Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu
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Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu
Narrated by:
Simon Callow
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Narrated by:
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Simon Callow
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By:
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Simon Callow
About this listen
Insightful, incisive & enlightening, the first volume of Simon Callow's comprehensive biography of Orson Welles.
Now in abridged audio, Callow's vastly entertaining chronicle of Welles's first 26 years seems even finer than it did in 1995. The author's ability to skewer his subject's evasions and lies while retaining critical affection for him is perhaps explained by the fact that Callow, an actor himself, understands the need to mythologise. Welles's innovative theatrical work in the 1930s has never been better described or analysed.
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Callow brings this detailed book to life
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Simon Callow is a wonderful raconteur, and one worthy of the greatest, Welles himself. He draws you in, even if you know the facts, and I was never bored as he makes them sound as though you’ve never heard them before. I could listen to him all day.
If you have any interest in Welles, or in early theatre, radio or film, this is worth listening to. Callow doesn’t make him out to be perfect, on the contrary, he happily displays Welles’s shortcomings, his bluster, his self-aggrandising claims, his fallings-out with others (particularly John Houseman), and his inability to turn his creative abilities into profit at the box office.
This is an all around excellent listen, only spoilt by its abridged nature. Come on, Audible, abridgement is not what we expect you to do!
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