A VIEW OF THE BRITISH AND AMERICAN THEATRE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.(Review)

by Richard Eyre and Nicholas Wright, Knopf, New York. 400 pages, $40 cloth.

THIS BOOK IS BY TWO INSIDERS IN THE British theatre, Richard Eyre, longtime director of London's Royal National Theatre, and Nicholas Wright, associate director at the National, as well as an actor and playwright (Mrs. Klein). Written to accompany a BBC-TV series that made its way to PBS in August, it's a kind of British version of Siskel & Ebert, with Eyre and Wright sipping tea while dishing dirt on the major plays and playwrights of our era. They are bitchily well-informed about the English ...

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