From the rehearsals to performances to the teardown, we see William in the show and learning in life. At the same time, he's drinking too much, fearful of losing his kids and stumbling from one damaging sexual encounter to the next. Before his marriage publicly exploded, he’d signed on to play Hotspur in a lavish production of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV.

Hawke spends a lot of time delving into the scenes of the protagonist on stage and the rest of the time ruminating over his broken marriage and how to handle his two children. We don't often have the chance to get 'inside the mind' of a celebrity, and its far different from what we assume. The one movie star amid a cast of celebrated stage actors, William is intimidated by the legitimate talent around him and determined not to stick out as dopey eye-candy for Broadway tourists. THE SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE “Hawke ha seguido la máxima escribe de lo que conoces, trayendo el mundo del teatro a la vida, desde el primer ensayo al estreno final”. Such a wise and uncompromising study of our interconnectedness in blood, sweat, and tears in the struggle to be our own person.In questo senso il romanzo autobiografico di Ethan Hawke è anche un percorso di formazione perché non si smette mai di crescere e di imparare dai propri fallimenti. A four-time Academy Award nominee, twice for writing and twice for acting, ETHAN HAWKE has starred in the films Dead Poets Society, Reality Bites, Gattaca and Training Day, as well as Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise trilogy and Boyhood. Perennials PERENNIALS constant friends A selection of novels, memoirs and more by some of our favourite authors.

He left school and appeared in A Midnight Clear, Alive, Reality Bites, Before Sunrise, Gattaca, The Newton Boys, Great Expectations, and many other movies. Dip Into NEW PAPERBACKS [jsb_filter_by_tags count="15" show_more="10" sort_by="total_products"/] A selection of recent paperbacks. See our Remarkables Archive list for what is no longer in print, but which we are happy to track down. A four-time Academy Award nominee, twice for writing and twice for acting, ETHAN HAWKE has starred in the films Dead Poets Society, Reality Bites, Gattaca, and Training Day, as well as Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise trilogy and Boyhood.There's definitely some male fantasy stuff happening re: the women in this book and there are problems to pick at this -- but also, the relationship particularly between William and the woman playing Lady Percy speaks to a depth of understanding about showmances that people outside of the theater can't ever really comprehend.

I'm not sure what it was exactly, because the thought of reading a book about an actor starring in his first broadway play, doing Shakespeare of all things, while in the midst of a third-life crisis, didn't sound super up my alley. Es gibt Bücher, selten aber es gibt diese, wo man sich denkt, dass es als Hörspiel, Fernsehserie oder Film besser rüberkommen würde. It reminded me of Alec Baldwin’s furious rant in the film version of Mamet’s play Glengarry Glen Ross. This book is astounding in its ability to capture the visceral realities of being onstage and performing, particularly Shakespeare.

A great little novel about an actor’s personal life falling to pieces while he prepares to star in a Broadway rendition of Shakespeare’s Henry IV.