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To mark the National Theatre's 50th anniversary, Edward Petherbridge has produced a special edition of his autobiography, Slim Chances, focusing on his long association with the NT and introducing previously unpublished material and photographs. Petherbridge began his six-year tenure with Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company in 1964, walking on in Olivier's Othello. Three years later he created the iconic role of Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Among his parts for the National on the South Bank have been Faulkland in The Rivals; Gaev in The Cherry Orchad; The Cardinal in The Duchess of Malfi; Alceste in The Misanthorpe; Dr. Dorn in The Seagull; and Coupler in The Relapse. With Ian McKellen in the 1980's he established the NT's McKellen-Petherbridge Group. Also included, for the first time, is the story behind My Perfect Mind, which premiered in the spring of 2013 to great critical acclaim. The show, created by Petherbridge, paul Hunter and Kathryn Hunter, fuses two main plots into one unique entity: the story of Shakespeare's King Lear and that of the stroke which prevented Petherbridge, on the eve of his 71st birthday, from playing the role of a lifetime. And it features an unforgettable cameo by 'Laurence Olivier'. No ordinary memoir, Slim Chances is an invaluable theatre book, with unique insights into the mechanics of the actor's craft, and a moving exposition of the very heart of its mystery. In it, Petherbridge's talents as an essayist, poet, raconteur, and artist come gloriously to the fore.

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