- the life and art of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree Tree once said of himself ' I can't help being exceptional.' He was a man of enormous contrasts - an innovator and yet the producer of over-decorated Shakespearean productions.Themirrorofhis generation, he reflected the attitudes of Edward VII and led his life against a background of grandiose productions, attended by a glittering aristocracy.
Bryan Forbes presents a portrait of the actor-manager whom Bernard Shaw described as the most modest of men ' and of whom Oscar Wilde said, ' A charming fellow - he models himself on me '. with Robert Eddison as Sir Herbert Producer JOHN knight