Character Breakdown - Hardcover

Ashton, Zawe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784740799 ISBN 13: 9781784740795

Verlag: Chatto & Windus, 2019

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'A smart, funny and well-written take-down of modern showbiz' ELIZABETH DAY

Cult heroine Zawe Ashton brings us a unique look at life, work and the absurdities of contemporary life.

Zawe Ashton has been acting since she was six. She has played many different roles, from ‘cute little girl’ to ‘assassin with attitude', Oscar Wilde’s Salome to St Trinian’s schoolgirl by way of Fresh Meat’s Vod.

To stay sane, an actress must tread a high-wire between life and art, keep sight of where a character ends and the real person begins. So she doesn’t lose herself completely.

In Character Breakdown, Zawe scrolls through a version of her life. Or is it a version of her art? Or something in between. In it, she encounters glamour, horror, absurdity and questions like: is a life spent more on performance than reality any life at all?

‘Funny, revealing, shocking and inventively structured’ Booker prize winning author Bernardine Evaristo, Observer

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Zawe Ashton is an actress, playwright and director who started acting at the age of six. Her portrayal of Vod in Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong’s Fresh Meat won her a cult following and the diversity of her work across television, film and stage has attracted numerous accolades. Recent credits include the BBC/Netflix TV series Wanderlust, the Netflix feature film Velvet Buzzsaw and Betrayal at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Her play for all those women who thought they were Mad will be staged for the first time this year. She lives in London.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Chatto & Windus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1784740799
• ISBN 13: 9781784740795
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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