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Desperado Corner
''Desperado Corner'' is a play written for the stage by English playwright Shaun Lawton. It started out as a collection of performance poetry, performance poems and monologues written and performed by Lawton in London between 1973 and 1976. It is set in the seaside town of Redcar in the north east of England in 1959. It premiered at the Citizens Theatre, in Glasgow, on 16 January 1981, with Di Trevis directing. Among the cast were Gary Oldman, Jim Cartwright and Mark Rylance. It was staged that same year at the Citizens, this time directed by Robert David MacDonald. That same year, 1981, there was also a production of the play by final year students at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at their Vanbrugh Theatre in London. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun Lawton
Sydney Shaun Lawton (born 1941 in New Marske, North Riding of Yorkshire) is an English playwright, poet, actor and singer/songwriter. Lawton is probably best known for his '' Desperado Corner'', which has been described as a 'sprawling, four-act, mad, wonderful play... about working class boys from Redcar standing in pools of piss swearing'. Lawton showed the play to Di Trevis, who directed its premier in the Glasgow Citizens Theatre in 1981. Lawton later played film roles in ''Possession'' (1981), ''John Rabe John Heinrich Detlef Rabe (23 November 1882 – 5 January 1950) was a German businessman and Nazi Party member best known for his efforts to stop war crimes during the Japanese Nanjing Massacre (also known as Nanking) and his work to prot ...'' (2009), and '' Anonymous'' (2011). References External links *Official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Lawton, Shaun English male stage actors English dramatists and playwrights English expatriates in Germany Living peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |