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Louise Petherbridge
Louise Durant Petherbridge (née Harris, born 1931), is a New Zealand actor, director, deviser, producer and lecturer. Early life Born in Dunedin, New Zealand, Petherbridge attended St Hilda's Collegiate and the University of Otago, graduating in 1953 with a BA in English. She was an active member of the Otago University Drama Society (OUDS), and also appeared in plays for the Dunedin Repertory Society, including Aldous Huxley's ''The Gioconda Smile'' (1949). In 1953, Petherbridge won a New Zealand Government Drama Bursary, which allowed her to study for two years at the Northern Theatre School in Bradford, under Esmé Church. A fellow student was Edward Petherbridge, and the two married in 1957. Career Petherbridge acted in weekly and fortnightly rep with companies including Lincoln Theatre Rep and Ipswich Rep (under director Peter Coe), playing Alison in the first out-of-London production of John Osborne's ''Look Back in Anger'' in August 1957. She also played the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Petherbridge
Louise Durant Petherbridge (née Harris, born 1931), is a New Zealand actor, director, deviser, producer and lecturer. Early life Born in Dunedin, New Zealand, Petherbridge attended St Hilda's Collegiate and the University of Otago, graduating in 1953 with a BA in English. She was an active member of the Otago University Drama Society (OUDS), and also appeared in plays for the Dunedin Repertory Society, including Aldous Huxley's ''The Gioconda Smile'' (1949). In 1953, Petherbridge won a New Zealand Government Drama Bursary, which allowed her to study for two years at the Northern Theatre School in Bradford, under Esmé Church. A fellow student was Edward Petherbridge, and the two married in 1957. Career Petherbridge acted in weekly and fortnightly rep with companies including Lincoln Theatre Rep and Ipswich Rep (under director Peter Coe), playing Alison in the first out-of-London production of John Osborne's ''Look Back in Anger'' in August 1957. She also played the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Goldman
James Goldman (June 30, 1927 – October 28, 1998) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He won an Academy Award for his screenplay ''The Lion in Winter'' (1968). His younger brother was novelist and screenwriter William Goldman. Biography The first son of a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, Goldman grew up primarily in Highland Park, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. He is most noted as the author of the screenplay for ''The Lion in Winter'' (1968), for which he received an Academy Award. He also wrote the book for the Broadway musical ''Follies'' (1971), which was nominated for a Tony Award. Goldman died in 1998 from a heart attack in New York City. He had lived there for many years. Works Plays * ''Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole'' (1961), with William Goldman * ''They Might Be Giants'' (1961), London * '' A Family Affair'' (1962), musical, book only (lyrics by William Goldman, music by John Kander) * ''The Lion in Winter'' (1966, revived 1999) * ''Follies'' (1971, rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris Panych
Morris Stephen Panych (born 30 June 1952) is a Canadian playwright, director and actor. Early life Panych was born in Calgary, Alberta and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. He studied at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, and the University of British Columbia. Plays *''Co$t of Living'' (1991) *'' The Ends of the Earth'' (1994) *''Vigil'' (1996) (adapted for the British stage as ''Auntie and Me'') Vigil played at the Belfry Theatre in Victoria, BC (15 November - 11 December 2022) and Panych is described on the playbill as one of Canada's "most prolific and idiosyncratic playwrights -- and one of the very best. I love his plays -- and his characters. So many of them approach the world with disdain and skepticism. But despite their best efforts -- they can't help finding the good in other people." This work is best described as a very funny black comedy.Playbill for Vigil at the Belfry Theatre, 15 November to 11 December 2022 *''Lawrence & Holloman'' *''Girl in the Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilary Norris
Hilary Norris is a New Zealand stage, film and television actress. Biography Norris has performed on stage and in film and television productions. She performed in theatre productions at Dunedin's Fortune Theatre The Fortune Theatre is a 432-seat West End theatre on Russell Street, near Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster. Since 1989 the theatre has hosted the long running play ''The Woman in Black''. History The site was acquired by author, playw ... from 1975 to 2013, and holds the record for the most appearances at the Fortune. Norris serves as an adjudicator for theatre festivals across New Zealand. Recognition Norris received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2013 Dunedin Theatre Awards. Filmography References {{DEFAULTSORT:Norris, Hilary Living people 21st-century New Zealand actresses Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travels With My Aunt (play)
''Travels with My Aunt'' is a 1989 comedy adapted by Scottish dramatist by Giles Havergal from Graham Greene's novel of the same title. The play was first staged at Citizens Theatre in Glasgow on 10 November 1989 with Havergal, Derwent Watson, Patrick Hannaway, and Christopher Gee, and has been performed in London West End theatres, off-Broadway in New York, and in San Francisco. From 2 May to 29 June 2013, ''Travels with My Aunt'' was staged at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, starring David Bamber and Jonathan Hyde Jonathan Stephen Geoffrey King (born 21 May 1948), known professionally as Jonathan "Nash" Hyde, is an Australian-English actor. Hyde is perhaps best known for roles as Herbert Arthur Runcible Cadbury in the 1994 comedy film '' Richie Rich'', Sa .... This stage version was reduced to a 50-minute, one-act version (with permission from Havergal) and first presented by the Backwell Playhouse Theatre Company as an entry into the Avon Association of Drama One ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them). He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world. He was awarded the 1968 Shakespeare Prize and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize. He converted to Catholicism in 1926 after meeting his future wife, Vivien Dayrell-Browning. Later in life he took to calling himself a "Catholic agnostic". He died in 1991, at age 86, of leukemia, and was buried in Corseaux cemetery. Early years (1904–1922) Henry Graham Greene was born in 1904 in St John's House, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Havergal
Giles Pollock Havergal CBE (born 9 June 1938, in Edinburgh) is a theatre director and actor, opera stage director, teacher, and adaptor. He was artistic director of Glasgow's Citizens Theatre from 1969 until he stepped down in 2003, one of the triumvirate of directors at the theatre, alongside Philip Prowse and Robert David MacDonald. Early years Giles Pollock Havergal was born in Edinburgh, Scotland to Dr. Henry MacLeod Havergal and his wife Hyacinth. Career Havergal was director of Watford Palace Theatre (1965–69) and director of the Citizens Theatre from 1969 to 2003. He directed over 80 plays in Glasgow including works by Shakespeare and Bertolt Brecht. He has also directed over 20 children and family Christmas productions, as well as guest-directing for companies including Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Shared Experience, 7.84, Wexford Festival Opera, Buxton Festival, Vancouver Opera, Minnesota Opera, Gelsenkirchen Opera, National Theatre Mannheim. Hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Court Theatre (New Zealand)
The Court Theatre is a professional theatre company based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was founded in 1971 and located in the Christchurch Arts Centre from 1976 until the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake. It opened new premises in Addington in December 2011. It is currently New Zealand's largest theatre company, and is led by Chief Executive Barbara George and Artistic Director Daniel Pengelly. History Founding and early years The company was founded by Yvette Bromley and Mervyn Thompson in 1971 who served as Co-artistic Directors for the first three years of the company. Bromley chose the theatre's name out of affection for the Royal Court Theatre in London, which she knew well from her upbringing and drama education. During the first eighteen months of its existence, The Court had three venues. The first was the Stone Chamber of the Canterbury Provincial Council Chambers (April – May 1971), where The Court's début production, ''The Prime of Miss Jean Brodi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelanne Forster
Michelanne Forster (born 26 April 1953) is a New Zealand playwright and scriptwriter who was born in California, USA. Her writing career began in the 1980s at Television New Zealand where she worked on the popular pre-school program '' Play School''. Her plays have been performed both nationally and internationally and are often based on historical accounts. In 2011 Forster was the writer-in-residence at the Michael King Writer's Centre. Education Forster graduated from the University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ... with a Bachelor of Arts and also holds a Diploma in Teaching from the Auckland Secondary Teachers College. In 2014 she completed her honours in Drama through the University of Auckland. Plays *Always My Sister *Don't Mention Casablanca * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (play)
''Les Liaisons dangereuses'' () is a 1985 play by Christopher Hampton adapted from the 1782 novel of the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. The plot focuses on the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, rivals who use sex as a weapon of humiliation and degradation, all the while enjoying their cruel games. Their targets are the virtuous (and married) Madame de Tourvel and Cécile de Volanges, a young girl who has fallen in love with her music tutor, the Chevalier Danceny. In order to gain their trust, Merteuil and Valmont pretend to help the secret lovers so they can use them later in their own treacherous schemes. 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company Staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, the play opened at The Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon on 24 September 1985. Directed by Howard Davies, the cast included Lindsay Duncan as the Marquise de Merteuil, Alan Rickman as the Vicomte de Valmont, Juliet Stevenson as Madame de Tourvel, Lesley Manville as Cécile de V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Devenie
Stuart Forbes Devenie is a New Zealand actor and theatre director, whose career spans three decades on stage and screen. He has performed in theatre productions nationally and internationally. In the 1980s, he was the artistic director of Centrepoint Theatre in Palmerston North and has been a senior educator at Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School. In 2000, he founded Playfair Ltd theatre company. Film and television As an actor, Devenie is best known for a trio of appearances in Peter Jackson films - ''Meet the Feebles'' (1989), ''Braindead'' (1992 - known in the United States as ''Dead Alive''), and ''The Frighteners'' (1996). His most memorable role may be that of Father McGruder in ''Braindead'', wherein he utters the line ''"I kick arse for the Lord!"''. In 2000, he appeared as Governor Croque in the short-lived Renaissance Pictures television series ''Jack of All Trades'', alongside American actor Bruce Campbell. More recently he played the Norse god Njord in ''The Alm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hay Fever (play)
Robert Andrews and Helen Spencer as her children, 1925">alt=middle-aged white woman in large sun-hat, with young adult male and female kneeling to each side ''Hay Fever'' is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1924. Its first production was in the West End theatre, West End in 1925 with Marie Tempest as Judith Bliss. A cross between high farce and a comedy of manners, the play is set in an English country house in the 1920s, and deals with the four eccentric members of the Bliss family and their outlandish behaviour when they each invite a guest to spend the weekend. The self-centred behaviour of the hosts finally drives their guests to flee while the Blisses are so engaged in a family row that they do not notice their guests' furtive departure. The play's original production opened in London in 1925 and ran for 337 performances. Coward wrote the piece with Tempest in mind for the central role of Judith. In later productions the part has been played by actresses including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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