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Simon Callow: One Man Band

The Theatre – Lighthouse, Poole
Tuesday 22 March at 7.30pm
Tickets £15
Discounts: Students, U18s, Seniors, Groups, ATL

Tickets & information 01202 280000 
www.lighthousepoole.co.uk

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Actor and writer Simon Callow will be discussing One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles’ life and work when he visits Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts on 22 March.

Callow probes in detail into one of the most complex artists of the twentieth century, looking closely at the triumphs and failures of an ambitious one-man assault on one medium after another – theatre, radio, film, television – even, at one point, ballet – in each of which his radical and original approach opened up new directions and hitherto unglimpsed possibilities.

Says Callow: “I love touring plays, but every bit as much as that, I love talking about my books in cities and towns across the country. I’ve found that people are fantastically warm and keenly interested: as in the theatre, each talk is entirely different as people react differently to the – though I say it myself – remarkable story I’m telling.  Since childhood, I’ve been addicted to biography: I’m fascinated by my fellow human beings and long to know what makes them what they are. Orson Welles was one of the most completely, improbably, extravagant human beings who ever lived. I’ve tried to make the reader feel as if they’d met him. On the reading tour I can convey that even more vividly, and look forward to sharing what I know about Welles with people across the country this Spring.”

A Q&A will follow the talk.

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