'This beautifully written book by the director Michael Blakemore puts most such volumes to shame. It is full of both sharp insights and sudden shafts of wisdom. Often wonderfully funny, it is also touching and painfully honest. By the time you have finished Arguments with England , the author feels like an unusually wise and sympathetic friend.' Sunday Telegraph 'Some of the most exhilarating writing about theatre ever committed to paper, a beady...