Me and Orson Welles
By: Robert Kaplow
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780099540199
Subjects: Teenage boys; Theater; Production and direction; Actors; Conduct of life; Fiction
Description: Richard is a 17-year-old kid from New Jersey with the gift of the gab and an eye for the ladies. He's bored with school and dreams of making it big in the dazzling world of 1930s Manhattan. This is the story of one week in Richard's life, when he miraculously gets a part in a history-making production of Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' at the Mercury Theatre. It's the week he falls in love, and falls out of love again; it's the week he changes his middle name - twice. It's also the week he meets the colossally talented, fearsomely charming, soon-to-be-superstar Orson Welles. After this week, Richard's life will never be the same again ...
Notes: Originally published: San Francisco, Calif.: MacAdam/Cage, 2003 ; London: Vintage, 2008.