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London Road (musical)
''London Road'' is a musical written by Alecky Blythe (book and lyrics) and Adam Cork (music and lyrics). The production, directed by Rufus Norris, opened at the National Theatre's Cottesloe theatre in London, United Kingdom, on 14 April 2011 after seven previews. Overview The musical is set in and around London Road in Ipswich, Suffolk, during the Ipswich serial murders and subsequent trial of killer Steve Wright in 2006–2008. The piece is written in verbatim style, meaning the spoken text is reproduced by the performers exactly as recorded in interviews, in this case conducted by Blythe with the residents of London Road and some of the women who worked as prostitutes there, as well as members of the media who gathered in the area to report the news. The lyrics in the musical segments are similarly derived from the interviews as recorded, with the meter, pitch and rhythm of the music following the patterns of the original recorded speech as closely as possible. Neither th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alecky Blythe
Alecky Blythe is a British playwright and screenwriter. She has written several plays, including the acclaimed 2011 musical '' London Road''. Her first play ''Come Out Eli'' won a Time Out Award. ''The Girlfriend Experience'' premiered at the Royal Court and then transferred to the Young Vic in 2009. ''Do We Look Like Refugees?'' won a Fringe First Award at the 2010 Edinburgh Festival. '' London Road'' opened at the National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in 2011 to widespread acclaim. It was named Best Musical at the Critics' Circle Awards and transferred to the National's larger Olivier stage in 2012. Her subsequent play, ''Have I Been All My Life?'', opened at the New Vic Theatre in April 2012. In other work, Blythe took part in Headlong Theatre's production of ''Decade'' at St Katherine's Docks. She wrote and co-directed a BBC2 documentary on the London riots. She is also working on a film script. Blythe is best known for her pioneering work in verbatim theatre. Her theatre c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitch (music)
Pitch is a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies. Pitch is a major auditory attribute of musical tones, along with duration, loudness, and timbre. Pitch may be quantified as a frequency, but pitch is not a purely objective physical property; it is a subjective psychoacoustical attribute of sound. Historically, the study of pitch and pitch perception has been a central problem in psychoacoustics, and has been instrumental in forming and testing theories of sound representation, processing, and perception in the auditory system. Perception Pitch and frequency Pitch is an auditory sensation in which a listener assigns musical tones to relative positions on a musical scale based primarily on their perception of the frequency of vibration. Pitch is closely related to frequency, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Wisbey
Duncan James Wisbey (born 16 December 1971) is an English actor, musician, writer A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, p ... and Impressionist (entertainment), impressionist. He is often credited as simply Wisbey. Recordings and appearances From 2001, Wisbey collaborated with Jonny Trunk, founder of Trunk Records, to produce the album ''Dirty Fan Male'', based on Trunk's experiences organising glamour models' fan clubs. The album comprises Wisbey's amusing recitals of the fan mail they received, and it was later turned into an acclaimed live show and a book. The inclusion of Wisbey's song "The Ladies' Bras" on the 2007 compilation album ''Now We Are Ten'' and its appearances on ''The All Day Breakfast Show'' proved so successful that it was released as a single and becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Thornley (actor)
Paul Thornley is a British actor. He has appeared on stage in productions of '' A Chorus of Disapproval'' at the Harold Pinter Theatre, ''The Three Musketeers'' at the Rose Theatre, Kingston and ''It's a Wonderful Life'' at the Wolsey Theatre. Thornley played Dodge in the Original Cast of '' London Road'' at the Royal National Theatre, a role which he later reprised in the film of the same name. In 2016, he played Ron Weasley in the Original London Cast of ''Harry Potter and the Cursed Child'' at the Palace Theatre, London in the West End. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Play at the 2017 Whatsonstage.com Awards. Thornley reprised his role as Ron Weasley on Broadway at the Lyric Theater in 2018. For video games, Thornley provided the voice for Olgierd von Everec in the ''Hearts of Stone "Hearts of Stone" is an American R&B song. It became a #1 hit on two of the Billboard three lists, ''Best Sellers in Stores'' and ''Most Played in Jukeboxes'' in 1955 fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Shaeffer
Michael Shaeffer is an English actor, known for his roles as "Longcross" in the BBC political-thriller television series ''Bodyguard'' (2018), Sergeant Yelland in the BBC mystery thriller '' The ABC Murders'' (2018) and Stephen Kemp in the BBC fact-based drama ''The Salisbury Poisonings ''The Salisbury Poisonings'' is a fact-based television drama, starring Anne-Marie Duff, Rafe Spall and Annabel Scholey which portrays the 2018 Novichok poisonings and decontamination crisis in Salisbury, England, and the subsequent Amesbury ...'' (2020). Filmography Theatre References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Shaeffer, Michael 21st-century English male actors Alumni of Rose Bruford College English male stage actors English male film actors English male television actors Living people 1975 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Fleetwood
Kate Fleetwood (born 24 September 1972) is an English actress. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as Lady Macbeth in ''Macbeth'', which first opened at Chichester Festival Theatre and was transferred to the West End and Broadway, and for an Olivier Award for her performance as Julie in '' London Road'' at the National Theatre. She is patron of En Masse Theatre, and joint patron, with husband Rupert Goold, of Escape Arts' youth arts work. Early life Fleetwood grew up near Stratford-upon-Avon, and she is a graduate of Exeter University. She attended Trinity Catholic School in Leamington Spa. She began her career at the Royal Shakespeare Company during her childhood. Personal life She is married to Rupert Goold, who directed her in ''Macbeth''; they have a son and a daughter. Acting credits Stage *''Love Is the Drug'' (1995, Oxford Stage Company (OSC)) as Flamina *''Twelfth Night'' (1996, OSC) as Viola *''Swaggers'' (1996, Old Red Lion Theatre) as Nancy *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalie Craig
Rosalie Mae Craig (born 30 May 1981) is an English actress, noted for her performances in musical theatre. In 2013 she received her first major award, a London Evening Standard Award for Best Performance in a Musical. Life and career Craig grew up in Nottingham, and studied for a BA in Actor Musicianship at Rose Bruford College, from which she graduated in 2001. After graduation she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and made her professional stage debut in an adaptation by Adrian Mitchell of Alice in Wonderland. In 2007 she had her first leading role in a West End production, playing the character Arwen in the musical stage adaptation of ''The Lord of the Rings''. Since then her notable roles in theatre have included the title character in Tori Amos's ''The Light Princess'' at the National Theatre in 2013, for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award as well as winning an Evening Standard Award. She has also had leading parts in ''City of Angels'' (Donmar Warehouse) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Burt
Clare Burt is an English actress and singer, best known for her stage work and for her appearance on the television series ''The Bill''. Biography As a child she attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School. Burt is a member of the National Theatre company and has played in many productions, including: ''London Road'', ''The Miracle'', and as Mrs. Milcote in the 2006 production of Helen Edmundson's ''Coram Boy''. Her other productions include: ''Vernon God Little'', ''Closer Than Ever'', ''Company'', ''Into the Woods'', ''Nine'', ''Spread a Little Happiness'', ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'', and ''Pal Joey''. Her West End roles include Grizabella in ''Cats'' (New London Theatre), Rose Vibert in ''Aspects of Love'' (Prince of Wales Theatre), Celeste in ''Sunday in the Park with George'' (Royal National Theatre), Fosca in ''Passion'' (Bridewell) and two new musicals by Howard Goodall: ''The Hired Man'' (London Astoria) and ''Girlfriends'' (Playhouse Theatre). Burt will star as theatre d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percussion Instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Excluding zoomusicological instruments and the human voice, the percussion family is believed to include the oldest musical instruments.''The Oxford Companion to Music'', 10th edition, p.775, In spite of being a very common term to designate instruments, and to relate them to their players, the percussionists, percussion is not a systematic classificatory category of instruments, as described by the scientific field of organology. It is shown below that percussion instruments may belong to the organological classes of ideophone, membranophone, aerophone and cordophone. The percussion section of an orchestra most commonly contains instruments such as the timpani, snare drum, bass drum, tambourine, belonging to the membranophones, and cym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keyboard Instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos. Other keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, which are usually housed in bell towers or belfries of churches or municipal buildings. Today, the term ''keyboard'' often refers to keyboard-style synthesizers. Under the fingers of a sensitive performer, the keyboard may also be used to control dynamics, phrasing, shading, articulation, and other elements of expression—depending on the design and inherent capabilities of the instrument. Another important use of the word ''keyboard'' is in historical musicology, where it means an instrument whose identity cannot be firmly established. Particularly in the 18th century, the harpsichord, the clavichord, and the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic guitar exist). It uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals, which ultimately are reproduced as sound by loudspeakers. The sound is sometimes shaped or electronically altered to achieve different timbres or tonal qualities on the amplifier settings or the knobs on the guitar from that of an acoustic guitar. Often, this is done through the use of effects such as reverb, distortion and "overdrive"; the latter is considered to be a key element of electric blues guitar music and jazz and rock guitar playing. Invented in 1932, the electric guitar was adopted by jazz guitar players, who wanted to play single-note guitar solos in large big band ensembles. Early proponents of the electric guitar on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strings against frets with the fingers of the opposite hand. A plectrum or individual finger picks may also be used to strike the strings. The sound of the guitar is projected either acoustically, by means of a resonant chamber on the instrument, or amplified by an electronic pickup and an amplifier. The guitar is classified as a chordophone – meaning the sound is produced by a vibrating string stretched between two fixed points. Historically, a guitar was constructed from wood with its strings made of catgut. Steel guitar strings were introduced near the end of the nineteenth century in the United States; nylon strings came in the 1940s. The guitar's ancestors include the gittern, the vihuela, the four- course Renaissance guitar, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
