The Economist (US), May 8th, 1993
UTOPIA AND OTHER PLACES. By Richard Eyre. Blooomsbury; 206 pages; Pounds16.99 and $24 ONE of the more abiding human mysteries is why the English--a proverbially tight-lipped and stiff-necked race--should have excelled in the louche world of the theatre for upwards of half a millennium. Richard Eyre provides some clues. He is director of the Royal National Theatre, and thus head boy of that dramatic sub-species known to brutish non-Thespians as the "luvvies". He is also, as his memoirs reveal, impeccably English. One of the triumphs of "Utopia and Other Places" is its convincing repudiation of...
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