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Lucky You (theatre Adaptation)
''Lucky You'' is a theatre adaptation of the bestselling novel by Carl Hiaasen that premiered at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play was adapted by Denis Calandra and Francis Matthews, directed by Francis Matthews, produced by Katharine Doré and Jon Plowman, with music composed by Loudon Wainwright III. It stars Nicola Alexis, Trevor White, Corey Johnson, Alexandra Gilbreath, Josh Cohen, Kristina Mitchell, Geff Francis Geffrey "Geff" Francis (born 1964), best known as Geff Francis, is a British actor who portrayed Lynford, a hoodlum, in the 1988 drama film ''For Queen and Country''. In 1986 he appeared as the title character in Channel Four's ''Zastrozzi, A R ... and Paul Reynolds.http://www.seeluckyyou.com References Novels by Carl Hiaasen 2008 plays Plays based on novels Plays set in Florida Plays about race and ethnicity {{2000s-play-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucky You (novel)
''Lucky You'' is a 1997 novel by Carl Hiaasen. It is set in Florida, and recounts the story of JoLayne Lucks, a black woman who is one of two winners of a lottery. The book parodies paranoid militia movement groups that believe in somewhat bizarre conspiracy theories. It also takes a satiric look at the fictional community of Grange, Florida, (based on the real community of Cassadaga) and its cottage tourist industry based on the "discovery" of various religious miracles. A theatrical adaptation premiered in Edinburgh in 2008. Plot summary Newspaper reporter Tom Krome is sent to the small Florida town of Grange to interview JoLayne Lucks, an African-American veterinary assistant who holds one of two winning tickets to the state lottery. She agrees to an interview, but politely declines to have a news story written about her. The other winning lottery ticket is held by Bode Gazzer and his best friend "Chub," two unemployed white supremacists. Bode is the founder and self-pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Gilbreath
Alexandra Gilbreath (born 28 March 1969) is an English actress, born in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Widely known for her role as depressed author Lucy Moss in ''Not Going Out''. Work both on stage and onscreen (in film and on television), Gilbreath is an Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company, gaining notice for her work in productions of ''Romeo and Juliet'', ''As You Like It'', ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (for which she received a Helen Hayed Award nomination for Best Actress), ''The Tamer Tamed'', ''The Winter's Tale'' and ''Merry Wives: the Musical''. She was nominated for an Olivier award as Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Olivia in the RSC's ''Twelfth Night'', directed by Greg Doran, which played at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in 2010. She was also awarded the 1996 Ian Charleson Award for her performance as the title character in ''Hedda Gabler'' for the English T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plays Based On Novels
Play most commonly refers to: * Play (activity), an activity done for enjoyment * Play (theatre), a work of drama Play may refer also to: Computers and technology * Google Play, a digital content service * Play Framework, a Java framework * Play Mobile, a Polish internet provider * Xperia Play, an Android phone * Rakuten.co.uk (formerly Play.com), an online retailer * Backlash (engineering), or ''play'', non-reversible part of movement * Petroleum play, oil fields with same geological circumstances * Play symbol, in media control devices Film * ''Play'' (2005 film), Chilean film directed by Alicia Scherson * ''Play'', a 2009 short film directed by David Kaplan * ''Play'' (2011 film), a Swedish film directed by Ruben Östlund * ''Rush'' (2012 film), an Indian film earlier titled ''Play'' and also known as ''Raftaar 24 x 7'' * ''The Play'' (film), a 2013 Bengali film Literature and publications * ''Play'' (play), written by Samuel Beckett * ''Play'' (''The New York Times'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Plays
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Novels By Carl Hiaasen
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Reynolds (actor)
Paul Reynolds (born 6 February 1970) is an English actor, well known for portraying Colin Mathews in ''Press Gang'' (1989–1993), Kelvin Raine in ''Maisie Raine'' (1998) and convicted police murderer Chris Craig in ''Let Him Have It'' (1991). Early life Reynolds was born in Wanstead, London, and attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School. Career Reynolds' breakthrough role on television came playing Thatcherite Colin Mathews in the BAFTA award-winning ITV series ''Press Gang''. His career continued with the roles of Kevin in ''Ghostbusters of East Finchley'' and Sammy Dobbs, the unscrupulous sports agent in Andy Hamilton's '' Trevor's World of Sport''. On the big screen, Reynolds portrayed Christopher Craig opposite Christopher Eccleston's Derek Bentley in ''Let Him Have It'' and the mischievous Matt in ''Croupier'' alongside Clive Owen. In later years, Reynolds made appearances as Squeak in 1995 and 1998 in ''Absolutely Fabulous'' alongside Julia Sawalha, his ''Press Gang'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geff Francis
Geffrey "Geff" Francis (born 1964), best known as Geff Francis, is a British actor who portrayed Lynford, a hoodlum, in the 1988 drama film ''For Queen and Country''. In 1986 he appeared as the title character in Channel Four's ''Zastrozzi, A Romance'' and in a minor role in ''The Singing Detective''. In the popular Peckham-set comedy ''Desmond's'' he played the title character's eldest son (Michael) (Channel Four, 1989–94), before moving on to the spin-off series '' Porkpie'' (1995–96).Hazelann Williams"‘It's About Time They Brought Back Desmond's'" ''The Voice'', 26 January 2013. He has since become a regular character actor on British television. He portrayed the Metropolitan Police desk sergeant Viv James in the 2008-10 TV series '' Ashes to Ashes''. He also appeared in "The Bells of Saint John", a 2013 episode of ''Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristina Mitchell
Kristina Corinthos-Davis is a fictional character ''General Hospital'', an American soap opera on the ABC network. Introduced in 2002, Kristina is the daughter of mob kingpin Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) and his former attorney -- Alexis Davis (Nancy Lee Grahn). She is currently being portrayed by Lexi Ainsworth after being rapidly aged in 2009. Ainsworth received critical acclaim for her portrayal and was nominated for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 2011. Between 2012–13, she was played by Lindsey Morgan. Kristina's storylines during Morgan's tenure were critically panned, but Morgan also earned a Daytime Emmy nomination in the Outstanding Younger Actress category in 2013. In 2015, Ainsworth returned to the role. In 2017, Ainsworth won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series. Casting From December 2002 to July 2003, Kristina was portrayed by unknown child actors; followed by Kara and Shelby Hoffman fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corey Johnson (actor)
Corey Johnson (born John Johnson; May 17, 1961) is an American character actor largely active in the UK, known for his supporting roles in ''Hellboy'', '' Kingsman: The Secret Service'', '' Captain Philips'', '' The Bourne Ultimatum'', '' Kick-Ass,'' '' Ex Machina'', the '' Spooks'' episode " The Special", the ''Doctor Who'' episode "Dalek" and ''The Last Days of Lehman Brothers'' as Richard S. Fuld, Jr., the final chairman & CEO of Lehman Brothers. Personal life Johnson was born John Johnson in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was one of five children, having two brothers and two sisters. One of his brothers is a sports talk radio personality in New Orleans. He trained professionally at London's Central School of Speech and Drama where he met actress Lucy Cohu. The two married but they later divorced. Career His films include '' Out for a Kill'', ''The Contract'', '' The Bourne Ultimatum'', '' The Bourne Legacy'', ''Saving Private Ryan'', Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of ''Hellboy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen (; born March 12, 1953) is an American journalist and novelist. He began his career as a newspaper reporter and by the late 1970s had begun writing novels in his spare time, both for adults and for young-adult readers. Two of his novels have been made into feature films. Hiaasen's adult novels are humorous crime thrillers set in Florida. They feature casts of eccentric, sometimes grotesque characters and satirize aspects of American popular culture. Many of the novels include themes related to environmentalism and political corruption in his native state. Early life and education Hiaasen was born in 1953 and raised in Plantation, Florida, then a rural suburb of Fort Lauderdale. He was the first of four children born to Odel and Patricia Hiaasen. He has Norwegian and Irish ancestry. He started writing at age six when his father bought him a typewriter for Christmas. After graduating from Plantation High School in 1970, he entered Emory University, where he contrib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor White (actor)
Trevor White is a Canadian and British actor working in theatre, film, television and voice since 1994, based in London, England since 2001. Early and personal life White is fluent in French and Spanish, and performs both in his native Canadian, as well as an English accent. In 2013, he married actress Eleanor Matsuura. They had their first child in 2017. Career Trevor White is a British and Canadian actor, based in London. Film and TV credits include: '' Industry'', ''I Hate Suzie'', ''Doctor Who'', ''The Dark Knight Rises'', ''Downton Abbey'', ''Jason Bourne'', ''World War Z'', ''Die Another Day'', and '' Burton & Taylor''. He has had recurring roles on ''The Durrells'', ''Millennium'', '' Episodes'', '' Hunted'', and ''X Company''. On stage, he has played Hotspur in Henry IV, and Tullus Aufidius in ''Coriolanus'', for the Royal Shakespeare Company. White also played James Tyrone Jr. in the critically acclaimed 2012 West End production of Eugene O'Neill's '' Long Day's Journey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Alexis
Nicola Alexis is a British actress best known for playing the role of WPC Ruby Buxton in the long running ITV drama ''The Bill''. She played the lead role in the theatre adaptation of Carl Hiaasen's Lucky You, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008. She made a guest appearance in ''EastEnders'' in August 2015 as the midwife that delivered the stillbirth child of Shabnam Masood and Kush Kazemi (Rakhee Thakrar and Davood Ghadami) Alexis has been cast in the Harry Potter play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ''Harry Potter and the Cursed Child'' is a play written by Jack Thorne from an original story by J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Thorne. Previews of the play began at the Palace Theatre, London, on 7 June 2016 as a two-part play, and it prem .... References External links * * http://www.nicolaalexis.com website Nicola Alexis at Waring McKenna Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Black British actresses English people of Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
