Books by Mary Luckhurst

This is the first book to explore how actors play real people. Is it possible to embody a genius like Mozart, Woolf or Darwin? Bringing together original conversations with award-winning actors, the line-up includes Jeremy Irons, Dame Eileen Atkins, David Morrissey, Henry Goodman, and Sir Ian McKellen.

Theatre has always been a site for selling outrage and sensation, a place where public reputations are made and destroyed in spectacular ways. These exciting essays explore aspects of fame, notoriety and transgression in a wide range of performers and playwrights including David Garrick, Oscar Wilde, Ellen Terry, Laurence Olivier and Sarah Kane.