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Barry Boys: When I was at RADA
Hardcover: 956 pages

EXERPT: "There was a time when I was happy. When life amused me. When I felt joy and wanted to share that joy with my fellow man. Alas, it was a long time ago, and that time ended, as all things do, in a single moment. The results however, have lasted a lifetime. I remember it clearly, as if gored in my memory by a sharp-toothed saw. It was the morning of the first day of my seventeenth year. I was young, talented, full of promise and had never been buggered. A new life was beginning for me -- no longer was I to be the grimly-dressed, Dickensian pauper from the "wrong side of the Thames." I was now a student at the world's most prestigious bastion of thespianic pedagogy: the fabled halls of the Gower Street home of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. RADA. I had arrived! Whilst sitting on a faded velvet armchair in the grand salon, nervously clutching my apparatus, I glanced at the portraits of the heroes of my youth: Keen, Gielgud, Beerbohm-Tree, unaware of the fact that less than an hour later I was to become a man, a changed man, filled with, among other things, new-found biterness and acidity so profound they have endured unto this day."