28 February 2013
Rupert Everett won this year’s Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography with his memoir, Vanished Years. “All of you are better writers than I am,” he told shortlisted contestants at the Garrick. “But you enjoyed my book. I can’t believe it.”
Simon Callow, author of Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World, was baffled by reports that some people think Dickens was writing before Shakespeare. “It’s like reading that India is an island off Africa.” So what about the discovery of Richard III, now thought to be a good man rather than a villain? “Shakespeare would have said it ruined a good story,” said Callow.
