Overview

Backstage Confidential lifts the curtain on West End Theatre from a viewpoint rarely heard: the wings. Beginning his career at seventeen, Eden Phillips rose to become London’s youngest head flyman before veering into acting, writing and publishing — yet always remained an observer of the theatre’s hidden world. With warmth and wit, he evokes backstage work in the 1960s and ’70s: rigging sets, working the flys, operating revolves and tackling the countless unseen tasks that keep a show running. Along the way he encounters an array of theatrical greats, from Sir Noël Coward, Sir John Gielgud and Dame Judi Dench to directors Hal Prince and Harold Pinter. A lively, humorous and affectionate insider’s glimpse into a golden age of British theatre.

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“Curtain up! For anyone who loves theatre, Backstage Confidential is a complete joy.” -- Gyles Brandreth “Eden Phillips is as fine a writer as he is in so many other areas of theatrical action, whether on centre stage or in the wings. Or in the best-sellers as this book deserves to be.” -- Tim Rice

“Curtain up! For anyone who loves theatre, Backstage Confidential is a complete joy.” -- Gyles Brandreth “Eden Phillips is as fine a writer as he is in so many other areas of theatrical action, whether on centre stage or in the wings. Or in the bestsellers as this book deserves to be.” -- Tim Rice

Author Information

Eden Phillips began working as a stagehand in the 1960s. Since then, he has been an actor, theatre producer, writer, publisher, lyricist and company owner. He has a degree in Drama from the University of Manchester and lives in London, where he is a lifelong supporter of Chelsea FC.

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