Actors' Crucible
Subtitle: Port Talbot and the Making of Burton, Hopkins, Sheen and All the Others
Publisher: Parthian Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781910409947
Subjects: Actors, great britain; Great britain, intellectual life
Description: Port Talbot has an undisputed claim to be called the actors capital of Wales, producing a remarkable number of actors since the inter-war years including Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Sheen. This book suggests explanations for this phenomenon, while also surveying the careers of 50 actors from Port Talbot and considering what its most famous stars have put back into their community.