Public Faces, Private Places: intimate portraits of theatre’s stars

Leading actors, directors and playwrights are the subject of a new book that whisks aside the safety curtain to reveal some of the 20th century's most famous theatrical stars
  
  


Public faces: Steven Berkoff on a London building site, 1960
Steven Berkoff on a London building site, 1960 Photograph: Sandra Lousada/PR
Public faces: Diane Cilento in rehearsal of Pirandello's Naked, 1961
Diane Cilento in rehearsal of Pirandello's Naked, directed by David Williams, at the Royal Court theatre, 1961 Photograph: Sandra Lousada/PR
Public faces: Mary Ure and Robert Shaw at the Royal Court theatre in 1961
Mary Ure and Robert Shaw in Thomas Middleton's The Changeling, directed by Tony Richardson, at the Royal Court in 1961 Photograph: Sandra Lousada/PR
Public faces: Joan Littlewood Theatre Royal Stratford
Joan Littlewood during a rehearsal at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, in 1962 Photograph: Sandra Lousada/Guardian
Public faces: Graham Crowden and Alec Guiness in Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King, 1963
Graham Crowden and Alec Guinness in Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King, directed by George Devine at the Royal Court theatre, 1963 Photograph: Sandra Lousada/PR
Public faces: Christopher Gable in his dressing room, 1963
Christopher Gable in his dressing room, 1963 Photograph: Sandra Lousada/PR
Public faces: George Devine and Peggy Ashcroft in Chekov's The Seagull, 1964
George Devine and Peggy Ashcroft in a dress rehearsal for Chekov's The Seagull, directed by Tony Richardson, at the Queen's theatre in 1964 Photograph: Sandra Lousada/PR
Public faces: Laurence Olivier with his children Richard and Tamsin
Laurence Olivier with his children Richard and Tamsin in Brighton, 1966 Photograph: Sandra Lousard/PR
Public faces: Vanessa Redgrave on location for The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Vanessa Redgrave on location for a film, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, in 1962 Photograph: Sandra Lousada/PR
Public faces: Playwright Jocelyn Herbert and Peggy Ashcroft in Peggy's flat, 1988
Playwright Jocelyn Herbert and actor Peggy Ashcroft (wearing the mask she originally wore in Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan at the Royal Court in 1956) in Ashcroft's flat, 1988 Photograph: Sandra Lousada/PR
 

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