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Ryan Craig (playwright)
Ryan Craig (born 9 January 1972) is a British playwright, whose plays usually probe both social norms and ethical issues. He is also a writer for screen, television and radio. Craig is best known for his plays ''What We Did To Weinstein'' (Menier Chocolate Factory, London, 2005), which earned him a Most Promising Playwright Nomination at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards; ''The Glass Room'' (Hampstead Theatre, 2006), which deals with Holocaust denial; and ''The Holy Rosenbergs'' ( National Theatre, 2011); as well as for writing the English version of Tadeusz Słobodzianek's ''Our Class'' ( National Theatre, 2009). His most recent play is the semi-autobiographical ''Filthy Business'' (Hampstead Theatre, 2017). Early life Craig was born near Hampstead Heath, London, to parents of Jewish, Dutch and Northern Irish heritage. His father worked in the family rubber retail business, depicted in Craig's 2017 play ''Filthy Business''. When Craig was two he moved with his family to the up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British People
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.: British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, "British" or "Britons" can refer to the Ancient Britons, the indigenous inhabitants of Great Britain and Brittany, whose surviving members are the modern Welsh people, Cornish people, and Bretons. It also refers to citizens of the former British Empire, who settled in the country prior to 1973, and hold neither UK citizenship nor nationality. Though early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered a sense of British national identity.. The notion of Britishness and a shared Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etcetera Theatre
The Etcetera Theatre is a fringe venue for theatre and comedy. It was founded in 1986 and is situated above The Oxford Arms pub in Camden Town, in the London Borough of Camden. The Theatre won the ''1996 Guinness Ingenuity Award for Pub Theatre'' and was nominated for the ''1996 Peter Brook Empty Space Award''. The Etcetera is a key venue in August's Camden Fringe. Productions Over 2,500 productions have been staged at the Etcetera, including runs by Russell Brand, Simon Amstell, Al Murray, Milton Jones, Mark Thomas, Robin Ince, We Are Klang, Bill Bailey, Jerry Sadowitz, Russell Howard and Richard Herring. Premieres held at the theatre include ''The Westwoods'' by Alan Ayckbourn, ''Between The Lines'' by Paul Todd and ''Blue Jam'' by Chris Morris. ''Kafka's Dick'' by Alan Bennett, was rewritten by Bennett for performance at the Etcetera. Selected Productions * ''Kafka's Dick'' by Alan Bennett, rewritten by him for performance at the Etcetera * ''Blue Jam'' by Chris Morris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Edgar (playwright)
David Edgar (born 26 February 1948) is a British playwright and writer who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio and television around the world, making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in Great Britain.Dictionary of Literary Biography excerpt at Bookrags.com He was resident playwright at the in 1974–5 and has been a board member there since 1985. Awarded a Fellow in Creative Writing at |
Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and further at the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and the London School of Film Technique. He began his career as a theatre director and playwright in the mid-1960s, before transitioning to making televised plays and films for BBC Television in the 1970s and '80s. Leigh is known for his lengthy rehearsal and improvisation techniques with actors to build characters and narrative for his films. His purpose is to capture reality and present "emotional, subjective, intuitive, instinctive, vulnerable films." His films and stage plays, according to critic Michael Coveney, "comprise a distinctive, homogenous body of work which stands comparison with anyone's in the British theatre and cinema over the same period." Leigh's most notable works include the black comedy-drama ''Naked'' (1993), for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Spencer (journalist)
Charles Spencer (born 4 March 1955) is a British journalist. He was the chief drama critic of ''The Daily Telegraph'' from 1991 to 2014, having joined the paper in 1988. On 1 September 2014, it was announced that he had decided to take early retirement, and his final review for the paper appeared on the same day. He was educated at Charterhouse and Balliol College, Oxford. He began his career in journalism at the ''Surrey Advertiser'', and subsequently wrote for the London ''Evening Standard'', ''The Stage'' and ''Television Today'', before joining the ''Telegraph''. He won "Critic of the Year" in the 1999 British Press Awards. He has written three crime novels: ''I Nearly Died'' (1994), ''Full Personal Service'' (1996) and ''Under the Influence'' (2000). In 2006, Compton Miller of ''The Independent'' wrote in a profile: "This convivial ex-alcoholic is best remembered for his description of Nicole Kidman's nude scene in '' The Blue Room'' as 'pure theatrical Viagra'." In a rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas De Jongh
Nicholas de Jongh is a British writer, theatre critic and playwright. He served as the senior drama critic of the ''Evening Standard'' from 1991 to 2009. Prior to that, he had worked for ''The Guardian'' for almost 20 years. In 2008, de Jongh successfully made the transition from critic to playwright when his play ''Plague Over England'' was staged at the Finborough Theatre in Earl's Court. Set in 1950s England, the play takes a look back at the arrest of the actor John Gielgud for homosexual soliciting at the height of his fame. The play was an instant hit and sold out for its run at the Finborough. In 2009, the play transferred to the West End. Following the success of his first play, he resigned from his post at the ''Evening Standard'' to pursue a full-time writing career. He has also written two books: ''Not in Front of the Audience'' (1992), a study of the depiction of homosexuality in English drama, and ''Politics, Pruderies and Perversions'' (2000), a history of Briti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Supple
Timothy Supple (born 24 September 1962) is a British born, award-winning international theatre director. He is the son of the academic Barry Supple. Career Supple has directed and adapted theatre in London and the UK as well as across the world in a wide range of languages - including in Europe, India, North Africa and the near East, Iran, Turkey, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Russia and the post Soviet States, and North and South America. In the UK he has worked regularly at the Royal National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company and was Artistic Director of the Young Vic from 1993-2000 and founding co-Artistic Director of Dash Arts from 2005-2019, creating theatre with artists internationally. He launched his new company, Supple Productions, in 2020. UK Theatre work At the Young Vic he directed ''A Servant to Two Masters'' (RSC co-production: national & international tour & West End), ''As I Lay Dying'', ''Twelfth Night'', ''Blood Wedding'', ''The Jungle Book'', ''G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Bank
The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean in Western Asia that forms the main bulk of the Palestinian territories. It is bordered by Jordan and the Dead Sea to the east and by Israel (see Green Line (Israel), Green Line) to the south, west, and north. Under Israeli occupation of the West Bank, an Israeli military occupation since 1967, its area is split into 165 Palestinian enclaves, Palestinian "islands" that are under total or partial civil administration by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), and 230 Israeli settlements into which Israeli law in the West Bank settlements, Israeli law is "pipelined". The West Bank includes East Jerusalem. It initially emerged as a Jordanian-occupied territory after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, before being Jordani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Arabian Nights
''One Thousand and One Nights'' ( ar, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, italic=yes, ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the ''Arabian Nights'', from the first English-language edition (), which rendered the title as ''The Arabian Nights' Entertainment''. The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central and South Asia, and North Africa. Some tales trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Egyptian, Sanskrit, Persian, and Mesopotamian literature. Many tales were originally folk stories from the Abbasid and Mamluk eras, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work ( fa, هزار افسان, lit. ''A Thousand Tales''), which in turn relied partly on Indian elements. Common to all the editions of the ''Nights'' is the framing device of the story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commedia Dell'arte
(; ; ) was an early form of professional theatre, originating from Italian theatre, that was popular throughout Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries. It was formerly called Italian comedy in English and is also known as , , and . Characterized by masked "types", was responsible for the rise of actresses such as Isabella Andreini and improvised performances based on sketches or scenarios. A , such as ''The Tooth Puller'', is both scripted and improvised. Characters' entrances and exits are scripted. A special characteristic of is the , a joke or "something foolish or witty", usually well known to the performers and to some extent a scripted routine. Another characteristic of is pantomime, which is mostly used by the character Arlecchino, now better known as Harlequin. The characters of the usually represent fixed social types and stock characters, such as foolish old men, devious servants, or military officers full of false bravado. The characters are exaggerated " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Sharpe
Thomas Ridley Sharpe (30 March 1928 – 6 June 2013) was an English satirical novelist, best known for his '' Wilt'' series, as well as ''Porterhouse Blue'' and ''Blott on the Landscape,'' all three of which were adapted for television. Life Sharpe was born in Holloway, London, and brought up in Croydon. Sharpe's father, the Reverend George Coverdale Sharpe, was a Unitarian minister who was active in far-right politics in the 1930s. He was chairman of the Acton and Ealing branch of The Link, and a member of the Nordic League. He declared that he hated Jews "in the sense that he hated all corruption". Sharpe initially shared some of his father's views, but was horrified on seeing films of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. University of Cambridge Sharpe was educated at Bloxham School, on which he based Groxbourne in ''Vintage Stuff'', followed by Lancing College. He then did national service in the Royal Marines before being admitted to Pembroke College, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermione Gulliford
Hermione Valentine Gulliford is an English actress, born in Somerset. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 1994. She has worked in the theatre, appearing in ''The Merchant of Venice'', ''Othello'', and ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' with the Royal Shakespeare Company and as Lady Capulet in ''Romeo and Juliet'' at Shakespeare's Globe in London in 2019.Programme for ''Romeo and Juliet'' - Shakespeare's Globe - 6 March 2019 - Glenn Christodoulou Collection Television credits include one episode of ''The IT Crowd'' and the roles of Kim in '' Oktober'', Sophie in ''Jane Eyre'', Hermione Trumpington-Bonnet in '' Monarch of the Glen'', Carol Emerson in ''Heartbeat'', and a recurring role as Elizabeth Addis in the final series of ''Foyle's War'' (2015). On 2 April 2013, she appeared as neurosurgeon Roxanna MacMillan in ''Holby City ''Holby City'' (stylised on-screen as HOLBY CIY) is a British medical drama television series that aired weekly on BBC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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