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The Understudy: Theatre Historian Charles Duff on His Memoir, ‘Charley’s Woods’

The Understudy: Theatre Historian Charles Duff on His Memoir, ‘Charley’s Woods’

An unexpurgated account of an extraordinary life could, in lesser hands, have been a misery memoir. But Duff created a delightful literary work throughout which, even when revisiting the darkness of his past, he sprinkles gaiety and humour.