Stages: A Memoir by Reg Livermore

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition.Ex library copy with no external stickers. Remnant of date due slip on inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Interior and binding are still very good.

Now on the eve of his eightieth birthday, one of Australia's most acclaimed stage actors looks back on some of the relationships, triumphs and tragedies that have defined both the person and performer he has become.

Reg revolutionised the Australian theatre industry in a pair of high heels in the original Rocky Horror Show production; he has sung with Julie Andrews, watched the curtain call from backstage at the Covent Garden opera, and starred in Wicked and The Producers. But he's lived a whole and fascinating life bigger than any stage.

He grew up in conservative 1950s Sydney, when boys who danced or acted were 'not like other boys'. He's had a restaurant and a relationship with a volatile French chef in rural New South Wales, experienced an epiphany on an Italian mountainside, and felt the unrivalled heartbreak of watching a parent decline.

Beautifully told with a gently wicked sense of humour, this thoughtful and poignant memoir depicts a life lived under lights, and something else altogether: a universal life.