{"product_id":"pre-order-michael-gambon-the-authorised-biography","title":"Pre-order Michael Gambon: The Authorised Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eJasper Rees, the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLet’s Do It: The Authorised Biography\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof Victoria Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, interviewed Gambon more than any other journalist alive, and has been granted exclusive access to Gambon’s personal archive and effects. Rees is in the process of conducting over one hundred interviews with actors, playwrights and directors who across a career that spanned more than half a century were witness to some of Gambon’s most magnificent performances, including Penelope Wilton, Alan Ayckbourn, Brian Cox, Eileen Atkins, David Hare, Judi Dench, Christopher Hampton, Simon Russell Beale, Richard Eyre, Patricia Hodge, Simon Callow, Stephen Poliakoff and his closest friend in theatre, Oliver Cotton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe biography spans Gambon’s epoch-defining roles on stage, television and screen: the early years as a spear-carrier in Laurence Olivier’s newly formed National Theatre, his pre-eminence as an interpreter of Harold Pinter and Alan Ayckbourn, the triumphs in \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Galileo\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA View from the Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e, the screen roles that won him global fame, from Philip Marlow in \u003ci\u003eThe Singing Detective\u003c\/i\u003e to Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films. It promises to be a deeply personal, moving and surprising book that will enrich our understanding of an acting legend who was as hilarious and elusive off stage – renowned for spinning mischievously tall tales – as he was mesmerising and chameleon-like on stage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"National Theatre Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55672005394808,"sku":"9781529963335","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0257\/9562\/5032\/files\/MichaelGambonBiographyNationalTheatreShop.jpg?v=1790003090","url":"https:\/\/shop.nationaltheatre.org.uk\/products\/pre-order-michael-gambon-the-authorised-biography","provider":"National Theatre Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}