His experiences provided the material for Mister Norris Changes Trains (1935) and Goodbye to Berlin (1938), still his most famous book. In 1930, he moved to Berlin, where he taught English, dabbled in Communism, and enthusiastically explored his homosexuality. He briefly attended medical school and progressed with his first two novels, All the Conspirators (1928) and The Memorial (1932). Isherwood tells the story in his first autobiography, Lions and Shadows.Īfter Isherwood wrote joke answers on his second-year exams, Cambridge University in 1925 asked him to leave. Auden he wrote three plays- The Dog Beneath the Skin (1932), The Ascent of F6 (1936), and On the Frontier (1938). Isherwood was a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. Film Musical – Cabaret (1972) – directed by Bob Fosse, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, starring Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, and Michael York.British-born American writer Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood portrayed Berlin in the early 1930s in his best known works, such as Goodbye to Berlin (1939), the basis for the musical Cabaret (1966).Broadway Musical – Cabaret (1966) – directed by Hal Prince, book by Joe Masteroff, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, starring Jill Haworth, Bert Convy, Lotte Lenya, Jack Gilford, and Joel Grey.Film – I Am a Camera (1955) – screenplay by John Collier, music by Malcolm Arnold, starring Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, and Shelley Winters.It also earned the famous review by Walter Kerr, 'Me no Leica'. The play also won for John Van Druten the New York Drama Critics' Circle for Best American Play (1952).

The production was a critically acclaimed success for both Julie Harris as the insouciant Sally Bowles, winning her the first of five Tony Awards of her career for Best Leading Actress in a play, and for Marian Winters, who won both the Theatre World Award and Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Play. It opened at the Empire Theatre in New York City on Novemand ran for 214 performances before closing on July 12, 1952. The title is a quotation taken from the novel's first page: 'I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.' The original production was staged by John Van Druten, with scenic and lighting design by Boris Aronson and costumes by Ellen Goldsborough. I Am a Camera is a 1951 Broadway play by John Van Druten adapted from Christopher Isherwood's 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin, which is part of The Berlin Stories. Adapted from the Berlin Stories by Christopher IsherwoodĪn English writer living in Berlin before the rise of the Hitler regimeĪ room in Fraulein Schneider's flat in Berlin 1930

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