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Claire Nadeau
Claire Nadeau (born 1 June 1945) is a French actress. Theater Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nadeau, Claire French film actresses 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresses Actresses from Paris Living people 1945 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Harling (writer)
Robert M. Harling III (born November 12, 1951) is an American writer, producer and film director. Biography Early life He was born in 1951 in Dothan, Alabama, one of three children of Robert M. Harling, Jr (1923-2019)., and Margaret Jones Harling (1923-2013).Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral HomeObituary: Margaret Jones Harling Margaret Jones Harling ObituaryKim Hubbard ''People'', Vol. 29, No. 3, January 25, 1988Julia ReedThe Interview: Robert Harling ''Garden & Gun'', December 2012 – January 2013 He graduated from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and obtained a J.D. degree from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans.Brooks BarnesSweet Tea and Tart Women ''The New York Times'', February 29, 2012 While in law school, he sang in a band which performed in New Orleans on weekends. Career However, Harling never used his legal education: skipping the bar exam, he instead moved to New York City to become an actor, auditioning for bit parts in plays and te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vagina Monologues
''The Vagina Monologues'' is an episodic play written in 1996 by Eve Ensler which developed and premiered at HERE Arts Center, Off-Off-Broadway in New York and was followed by an Off-Broadway run in at Westside Theatre. The play explores consensual and nonconsensual sexual experiences, body image, genital mutilation, direct and indirect encounters with reproduction, vaginal care, menstrual periods, prostitution, and several other topics through the eyes of women with various ages, races, sexualities, and other differences. Charles Isherwood of ''The New York Times'' called the play "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade." In 2018, ''The New York Times'' stated "No recent hour of theater has had a greater impact worldwide" in an article "The Great Work Continues: The 25 Best American Plays Since ‘Angels in America. Ensler originally starred in both the HERE premiere and in the first off-Broadway production, which was produced by David S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Louise Wilson
Mary Louise Wilson (born November 12, 1931) is an American actress, singer, and comedian. In a career that has spanned more than 50 years, she has appeared in a number of plays, films and television shows. Wilson's most notable work includes a Tony Award-winning role on Broadway in ''Grey Gardens''. She is also known for her appearances on '' One Day at a Time''. Early life Wilson was born in New Haven, Connecticut, but raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She married fellow actor Alfred “Chibbie” Cibelli on April 6, 1965 in New Haven. They were married for three years before the union ended in divorce. Work Stage ;Broadway * '' Hot Spot'' (1963) as Sue Ann (Broadway debut) * '' Flora, The Red Menace'' (1965) as Comrade Ada * ''Lovers and Other Strangers'' (1968) as Bernice * '' Noël Coward's Sweet Potato'' (1968) (replacement) * '' Promises, Promises'' (1968) as Marge MacDougall * ''Watercolor & Criss-Crossing'' (1970) * '' The Women'' (1973) as Nancy Blake * '' Gypsy: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Ruquier
Laurent Hugues Emmanuel Ruquier (; born 24 February 1963) is a French television presenter, radio host and comedian. He is also a lyricist, writer, columnist and impresario; he has been co-owner and general manager of Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau in Paris since 2011. He is best known for hosting the ''On n'est pas couché'' show on France 2 every Saturday evening from 2006 to 2020. Early years Ruquier grew up in a large family of modest means, the second of five siblings. His father, Roger Ruquier, now deceased, was a boilermaker at construction sites in Le Havre and his mother, Raymonde Ruquier (1924-September 2015), was a housewife.Biography from Laurent Ruquier's official website In high school, Laurent entertained his friends by publishing his first |
Véronique Olmi
Véronique Olmi (born 1962) is a French playwright and novelist. She won the Prix Alain-Fournier emerging artist award for her 2001 novella '' Bord de Mer''. It has since been translated into several European languages. Olmi has published a dozen plays and half a dozen novels. Bibliography ;Theatre *1996: ''Le Passage'', Édition de l'Arche *1997: ''Chaos debout/Les nuits sans lune'', Édition de l'Arche *1998: ''Point à la ligne/La Jouissance du scorpion'', Édition de l'Arche *2000: ''Le Jardin des apparences'', Actes Sud *2001: ''Mathilde'', Actes Sud *2006: ''Je nous aime beaucoup'', Éditions Grasset *2009: ''Une séparation'', Triartis *2014: ''Des baisers, pardon'' Avant-Scéne ;Novels * ''Bord de mer'', Actes Sud, 2001 et 2003, (translated as ''Beside the Sea'' by Adriana Hunter, published by Peirene Press) **Prix Alain-Fournier in 2002, Babel, J'ai lu * ''Numéro six'', Actes Sud, 2002 Babel, J'ai lu, Biblio Collège et Biblio lycée. * ''Un si bel avenir'', Actes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Ayckbourn
Sir Alan Ayckbourn (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific British playwright and director. He has written and produced as of 2021, more than eighty full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance. More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit '' Relatively Speaking'' opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967. Major successes include ''Absurd Person Singular'' (1975), ''The Norman Conquests'' trilogy (1973), '' Bedroom Farce'' (1975), ''Just Between Ourselves'' (1976), '' A Chorus of Disapproval'' (1984), ''Woman in Mind'' (1985), ''A Small Family Business'' (1987), '' Man of the Moment'' (1988), ''House'' & ''Garden'' (1999) and ''Private Fears in Public Places'' (2004). His plays have won numerous awards, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molière Award For Best Supporting Actress
Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Superlatives Winners and nominees * 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in ''Kean (play), Kean'' **Anne Alvaro in ''Tonight We Improvise'' (''Ce soir on improvise'') **Catherine Arditi in ''Adriana Monti'' **Lucienne Hamon in ''Conversations After a Burial'' (''Conversations après un enterrement'') **Magali Noël in ''Cabaret (musical), Cabaret'' * 1988 : Catherine Salviat in ''Dialogues of the Carmelites'' (''Dialogues des carmélites'') **Pascale de Boysson in ''Fall (play), Fall'' (''Ce que voit Fox'') **Denise Chalem in ''Double Inconstancy'' (''La Double Inconstance'') **Nicole Jamet in ''The Secret (play), The Secret'' (''Le Secret'') **Nada Strancar in ''The Winter's Tale'' (''Le Conte d'hiver'') * 1989 : Christine Murillo in ''The Seagull'' (''La Mouette'') **Béatrice Agenin in ''Une femme sans histoire'' **Catherine Rich (actress), Catherine Rich in ''La Vraie Vie'' **Martine Sarcey in ''Une absence'' **Michèle Simonnet in ''Just Bet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn, FRSL (; born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce ''Noises Off'' and the dramas ''Copenhagen'' and ''Democracy''. His novels, such as '' Towards the End of the Morning'', '' Headlong'' and ''Spies'', have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. He has also written philosophical works, such as ''The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe'' (2006). Early life Frayn was born at Mill Hill (then in Middlesex) to Thomas Allen Frayn, an asbestos salesman from a working-class family of blacksmiths, locksmiths and servants, in which deafness was hereditary, and his wife Violet Alice (née Lawson). Violet was the daughter of a failed palliasse merchant; having studied as a violinist at the Royal Academy of Music, she worked as a shop assistant and occasional clothes model at Harr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benefactors (play)
''Benefactors'' is a 1984 play by Michael Frayn. It is set in the 1960s and concerns an idealistic architect David and his wife Jane and their relationship with the cynical Colin and his wife Sheila. David is attempting to build some new homes to replace the slum housing of Basuto Road and is gradually forced by circumstances into building skyscrapers despite his initial aversion to these. This is set against the backdrop of 1960s new housing projects. Sheila becomes his secretary but it is unclear if she is helping him or the other way around. As the title of the play suggests it is about helping people and explores some of the difficulties inherent in this or in being helped. Awards and nominations ;Awards * 1984 Evening Standard Award for Best Play * 1984 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play * 1984 Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award for Best Play * 1986 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play ;Nominations * 1986 Drama Desk Award for Best Play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marie Besset
Jean-Marie Besset (born 1959) is a French contemporary playwright, translator and theater director. He has been nominated ten times for the Molière award (France's Tony Award) - six times as Best Playwright and four times as Best Translator. He won in 1999 for his adaptation of Michael Frayn's ''Copenhagen''. He won the Best New Play award from the Syndicat National de la Critique Dramatique (Association of French Critics) for ''Ce qui arrive et ce qu'on attend'' in 1993, the New Theater Talent prize from the SACD (Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers), also in 1993, and the Grand prix du théâtre de l'Académie française in 2005. He was named Chevalier (1995) and Officier (2002) in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and Chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite (2009) by the French government. Early life and career Born in Carcassonne on November 22, 1959, Besset spent his youth in Limoux, a small town in the southwest of France and continued his studies in Paris fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Mondy
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation of Aramaic כיפא (''Kefa),'' the nickname Jesus gave to apostle Simon Bar-Jona, referred in English as Saint Peter. Pierre is also found as a surname. People with the given name * Abbé Pierre, Henri Marie Joseph Grouès (1912–2007), French Catholic priest who founded the Emmaus Movement * Monsieur Pierre, Pierre Jean Philippe Zurcher-Margolle (c. 1890–1963), French ballroom dancer and dance teacher * Pierre (footballer), Lucas Pierre Santos Oliveira (born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Pierre, Baron of Beauvau (c. 1380–1453) * Pierre, Duke of Penthièvre (1845–1919) * Pierre, marquis de Fayet (died 1737), French naval commander and Governor General of Saint-Domingue * Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois (1895–1964), father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
