THEATRICAL legend and raconteur Victor Spinetti offers a peek into an extraordinary life and career in A Very Private Diary — Revisited, which appears at The Plough, Torrington this Saturday.
Born of Welsh and Italian heritage — his grandfather walked from Italy to Wales — Victor sprang to international fame as part of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be and Oh! What A Lovely War! which transferred to New York and for which he won a Tony Award for his role as an obnoxious drill sergeant.
Spinetti has appeared in more than 30 films including three with The Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Help and Magical Mystery Tour, as well as co-writing a play, In his Own Write with John Lennon which appeared at the National Theatre in 1968.
With a twinkle in his eye, Victor recounts tale of the great, the good and the not so good. His charmed life has brought him close to legends of stage and screen. His intimate, revealing and hilarious stories include Marlene Dietrich, Frank Sinatra, Princess Margaret, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Sir John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, and of course, The Beatles.
The 2008 revisited production is dedicated to Ned Sherrin and coincides with the release of Victor's biography Upfront this autumn in paperback.
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