Ian Kelly

Mr Foote's Other Leg (NHB Modern Plays) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Georgian London no one is more famous than Samuel Foote. Satirist, impressionist and dangerous comedian, friend of David Garrick and Dr Johnson, he is a bona fide celebrity in an age obsessed with fame. He even has the ear of the King.

But when Foote finds himself at the centre of a media storm - and under the surgeon's knife - there's only one question on everyone's lips: does fame make you mad?

Based on Ian Kelly's award-winning biography, Mr Foote's Other Leg is a riotously funny play exploring our obsession with celebrities, through the true story of the Oscar Wilde of the eighteenth century. It premiered at Hampstead Theatre in September 2015, in a production directed by Richard Eyre and featuring Simon Russell Beale as Foote.

'Written with panache and wit - as lively and entertaining a historical biography as you are ever likely to read' Sunday Times on Ian Kelly's biography of Samuel Foote

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nick Hern Books
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780016603
• Artikelnr.: 43840452

Autorenporträt

Ian Kelly's previous works include the historical biographies Casanova (Sunday Times Biography of the Year, 2008), Mr Foote's Other Leg; Comedy, Tragedy and Murder in Georgian London (Winner, Theatre Book of the Year, 2013), Beau Brummell (shortlisted for the Marsh Commonwealth Biography Prize), Cooking for Kings, A Life of Antonin Carême (Radio 4 Book of the Week), and the life of Vivienne Westwood, cowritten with Dame Vivienne. As a dramatist, Ian's stage adaptation of the Carême biography Cooking for Kings ran Off-Broadway in 2004 and 2006. Beau Brummell was adapted as a BBC film with Simon Bent and starring Hugh Bonneville and James Purefoy. Ian has written for The New York Times, Sunday Times, Telegraph, TLS, Men's Health, Gastronomica and Food Arts Magazine, of which he is Contributing Editor. He wrote and originated the Film Education study series Shakespeare Cinema.

As an actor, film work includes Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I and Part II as Hermione's father, Howards End, Creation, In Love and War, Closed and the Russian films Admiral Kolchak and Alexei Balabanov's War (Best Actor Nomination, Montreal Film Festival).

Theatre work includes The Pitmen Painters (National Theatre, Broadway, West End and Newcastle Live; Performance of the Year, NE Culture Awards), A Busy Day (West End, Bristol Old Vic), Arcadia (Manchester), Cooking for Kings and Beau Brummell (US premieres, Off-Broadway), Henry V and Twelfth Night with the English Shakespeare Company and seasons with, amongst others, Theatr Clwyd and Salisbury Playhouse.

Television work includes Downton Abbey, Sensitive Skin, In a Land of Plenty, Cold Lazarus, Silent Witness, Drop the Dead Donkey, Time Trumpet, Catherine Cookson's The Moth, Just William, Underworld.

Ian grew up on Merseyside, in the States and near Bristol. He read History at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and won a scholarship to UCLA's Film School from which he holds an MA in Theatre, Film, Television. He lives in Suffolk and London.