Let's Do It

Jasper Rees

ISBN 10: 1409184099 / ISBN 13: 9781409184096

Edité par Trapeze, 2020

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With a career that incorporated stand-up, songs and sitcoms that focused on ordinary people and their lives, Victoria Wood became one of the UK's most popular entertainers. Through more than 200 interviews with her family and friends, and access to the audio diary she kept, Jasper Rees traces her life from a childhood marked by shyness to becoming a pioneer of comedy whose subject matter resonated deeply with her audiences.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Let's Do It
• Éditeur: Trapeze
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1409184099
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781409184096
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Written with the help of her family and closest friends - including Julie Walters, Dawn French, Celia Imrie and many others - this is the definitive authorised biography of one of Britain's most talented and loved entertainers: Victoria Wood.

À propos de l?auteur

Victoria Wood was a writer, actor, director, singer, composer and stand-up comedian. She first appeared on national television in 1974 on the talent show New Faces, and her debut stage play Talent was televised in 1979. In the 1980s her sketch show Wood and Walters was followed by the pioneering Victoria Wood As Seen on TV, which won four BAFTAs. As a stand-up performer she won two more BAFTAs for An Audience with Victoria Wood and, in the course of several national tours, sold out the Royal Albert Hall forty times. The 1990s brought more acclaim with the TV film Pat and Margaret and the canteen sitcom dinnerladies. In the following decade her much loved soap parody Acorn Antiques became a West End musical, while the wartime drama Housewife, 49 won two more BAFTAs. She filmed her stage musical That Day We Sang for television in 2014. Given an OBE in 1997, she was appointed a CBE in 2008. Since her death in 2016 at the age of 62, her work has continued to pulse through the British bloodstream.

Jasper Rees is an arts journalist and author who has written for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and theartsdesk.com, which he co-founded. Previous books include I Found My Horn and Bred of Heaven, both of which were abridged for Radio 4's Book of the Week, and most recently a biography of Florence Foster Jenkins.