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Fanny Britt
Fanny Iseult Britt (born 1977) is a Canadian playwright and translator living in Quebec. She was born in Amos and grew up in Montreal. She studied playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada, graduating in 2001. In 2008, she founded Théâtre Debout with Geoffrey Gaquère and Johanne Haberlin. She was the winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language drama at the 2013 Governor General's Awards for her play ''Bienveillance'', and of the Governor General's Award for French-language novel at the 2021 Governor General's Awards for her novel ''Faire les sucres''. Works Translations * ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'' by Martin McDonagh; performed by and * ''The Pillowman'' by Martin McDonagh * ''The Lonesome West'' by Martin McDonagh * ''Kvetch'' by Steven Berkoff for Théâtre Niveau Parking * ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' by Mark Twain for Théâtre de la Petite Marée * ''The Good Person of Setzuan'' by Bertolt Brecht for Théâtre du Trident * ''Cul-de- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Fanny may refer to: Given name * Fanny (name), a feminine given name or a nickname, often for Frances In slang * A term for the vulva, in Britain and many other parts of the English-speaking world * A term for the buttocks, in the United States Plays and films * ''Fanny'' (play), a 1931 play by Marcel Pagnol ** ''Fanny'' (1932 film), a French adaptation ** ''Fanny'' (1933 film), an Italian production ** ''Fanny'' (musical), a 1954 Broadway musical based on the Pagnol plays ''Marius,'' ''Fanny'' and ''César'' ** ''Fanny'' (1961 film), an American non-musical film based on the 1954 musical ** ''Fanny'' (2013 film), a French adaptation by Daniel Auteuil * '' Fanny: The Right to Rock'', a 2021 Canadian documentary film directed by Bobbi Jo Hart profiling Fanny (band) Music * Fanny (band), an American all-female band active in the early 1970s :* ''Fanny'' (album), 1970 self-titled debut album by the band * Fanny (singer) (born 1979), French singer * Fanny J (born 1987), Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Good Person Of Setzuan
''The Good Person of Szechwan'' (german: Der gute Mensch von Sezuan, first translated less literally as ''The Good Man of Setzuan'') is a play written by the Germany, German playwdramatist Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration with Margarete Steffin and Ruth Berlau. The play was begun in 1938 but not completed until 1941, while the author was in exile in the United States. It was first performed in 1943 at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, Zürich Schauspielhaus in Switzerland, with a musical score and songs by Swiss composer Huldreich Georg Früh. Today, Paul Dessau's composition of the songs from 1947–48, also authorized by Brecht, is the better-known version. The play is an example of Brecht's "non-Aristotelian drama", a dramatic form intended to be staged with the methods of Epic theater, epic theatre. The play is a parable set in the Chinese "city of Sichuan". Themes Originally, Brecht planned to call the play ''The Product Love'' (''Die Ware Liebe''), meaning "love as a commodity". Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debbie Tucker Green
debbie tucker green is a British playwright, screenwriter, and director. She spells her name in lower-case. She has written a number of plays, including ''born bad'' (2003), for which she won the Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 2004. Most of her stage plays have been produced at the Royal Court Theatre and the Young Vic in London. She has been called "one of the most stylistically innovative and politically engaged playwrights at work in Britain today". Career tucker green was born in London, and before beginning to write plays worked for a decade as a stage manager. Her 2003 play ''dirty butterfly'' was produced by the Soho Theatre, and for her play ''born bad'' (Hampstead Theatre, 2003) she won the Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 2004. Her plays have also been staged at the Royal National Theatre, and performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. She won a BAFTA Award for ''random'', which was broadcast on Channel 4. In 2016, she won an ARIA (Audio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hang
Hang or Hanging may refer to: People * Choe Hang (other), various people * Luciano Hang (born 1962/1963), Brazilian billionaire businessman * Ren Hang (other), various people Law * Hanging, a form of capital punishment Arts, entertainment, and media Artwork * Hanging craft, a decorative or symbolic hanging object * Hanging scroll, a type of decorative art Music * ''Hang'' (Foxygen album), a 2017 album by the indie rock band Foxygen * ''Hang'' (Lagwagon album), an album by the punk band Lagwagon * "Hang", a song by Avail from their 1996 album ''4am Friday'' * " Hang out with You", a 2016 song recorded by American singer-songwriter Mary Lambert * "Hang", a song by Matchbox Twenty from their album ''Yourself or Someone Like You'' * Hang (instrument), a musical instrument Other uses * Meat hanging, a form of beef aging * Hang (computing), a computer malfunction * Hang (instrument), a musical instrument * "Hang in there", or "Hang in there, Baby", a popular cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah DeLappe
Sarah (born Sarai) is a biblical matriarch and prophetess, a major figure in Abrahamic religions. While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pious woman, renowned for her hospitality and beauty, the wife and half-sister of Abraham, and the mother of Isaac. Sarah has her feast day on 1 September in the Catholic Church, 19 August in the Coptic Orthodox Church, 20 January in the LCMS, and 12 and 20 December in the Eastern Orthodox Church. In the Hebrew Bible Family According to Book of Genesis 20:12, in conversation with the Philistine king Abimelech of Gerar, Abraham reveals Sarah to be both his wife and his half-sister, stating that the two share a father but not a mother. Such unions were later explicitly banned in the Book of Leviticus (). This would make Sarah the daughter of Terah and the half-sister of not only Abraham but Haran and Nahor. She would also have been the aun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wolves (play)
''The Wolves'' is a 2016 one-act play by Sarah DeLappe. It premiered Off-Broadway at The Duke at 42nd Street in September 2016 and centers on the experiences of high school girls through their weekly Saturday morning pre-game soccer warmups. The play received multiple awards and was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Synopsis ''The Wolves'' is set in an indoor soccer facility. Each scene depicts the nine teenage girls who make up the Wolves, a high school soccer team, conversing while they warm up before their game each week. In most scenes, the team is going through a stretching routine led by #25, the team captain, or doing practice exercises. The girls sometimes continue their gossip from the previous week, bringing up new developments or related topics. The first scene opens with discussion of the sentencing of an elderly participant of the Cambodian genocide, and conversations stem from there. Overlapping dialogue illustrates an atmosphere where each group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girls And Boys (Dennis Kelly Play)
Girls & Boys or Girls and Boys may refer to: * ''Girls & Boys'' (play), 2018 play by British playwright Dennis Kelly * ''Girls and Boys'' (album), an album by Ingrid Michaelson from 2006 * "Girls & Boys" (Prince song), a Prince song from 1986 * "Girls & Boys" (Blur song), a Blur song from 1994 * "Girls & Boys" (Good Charlotte song), a Good Charlotte song from 2003 * "Girls & Boys" (The Subways song), a Subways song from 2008 *"Girls and Boys", a Series G episode of the television series ''QI'' (2010) See also * Boys and Girls (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love And Money (Dennis Kelly Play)
Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest Interpersonal relationship, interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love for food. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of a strong attraction and emotional attachment (psychology), attachment.''Oxford Illustrated American Dictionary'' (1998) Love is considered to be both positive and negative, with its virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection, as "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another" and its vice representing human morality, moral flaw, akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism, as potentially leading people into a type of mania, Obsessive love, obsessiveness or codependency. It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
After The End (Dennis Kelly Play)
''After the End'' is a psychological thriller play by Dennis Kelly which premiered in 2005 produced by Paines Plough at the Traverse (Edinburgh) and then at the Bush Theatre (London), directed by Roxana Silbert and starring Tom Brooke and Kerry Condon. The play is in four parts, titled "Beginning", "Middle", "End", and "After the End". Characters * Louise - a popular young office worker * Mark - her colleague from the reprographic department Synopsis Louise wakes up in an underground nuclear fallout shelter. Mark says he rescued her from the carnage of a nuclear attack, and brought her to safety in the old shelter in his garden. She finds he has kept it stocked with tinned chilli. Isolated from the world, he tries to strong-arm her, at first to play Dungeons and Dragons with him. This psychological battle escalates as the days pass. Reviews The GuardianBritish Theatre GuideThe Times Other productions ''After The End'' is being revived at Theatre Royal Stratford East in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Kelly
Dennis Kelly is a British scriptwriter for theatre, television and film. His play ''DNA'', first performed in 2007, became a core set-text for GCSE in 2010 and has been studied by approximately 400,000 students each year. He wrote the book for ''Matilda the Musical'', which featured music and lyrics from musician and comedian Tim Minchin. The musical went on to win multiple ‘Best Musical’ awards, with Kelly receiving a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. A film adaptation of the musical with screenplay by Kelly will be released in December 2022. For television he is known for co-creating and co-writing the BBC Three sitcom '' Pulling'', the Channel 4 conspiracy thriller ''Utopia'' and the HBO / Sky Atlantic thriller ''The Third Day''. Kelly wrote the screenplay for the 2014 film ''Black Sea'', directed by Kevin Macdonald and starring Jude Law. Personal life Kelly grew up on a council estate in Barnet, North London. A child of an Irish family, he was one of five ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orphans (Dennis Kelly Play)
''Orphans'' is a 2009 play by London playwright Dennis Kelly, an exploration of violence in urban areas. Kelly said “I always want my plays to have tension; whether the audience hates it or loves it is up to them, but I never want them to be bored.” Synopsis Helen and her husband Danny are celebrating the news that Helen is newly pregnant with their second child with a quiet night in, but it is interrupted by Helen's brother Liam, who arrives covered in blood claiming to have found a young lad injured on the street. When Liam's recollection of the event begins to change under questioning, suspicions are aroused followed by increasing concern that he may have been more involved than first thought. Liam explains the events stage by stage, causing him to accidentally reveal that he committed a racially motivated hate crime. Helen coerces Danny to intimidate Liam's victim in order to prevent him from going to the police. When Danny and Liam return, Helen orders Liam to leave thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mighton
John Mighton, OC (born October 2, 1957) is a Canadian mathematician, author, and playwright. Education and career Mighton was born in Hamilton, Ontario on and lives in Toronto, Ontario with partner Pamela Sinha and daughter Chloe. In 1998 Mighton founded a highly successful math tutoring program. In 2002, based on the methods developed in the tutoring program, he founded JUMP (Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies) Math, a charitable organization that works to educate students in mathematics, and to promote those methods in the education system. Mighton points out that any child who learns language is capable of learning math. As a playwright, Mighton has been the recipient of the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre, two Governor General’s Literary Awards for Drama, the Dora Award, and the Chalmers Award. His plays include ''Possible Worlds'', ''The Little Years'', ''Body & Soul'', ''Scientific Americans'', ''A Short History of Night'', and ''Half Life''. Mighton completed a Ph.D. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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