Overview
“If it is snobbish to prefer those who are beautiful, I am a snob.”
Cecil Beaton’s photographs showed his versatility; his diaries exposed the cost. Blisteringly funny, with appearances ranging from the Queen Mother and Elizabeth Taylor to Churchill and Truman Capote, the diaries paint a self-portrait of the 20th century’s most compelling dandy.
Returning to Jermyn Street Theatre following a smash hit run Off-Broadway, Sunday Times bestseller Richard Stirling brings the diaries of photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton to the stage for one night only to coincide with the National Portrait Gallery’s hit exhibition Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World.
People
Richard Stirling
Performer
Performer
Richard has appeared on film, television and UK and US stages, most recently off-Broadway in Cecil Beaton's Diaries and in London in The Gathered Leaves, directed by Adrian Noble.
Media
“Unexpectedly Moving”
The Stage
“Enthralling”
The Reviews Hub
“Stirling does a superlative job”
Talkin’ Broadway
“Stirling dexterously juggles the face of the flamboyant eccentric and the truth of the man behind it”
The Front Row Center (NY)