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I.D. (play)
''I.D.'' is a historical drama by Antony Sher. It debuted on 4 September 2003 at London's Almeida Theatre, directed by Nancy Meckler. The play is adapted from the book ''A Mouthful of Glass'' by Henk van Woerden, and follows the events surrounding the trial and imprisonment of the mentally unstable Demetrios Tsafendas, who in 1966 assassinated South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. Original cast The original cast included:Sher, Antony. 2003. ''I.D.'' London: Nick Hern Books, p. 12. *Jon Cartwright as Gavronsky, Buytendag, Gomez *Jonathan Duff as Pratt, Muller, Dr. Fisher *Alex Ferns as Lintwurm * Paul Herzberg as John Vorster, Kriel *Peter Landi as Father Daniels, Manolis *Lucian Msamati as Sipho *Oscar Pierce as City Gent, Schalk, Nikki, Junior Clerk *Antony Sher as Demetrios Tsafendas * Cleo Sylvestre as Helen Daniels, Daisy *Christopher Wells as Frank Waring, Judge Pienaar *Marius Weyers as Hendrik Verwoerd *Jennifer Woodburne as Betsie Verwoerd Other original pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historical Drama
A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical fiction and romance film, romances, adventure films, and swashbucklers. A period piece may be set in a vague or general era such as the Middle Ages, or a specific period such as the Roaring Twenties, or the recent past. Scholarship Films set in historical times have always been some of the most popular works. D. W. Griffith's ''The Birth of a Nation'' and Buster Keaton's ''The General (1926 film), The General'' are examples of popular early American works set during the U.S. Civil War. In different eras different subgenres have risen to popularity, such as the westerns and sword and sandal films that dominated North American cinema in the 1950s. The ''costume drama'' is often separated as a genre of historical dramas. Early critics defined them as films focusing on romance and relation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Vorster
Balthazar Johannes "B. J." Vorster (; also known as John Vorster; 13 December 1915 – 10 September 1983) was a South African apartheid politician who served as the prime minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978 and the fourth state president of South Africa from 1978 to 1979. Known as B. J. Vorster during much of his career, he came to prefer the anglicized name John in the 1970s. Vorster strongly adhered to his country's policy of apartheid, overseeing (as Minister of Justice) the Rivonia Trial, in which Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage, (as Prime Minister) the Terrorism Act, the complete abolition of non-white political representation, the Soweto Riots and the Steve Biko crisis. He conducted a more pragmatic foreign policy than his predecessors, in an effort to improve relations between the white minority government and South Africa's neighbours, particularly after the break-up of the Portuguese colonial empire. Shortly after the 1978 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Leonard (sound Designer)
John or Jack Leonard may refer to: * John Leonard (songwriter), early 19th century radical poet and songwriter, probably born in Gateshead *John Leonard (critic) (1939–2008), American literary, television, film, and cultural critic * John Leonard (poet) (born 1965), Australian poet * John Leonard (Gaelic footballer) (born 1976), Gaelic footballer * John Leonard (canoeist) (born 1948), New Zealand sprint canoeist * John Leonard (judge) (1926–2002), British judge * Johnny Leonard (1903–1995), Australian rules footballer * John B. Leonard (1864–1945), American civil engineer * John J. Leonard, American roboticist and professor at MIT * Jack Leonard (footballer) (1876–?), English footballer * Jack Leonard (hurler) (1873–1938), Irish hurler *Jack E. Leonard (1910–1973), American comedian and actor * John E. Leonard (1845–1878), United States Representative from Louisiana * J. William Leonard, director of the Information Security Oversight Office *John Leonardi (1541–1609 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarlett Mackmin
Scarlett Mackmin is an English choreographer. She trained in New York City and at the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance in London. Her work for the theatre includes ''The Hypochondriac'' (Almeida), ''President of an Empty Room'' (National Theatre), ''Sleeping Beauty'' (Barbican), ''The Dark'', ''Caligula'', ''After Miss Julie'', ''Privates on Parade'' (Donmar Warehouse), '' Cloud Nine'', ''The Modernist'', ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', '' The Tempest'', ''Bird Calls'', ''Batina and the Moon'', ''Iphigenia'' (Sheffield Crucible), '' Peribanez'', ''Sleeping Beauty'' (Young Vic), ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'' (Regent's Park), '' Up on the Roof'' ( Minerva, Chichester), ''In Flame'' (Bush Theatre/ New Ambassadors) and ''Airswimming'' (BAC). Her film credits include ''Empire of Light, Allelujah, The King's Speech'', ''Stage Beauty'', '' Chocolat'', ''The Last Minute'', and ''Miss Julie''. Her television credits include ''The Crown'' and Wheel of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilona Sekacz
Ilona Sekacz (born 6 April 1948) is a British composer of concert, film, television and theatre music. Biography Sekacz was born in Blackpool, Lancashire to a Polish father and an English mother. She studied violin and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Later she enrolled at the University of Birmingham, initially studying music but then changing to drama and theatre . Sekacz began her career making music for the theatre, spending three years with the Unicorn Theatre in London, for whom she composed musique concrète scores. She then worked for the Shared Experience company, and in 1982 composed music for the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of ''King Lear''. Subsequently, she worked extensively with that company as a freelance composer, writing music for plays by Shakespeare as well as by other authors . She scored a number of television projects in the 1980s, including Alan Bleasdale's ''Boys from the Blackstuff'' (1982), and the 1992 series of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betsie Verwoerd
Elizabeth "Betsie" Verwoerd (née Schoombee; 17 May 1901 – 29 February 2000) was the spouse of the Prime Minister of South Africa from 2 September 1958 until the assassination of her husband Hendrik Verwoerd on 6 September 1966. Betsie was of Danish descent and born on 17 May 1901 to Wynand Johannes Schoombee and Anna Francina Susanna Schoombee (née Naude) in Middelburg in the Cape Colony. Betsie met her husband while they both attended Stellenbosch University in the early-1920s. They were married in Hamburg, Germany where Verwoerd was studying on 7 January 1927. The couple returned to South Africa in 1928. They had seven children - five sons (Wilhelm, Hendrik, Christian, Daniel and Wynand) and two daughters (Anna and Elsabeth). One of her daughters, Anna, married Carel Boshoff, who later founded the Afrikaner settlement of Orania. Her husband was assassinated on 6 September 1966. Afterwards, she occasionally conducted some official duties such as opening the Hendrik Verw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marius Weyers
Marius Weyers (born 3 February 1945, in Johannesburg) is a South African actor. He lives with his wife Yvette, an artist in her own right, in Rooi-Els in the Western Cape. He received international attention playing Andrew Steyn, a bumbling scientist in the movie ''The Gods Must Be Crazy'' (1980). He appeared in ''Blood Diamond'' (2006). Selected filmography * 1967 ''Love Nights in the Taiga'' as Markjoff * 1974 ''No Gold for a Dead Diver'' as Rene Chagrin * 1977 ''Target of an Assassin'' as Colonel Pahler * 1980 ''The Gods Must Be Crazy'' as Andrew Steyn * 1982 ''Gandhi'' as Train Conductor * 1988 ''Thieves of Fortune'' as Unknown * 1989 ''DeepStar Six'' as Dr. John Van Gelder * 1989 ''Farewell to the King'' as Sergeant Conklin * 1989 '' Happy Together'' as Denny Dollenbacher * 1989 ''Jewel of the Gods'' as Snowy Grinder * 1992 '' The Power of One'' as Professor Daniel Marais * 1992 Golden Girls as Derek * 1993 ''Bopha!'' as Van Tonder * 1997 ''Paljas'' as Hendrik MacDonald * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleo Sylvestre
Cleopatra Mary Palmer (née Sylvestre; born 19 April 1945), known professionally as Cleo Sylvestre, is an English actress in film, stage and television. She was the first black woman ever to play a leading role at the National Theatre in London. Life and career She was brought up in Euston, north London by her mother, Laureen Sylvestre (née Goodare), a cabaret artist at the Shim Sham Club in Wardour Street, who was born in Yorkshire in 1911. Sylvestre was educated at Camden School for Girls and also attended the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. In 1964 she released a single, "To Know Him Is to Love Him", under the name ''"Cleo"'', produced by Andrew Loog Oldham and backed by The Rolling Stones. After Brian Jones left the Rolling Stones in 1969, she agreed to rehearse with his new band but abandoned music to concentrate on her theatre and television work. Her West End debut was at Wyndham's Theatre in ''Wise Child'' (1967) by Simon Gray, in which she starred alongside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucian Msamati
Lucian Gabriel Wiina Msamati (born 5 March 1976) is a British-Tanzanian actor. He played Salladhor Saan in HBO series ''Game of Thrones'', and was the first black actor to play Iago in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2015 production of ''Othello''. Early life and education Msamati was born in London on 5 March 1976 and brought up in Zimbabwe by his Tanzanian parents, a doctor and a nurse. After secondary education at Prince Edward School in Harare, he studied towards a BA honours degree in French and Portuguese at the University of Zimbabwe from 1995 to 1997. Career Theatre After university, he took a day-job as an advertising copywriter and freelance radio presenter. He also worked as a voice-over artist, compere and after-dinner speaker. In 1994, Msamati and school friends Shaheen Jassat (deceased), Craig and Gavin Peter, Kevin Hanssen, Roy Chizivano, Sarah Norman founded what would become Zimbabwe's acclaimed Over the Edge Theatre Company in Harare, later joined by Eri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Herzberg
Paul Herzberg (born 1953) is an actor and writer, known for ''The Honourable Woman'' (2014), ''Black Earth Rising'' (2019), ''My Week with Marilyn'' (2011), '' Room 36'' (2005), ''Blood'' and ''Cry Freedom'' (1987). Early life Born in Cape Town, Herzberg studied acting at the University of Cape Town drama school and scriptwriting at the College for Advanced Technical Education in Pretoria. He moved to the UK in 1976, after having served as a conscripted soldier on the Namibian border, during the period of the Angolan war. He then studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Career As an actor, his film and television appearances include ''Smiley's People'', ''Agatha Christie's Poirot - Dumb Witness'' and ''The Life and Loves of a She-Devil''. He co-wrote and starred in the feature film, ''Almost Heaven'' which won the Nashville International Best Feature Award. On stage, he played Stanley Kowalski in ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' at the Mermaid Theatre. He i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's '' Poetics'' (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory. The term "drama" comes from a Greek word meaning "deed" or " act" (Classical Greek: , ''drâma''), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: , ''dráō''). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word ''play'' or ''game'' (translating the Anglo-Saxon ''pleġan'' or Latin ''ludus'') was the standard term for dramas until William Shakespeare's time—just as its creator was a ''play-maker'' rather than a ''dramatist'' and the building was a ''play-house'' r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Ferns
Alexander Ferns (born 13 October 1968) is a Scottish actor and television personality, best known for his ''EastEnders'' role as Trevor Morgan, who was described as "Britain's most-hated soap villain" when he played the role between 2000 and 2002. He is also known for his role as Rick Harper in BBC Scotland soap opera, ''River City'', between 2017 and 2018. For his performance as coal miner Andrei Glukhov in the 2019 miniseries ''Chernobyl'' he received a BAFTA Scotland Award. Career Alex Ferns is the oldest of three children of his family, who left Scotland for South Africa, when Ferns was 11 years old.Susan Swarbrick: EastEnders' Alex Ferns on leaving River City and his Lennoxtown thriller'. In: heraldscotland.com, Januar 13, 2018. The family took up residence in Secunda, where Ferns′ father worked as an electrician during the construction of a power plant. After he finished school, he joined the South African Defence Force and fought in Angola between 1987 and 1989. Afterwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
