Publisher's Synopsis
'This is Not My Memoir' tells the life story of André Gregory, iconic theatre director, writer, and actor. He shares memories from a life lived for art, including stories from the making of 'My Dinner with André'. Taking on the dizzying, wondrous nature of a fever dream, the book includes fantastic and fantastical stories that take the reader from wartime Paris to golden-age Hollywood, from avant-garde theatres to monasteries in India. Along the way we meet Jerzy Grotowski, Helene Weigel, Gregory Peck, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Wallace Shawn, and many other larger-than-life personalities. A collaboration between Gregory and Todd London who together create a portrait of an artist confronting his later years. Here, too, are the reflections of a man who only recently learned how to love.
