Publishing in Summer 2019
Forget Vivaldi
By Addison Whittaker, illustrated & designed by Susannah Lewis
with caricatures by Cassie Kemp of Cornwall Caricatures
Less a memoir than the record of a journey: from the damp grey smog of 1950s post-war South London to the blistering summer heat and winter snows of the mountains above the Mojave Desert; via Soho, The Oval, The West End, The National Theatre, Broadway, the Cannes Film Festival, Hollywood and points between; stopping off at The Flamingo, Les Cousins, Charlie’s, Le Caveau, The Cock and Bull, Smoke House and The Twentieth Century Fox commissary among so very many; to meetings, and more, with Joseph E Levine, Bette Davis, Buddy Collette, Harold Pinter, Alex Karras, Nick Darke, David Bowie, Joseph Cotton, Robert de Niro, Dirk Bogarde, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson et al.
Forget Vivaldi is the story of a Producer’s adventures in theatreland and the screentrade on both sides of the Atlantic. How a South London boy grew into a highly respected film and theatre producer, and then found true happiness in literally building his home in the Sierra Mountains above Los Angeles.
“If a path opens before you, take it.
It will lead to another path, and another...
Eventually the path will lead you home.”
A saying of California’s Nuwa tribe.
Inspired by the locations and people in Forget Vivaldi, Susannah’s design and illustration incorporate specially commissioned caricatures created by Cassie Kemp of Cornwall Caricatures.
Forget Vivaldi is the story of a Producer’s adventures in theatreland and the screentrade on both sides of the Atlantic. How a South London boy grew into a highly respected film and theatre producer, and then found true happiness in literally building his home in the Sierra Mountains above Los Angeles.
“If a path opens before you, take it.
It will lead to another path, and another...
Eventually the path will lead you home.”
A saying of California’s Nuwa tribe.
Inspired by the locations and people in Forget Vivaldi, Susannah’s design and illustration incorporate specially commissioned caricatures created by Cassie Kemp of Cornwall Caricatures.