Tales from an Actor's Life is the latest book by Steven Berkoff.  "Acting must be one of the strangest professions since the rules are so flexible and few can agree even on the simplest of them".

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208 pages, hardback.
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The sensational Channel 4 1984 production of West, available for the first time on DVD Set in the 1960s, the age of rock ‘n’ roll and teenage rebellions.

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Steven Berkoff's remarkable memoir of misspent youth is evocative and compelling from the very first page

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232 pages, hardback.
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A Special Edition, for the first time on DVD, the Berkoff film classic Decadence.
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The story of London's East End, that exotic dumping ground of a great city, with its colourful, cheeky, soil-of-the-earth inhabitants is told by Steven Berkoff who grew up in the East End and lives there still.
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Berkoff's production of the stage version of his celebrated play ' East'.  Made the Royal National Theatre's top 100 plays of the century list.
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Approx 113 minutes plus 8 minutes special features
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Berkoff's Royal National Theatre's production of Oscar Wilde's 'Salome'.  Filmed for television in the Ginza Saison Theatre, Tokyo in 1992, starring Berkoff as Herod.
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Berkoff's 2002 Royal National Theatre production of his own adaptation of Kafka's 'The Trial', with Berkoff appearing as Titorelli.
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Berkoff's solo performance of Edgar Allan Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart"- a horrific study of a demented personality.  Shot in November 2002 at the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town. Includes an interview with Berkoff.
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Berkoff's Royal National Theatre's production of Oscar Wilde's 'Salome'.  Filmed for television in the Ginza Saison Theatre, Tokyo in 1992, starring Berkoff as Herod.
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Berkoff's powerful production of Shakespeare's play, starring Berkoff as Coriolanus.  Filmed at the Tokyo Globe Theatre.
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Berkoff's 2002 Royal National Theatre production of his own adaptation of Kafka's 'The Trial', with Berkoff appearing as Titorelli.
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Steven Berkoff's autobiography.  This is essential reading for all those fascinated by the explosive dynamism that is Steven Berkoff and an inspiration to those entering the theatrical profession.

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410 pages, paperback.
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East, West, Greek, Sink the Belgrano!, Massage, Lunch, The Bow of Ulysses, Sturm und Drang.

The plays each have an author's note.
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273 pages, paperback.
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Decadence, Kvetch, Acapulco, Harry's Christmas, Brighton Beach Scumbags, Dahling You Were Marvellous, Dog, Actor.

The plays each have an author's note.
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233 pages, paperback.
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Ritual in Blood, The Messiah, Oedipus.

The plays each have an author's note.
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218 pages, paperback.
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In 1988 Steven Berkoff went to Rio to work with Ronnie Biggs on the screen version of Biggs's life in Brazil, and during the months on the film set he kept a diary which is funny, observant, opinionated and as passionate as anything Berkoff has yet written...'

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196 pages, hardback.
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Poetry by Steven Berkoff.

"Most of all in the night, suddenly feeling
desperately alone I awoke, forgetting for the
moment as I surface through the clouds of a
dream. Forgetting that my mate lay next to me,
my mate sleeping beside me... I turned to face
her suddenly, and in that one desperate second of
loneliness I turn to hold her fast but firm in my arms as if a
thousand years away and in that one desperate
second I rushed to seize her as if I had returned
home from a desperate voyage."
 

"...there is something fascinating about performing an Elizabethan play within the scrapers of Manhattan and the still rotting slums of the Lower East Side, between the steaming breath oozing out from the cracked pipes and the brutality of modern New York speak.  New York became the background and the energy which charged me each day for my work and fed my inspiration".
 

Steven Berkoff has had an obsession with food commencing with his earliest childhood memories at his mother’s table and developed through his travels around the world as an actor out on tour. Away from the comforts of family and home cooking, food took on the role of companion and lover.

 

Berkoff reflects on some of the world's most extraordinary people he has had the good fortune to work with on stage and on film... including Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Joan Collins, Sylvester Stallone and Eddie Murphy.
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Nothing escapes Berkoff's basilisk vision.  Something as apparently normal as shopping in the Santa Monica Mall becomes a Kafkaesque vision of hell.  A journey round the world at Berkoff's side. Brace yourself.
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226 pages, hardback
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A poem written to pay homage to the unknown victims who died in the 911 tragedy, such as the window cleaner Roko Camaj.
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"the stuff of grand drama" (The Guardian)

"the writing has beauty and sincerity" (The Daily Telegraph)

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37 pages, paperback.
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Hamlet and Ophelia express the infinite variety of their passion in a work which takes the form of an epistolary play in verse.
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58 pages, paperback.
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The Trial, Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony.

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142 pages, paperback.
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Adaptations of Agamemnon and Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.

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93 pages, paperback.
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Tales of an Actor.  11 short stories.
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Berkoff: Brutal, compassionate, brilliant.  Examines the actor's soul with a precision that is acutely painful and appallingly funny." (Richard E. Grant)

"He is a pioneer.  His views are both caustic and invigorating... I hope they will be read by anyone interested in the theatre and in the work of actors." (Paul Schofield)

158 pages, paperback.
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16 short provocative tales by Steven Berkoff.
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117 pages, paperback.
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Berkoff dissects and illuminates Kafka's story and his own stage adaptation.
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'Franz Kafka has found his perfect modern interpreter in Steven Berkoff.' Financial Times

142 pages, paperback
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Berkoff's journal of directing Coriolanus in Germany.
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160 pages, paperback.
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An intensely personal analysis by Berkoff of his 1979 production of Shakespeare's play in which he played the title role.
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"When you play Hamlet, you play yourself and play the instrument which is you." Berkoff says.  "If you make a good tune as an actor your best tunes will come out as Hamlet."

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209 pages, hardback.
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Prisoner in Rio

For a limited period a special offer of A Prisoner in Rio and Shopping in the Santa Monica Mall at a reduced price.

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Coriolanus

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Salome VHS
 

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The Trial

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Tell-Tale Heart