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Ché Walker
Ché Walker is an English actor, playwright, theatre director, and teacher. His musical ''Been So Long'' played at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Young Vic theatre. It was later developed into a feature film of the same name starring Michaela Coel and released by Netflix in 2018. As an actor, he has appeared on television, with credits including ''The Office'' and ''EastEnders''. His mother is the actress Ann Mitchell. Walker lives in Camden in London. Accolades * 2003 George Devine Award * 2003 Arts Council Young Writers Award, for ''Flesh Wound'' List of works Writing credits * ''Been So Long'', Royal Court Theatre, London, 1998; Young Vic Theatre, London, 2009 *''Jack and the Beanstalk'', Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, London, 2009 * translation of Sophocles' ''Iphigenia'', Southwark Playhouse * '' Flesh Wound'', Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, * '' Crazy Love'', Glasgow: Oran Mor, Scotland, 2007 * '' Dance for Me'', Webber Douglas, 2004 * '' A Passion for Mayh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Been So Long
''Been So Long'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Arthur Darvill and book by Ché Walker. The musical is based on Walker's 1998 play of the same name. ''Been So Long'' premiered at the Young Vic on July 11, 2009 and then transferred to Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh on August 7, 2009 as part of the Edinburgh Festival. A live cast recording was also made of the production. Original Cast * Yvonne - Naana Agyei-Ampadu * Gil - Harry Hepple * Raymond - Arinze Kene * Simone - Cat Simmons * Barney - Omar Lye-Fook * Singers - Samantha-Antoinette Smith, Gemma Knight Jones, Jenessa Qua Film adaptation A film adaptation, directed by Tinge Krishnan, was released on Netflix on October 26, 2018. The film stars Michaela Coel as Simone and Arinzé Kene Arinzé Mokwe Kene () is a Nigerian-born British actor and playwright. Early life In 1987, Kene was born in Lagos, Nigeria and moved to London when he was four. Kene's father was a taxi driver. Kene was bullied growing up an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Passion For Mayhem
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Prayer For Owen Meany
''A Prayer for Owen Meany'' is the seventh novel by American writer John Irving. Published in 1989, it tells the story of John Wheelwright and his best friend Owen Meany growing up together in a small New Hampshire town during the 1950s and 1960s. According to John's narration, Owen is a remarkable boy in many ways; he believes himself to be God's instrument and sets out to fulfill the fate he has prophesied for himself. The novel is also an homage to Günter Grass's most famous novel, ''The Tin Drum''. Grass was a great influence for John Irving, as well as a close friend. The main characters of both novels, Owen Meany and Oskar Matzerath, share the same initials as well as some other characteristics, and their stories show some parallels. Irving has confirmed the similarities. ''A Prayer for Owen Meany'', however, follows an independent and separate plot. Plot summary The story is narrated by John Wheelwright, a former citizen of New Hampshire who has become a voluntary expatria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Mouthful Of Birds
''A Mouthful of Birds'' is a 1986 play with dance, written by Caryl Churchill and David Lan, with choreography by Ian Spink. Drawing its themes from ''The Bacchae'' of Euripides, it is a meditation on possession, madness and female violence. Synopsis The play has an unusual structure; it is a series of seven independent vignettes each focusing on a different character. After every scene, a moment in the tragedy of Pentheus is seen. Dionysos, a dancer, watches the action invisibly, and his kiss causes each episode's central transformation. At the play's end, the characters return to give epilogues narrating how their stories continued. The episodes include: * An unhappy wife slowly succumbs to post-natal psychosis. She experiences command hallucinations telling her to drown her baby in the bathtub, and eventually does so. * A man's marriage and career are disrupted when he falls passionately in love with a pig at a slaughterhouse his company owns. * A voodoo practitioner newly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balm In Gilead
''Balm in Gilead'' is a 1965 play written by American playwright Lanford Wilson. Dramatic structure Wilson's first full-length play, ''Balm in Gilead'' centers on a café frequented by heroin addicts, prostitutes, and thieves. It features many unconventional theatrical devices, such as overlapping dialogue, simultaneous scenes, and unsympathetic lead characters. The plot draws a parallel between the amoral and criminal activity that the characters engage in to provide escape from their boredom and suffering, and the two main characters' becoming a couple in order to escape from their lives. The play takes its title from a quote in the Old Testament (Book of Jeremiah, chapter 46, verse 11). Production history Wilson wrote the play while living in New York City, finding inspiration by sitting in cafés and eavesdropping. He approached Marshall W. Mason, whom he knew from the Caffe Cino, to direct the production. After being workshopped in the directing and playwriting units of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Glory Of Living
''The Glory of Living'' is a 1996 play by Rebecca Gilman. The play received its first production at the Circle Theatre Chicago in Forest Park, Illinois. The play has won several awards and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Plot The play opens with the main characters Lisa and Clint meeting for the first time. Clint has accompanied a friend to Lisa and her mother's mobile home to see Lisa's mother, a prostitute. Clint picks up on Lisa's unease about her mother's situation and begins charming her. The next scene opens a few years later and Clint and Lisa have married and have twins who are being cared for by Clint's mother. The couple has been living in a series of motel rooms and are playing a scam whereby Lisa lures young girls into the room where Clint rapes and abuses them. Afterwards, Lisa murders the girls and disposes of their bodies. Plagued with guilt, Lisa calls the police with anonymous tips on the location of the bodies. Act I concludes with the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macbeth
''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, ''Macbeth'' most clearly reflects his relationship with King James, patron of Shakespeare's acting company. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book, and is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy. A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etta Jenks
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The Lightning Child
''The Lightning Child'' is a 2013 play by Ché Walker, freely adapting ''The Bacchae'' by Euripides. Its premiere production at Shakespeare's Globe in London ran from 14 September to 12 October 2013 - the same theatre has previously put on Walker's ''The Frontline''. The play includes songs by Arthur Darvill, who has also collaborated with Walker on ''The Frontline'' and the 2009 musical '' Been So Long''. Darvill had to recommence work on the score from scratch in October 2012 after his laptop was stolen. Plot Neil Armstrong prepares to set out for the moon, despite the pleadings of his wife not to go. On arriving there, he discovered Dionysus's transgender herald, who begins to tell him the story of Pentheus and Dionysus. Cadmus meets Tiresias, preparing to go to worship Dionysus. They are stopped by Pentheus, who announces his decision to extirpate Dionysus and his cult. Dionysus appears to his maenads and the herald describes the story of Ampelos. One of Pentheus' soldie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Frontline (play)
''The Frontline'' is a 2008 play by the British dramatist Ché Walker, with music by Arthur Darvill. It was written whilst he was appearing at Shakespeare's Globe in a production of ''Othello''. Walker lives in Camden in London and the play deals with street life outside Camden Town tube station Camden Town is a London Underground station on the Northern line. It is a major junction for the line, as it is where the Edgware and High Barnet branches merge from the north, and is also where they split to the south into the Bank and Charin .... Its premiere production was at the Globe from 9 July to 17 August 2008. As the first contemporary play to be staged at the Globe, the play received praise from critics for its writing and its acting. - one reviewer called it a "unique, some might say shocking, experience urban drama ... nda brave new presentation of 21st century London".http://www.abesha.com/zn/zine/reviews/the_frontline/ References 2008 plays English plays { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
