A Body of Work

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This working journal straddles the end of the 20th century and shows how to turn a dream into a reality. It takes in my humble beginnings on the dole back in Nowheresville in the '80's looking for a direction and how I fell into writing theatre plays, directing and performance poetry and (eventually) getting into drama school in London and ten years after that trying to reconcile what I felt was expected of me with what my heart truly wanted to do. The last third of the book is the result of that struggle.

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Publication Date: Apr 2, 2024
Language: English
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Copyright: All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors: By (author): Antony J Stowers

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British Theatre Acting Directing Playwriting Auditioning Stowers Self-help

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About Antony J Stowers

I was born in a modest working class home in a small post-industrial railway town in north east England called Darlington in 1963 and left school with almost no qualifications a month before Margaret Thatcher came into office as PM in 1979. As a 'writer' I've had no formal training. When I was 18 I decided this was what I was going to do: write, act and create. I dedicated myself to this re-education for the next few years and returned to mainstream education and got myself qualifications relevant to my goals (drama school, A Levels, O Levels) and crowned it with a teaching degree from Nantes University in France (where I have lived since 2006). From 1985-1988 l studied as an actor at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and lived in London and also travelled internationally for a further 8 years. From 1996-2006 I ran two professional theatre arts companies in north east England employing many actors. I now have 33 good theatre plays spread over 5 volumes and 20 books, one in French. My entire life from birth to very recent times has been recorded in books, plays and poems, in one way or another. It takes a kind of psychological courage to lead the life I lead. Nobody is forcing me to do it. I'm not obliged to live it this way. I voluntarily test my mettle in the public arena in order to achieve new understanding of myself and the world I live in. We pass this way but once - to neglect our talents while we are here is criminal.

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