Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. PART ONE — Chance or Providence?
  7.   1    The Brown God
  8.   2    The Clatter of Clogs
  9.   3    Unfinished Business
  10.   4    The Mafia
  11.   5    Undeclared but Hidden Passion
  12.   6    Encounter with a Giant
  13.   7    We Can’t Match Him
  14.   8    Jeunesse Dorée in Dour Edinburgh
  15.   9    Travels with My Peers
  16. 10    Wolfitting down Hamlet
  17. 11    Actors Seize Power!
  18. 12    One Step Forward, Two Back – or One Back, Two Forward?
  19. 13    The Matching of Equals
  20. PART TWO — Atrocities and Absurdities
  21. 14    Enter Ganymede
  22. 15    Validation
  23. 16    The Robot Factory
  24. 17    Body and Soul
  25. 18    The Other Strong Yearning
  26. 19    Pay-off Performance
  27. 20    Not So Much in the Cupboard but in the Safe
  28. 21    Self-Awakening to Spirit
  29. 22    Who Was Olivier’s True Heir?
  30. 23    Underneath All the Tolerance
  31. 24    Shining a Light through Celluloid
  32. 25    New Labour Interlude
  33. 26    Hollywood God Hubris
  34. PART THREE — Casting Final Spells
  35. 27    Your Double Goes Before You
  36. 28    A Footfall of Memory Interlude
  37. 29    Saturnalia Time
  38. 30    Tergiversator
  39. 31    Double Standards
  40. 32    Interlude: The McKellen Banterland
  41. 33    It’s a Mad, Mad World, My Masters
  42. 34    Small Men Locked in a Big Space
  43. 35    What Do We Do Now We’re Happy? Vicious Old Queens
  44. 36    Corporate Caretaking
  45. 37    Gandalf Doesn’t Do Weddings – Neither Does Lear
  46. 38    Finale
  47.      Photographs
  48.      Acknowledgements
  49.      Index
  50.      Also by Garry O’Connor
  51.      About the Author
  52.      Copyright