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Richardson, Helen

Helen Richardson writes fiction and poetry, and is a producer of documentary films and commercials. Her first novel, Waking, was published in 2017.

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All the World’s a Stage

Helen Richardson on Simon Callow, Being an Actor

When I was a child, people of a certain age who met my father often remarked, ‘You look just like Simon Callow.’ I had no idea who Simon Callow was, so my father bought me his autobiography, Being an Actor (1986). Over the years it has become my battered treasure, all creased corners and cracked spine, highlighted and annotated, lent to friends and quickly sought back. Callow takes us into a singular world where the emotions and anxieties of ordinary life are exposed, examined and amplified. He offers insight into what it is to be an actor and, I would say, what it is to be human.

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