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The Right Size
The Right Size was a British theatre company active from 1988 to 2006, led by Sean Foley and Hamish McColl. Their major success was ''The Play What I Wrote'', a tribute to Morecambe and Wise, and other key productions included '' Do You Come Here Often?'' and ''Ducktastic''. Early years Foley and McColl have frequently been reported as saying that they met in Paris around 1987 when they were learning to be clowns at the school of Philippe Gaulier (with both leaving after a month when they ran out of money).Brian Logan"How stupid can they get?" ''The Guardian'', 12 July 1999. Retrieved 2012-10-20.Fiachra Gibbons"The play what is breaking West End theatre records" ''The Guardian'', 22 December 2001 . Retrieved 2012-10-17.Barbara Isenberg"A One-Two Punch Line" ''Los Angeles Times'', 27 January 2002. Retrieved 2012-10-20. But it seems more likely they met earlier at Oxford Youth Theatre.Terry Grimley"Terry Grimley meets Sean Foley, co-creator of The Play What I Wrote, now playing S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Foley (director)
Sean Foley (born 21 November 1964) is a British director, writer, comedian and actor. Following early success as part of the comedy double act The Right Size and their long-running stage show ''The Play What I Wrote'', Foley has more recently become a director, including of several West End theatre, West End comedy productions. Early career and ''The Right Size'' Foley and Hamish McColl formed ''The Right Size'' in 1988.Noor Hayati"Three's The Right Size" ''New Straits Times'', 1 July 1989. Retrieved 2012-10-20. They devised and performed in the shows, with regular creative team collaborators such as director Jozef Houben, . Retrieved 2012-10-20. designer Alice Power, , ''the agency''. Retrieved 2012-10-19. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegfried And Roy
Siegfried is a German-language male given name, composed from the Germanic elements ''sig'' "victory" and ''frithu'' "protection, peace". The German name has the Old Norse cognate ''Sigfriðr, Sigfrøðr'', which gives rise to Swedish ''Sigfrid'' (hypocorisms ''Sigge, Siffer''), Danish/Norwegian ''Sigfred''. In Norway, ''Sigfrid'' is given as a feminine name. official statistics at Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no; Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/ The name is medieval and was borne by the legendary dragon-slayer also known as . It did survive in marginal use into the modern period, but after 1876 it enjoyed renewed popularity d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Hall (playwright)
Lee Hall (born 20 September 1966) is an English playwright, television writer, screenwriter, and lyricist. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the film ''Billy Elliot'' (2000) and the book and lyrics for its adaptation as a stage musical of the same name. In addition, he wrote the play '' The Pitmen Painters'' (2007), and the screenplay for the film ''Rocketman'' (2019). Early life Hall was born in 1966 in Newcastle upon Tyne, the son of a house painter and decorator and a housewife. He was educated at Benfield School in Walkergate. As a youth he went to Wallsend Young People's Theatre along with Deka Walmsley, Mark Scott and Trevor Fox. The latter actor later appeared in both ''Billy Elliot'' and ''The Pitmen Painters''. Hall attended Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature and was taught by poet Paul Muldoon. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathryn Hunter
Aikaterini Hadjipateras ( el, Αικατερίνη Χατζηπατέρας; born 9 April 1957), known professionally as Kathryn Hunter, is an American-born British actress and theatre director, known for her appearances as Arabella Figg in the '' ''Harry Potter'' film series'', and as Eedy Karn on the Disney+ ''Star Wars'' spinoff series, '' Andor''. Hunter was born in New York to Greek parents, and was raised in England. She trained at RADA where she is now an associate, and regularly directs student productions. Career Stage work In her stage work, Hunter is particularly associated with physical theatre, having been described as a "virtuoso physical performer." She has worked with renowned companies in that field including Shared Experience and Complicité. She won an Olivier Award in 1991 for playing the millionairess in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's '' The Visit''. Critics have noted Hunter's unusual physical presence and her range. Charles Spencer of ''The Telegraph'' wrote, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mr Puntila And His Man Matti
''Mr Puntila and his Man Matti'' (german: Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti) is an epic comedy by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It was written in 1940 and first performed in 1948. The story describes the aristocratic land-owner Puntila's relationship to his servant, Matti, as well as his daughter, Eva, whom he wants to marry off to an Attaché. Eva herself loves Matti and so Puntila has to decide whether to marry his daughter to his driver or to an Attaché, while he also deals with a drinking problem. In his essay "Notes on the Folk Play" (written in 1940), Brecht warns that " naturalistic acting is not enough in this case" and recommends an approach to staging that draws on the ''Commedia dell'Arte''. The central relationship between Mr Puntila and Matti—in which Puntila is warm, friendly and loving when drunk, but cold, cynical and penny-pinching when sober—echoes the relationship between the Tramp and the Millionaire in Charlie Chaplin's ''City Lights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Olivier Award For Best Entertainment
The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Family Show is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976, and renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor and director Laurence Olivier. The award was introduced in 1991, as Best Entertainment, was renamed Best Entertainment and Family in 2012, and changed to its current name in 2020when "Entertainment" was moved to join Best Comedy Play on the renamed Best Entertainment or Comedy Play. Winners and nominees 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also * Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience * Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event References * External links * {{OlivierAward Entertainment Entertainment Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Total Theatre Award Winners
Total Theatre Awards were first presented in 1997 and are given annually at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to companies excelling in devised theatre, live art, visual performance, mime, puppetry, physical theatre, experimental theatre, dance, clown, circus, street, immersive, outdoor, site specific performance. They are one of a number of awards open to companies/artists presenting work at the festival. 1997 *Award for Most Innovative Overall Production: The Right Size – '' Do You Come Here Often?'' *Audience's Choice Award: Acrobat – ''Acrobat'' *Award for Most Innovative International Production: DEREVO – ''Red Zone'' *Award for Best Use of Design: Co Yvette Bozsik – ''Hommage à Mary Wigman'' *Award for Most Innovative Touring Production: Fecund Theatre – ''27'' *Award for Best Newcomer: K486 – ''The Trial'' *Lifetime Achievement Award: Steven Berkoff 1999 *Award for Best Overall Production: Anonymous Society – ''Jacques Brel'' * Award for Best Newcomer: M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaudeville Theatre
The Vaudeville Theatre is a West End theatre on the Strand in the City of Westminster. As the name suggests, the theatre held mostly vaudeville shows and musical revues in its early days. It opened in 1870 and was rebuilt twice, although each new building retained elements of the previous structure. The current building opened in 1926, and the capacity is now 690 seats. Rare ''thunder drum'' and ''lightning sheets'', together with other early stage mechanisms, survive in the theatre. History Origins The theatre was designed by prolific architect C. J. Phipps, and decorated in a Romanesque style by George Gordon. It opened on 16 April 1870 with Andrew Halliday's comedy, ''For Love Or Money'' and a burlesque, ''Don Carlos or the Infante in Arms''. A notable innovation was the concealed footlights, which would shut off if the glass in front of them was broken. The owner, William Wybrow Robertson, had run a failing billiard hall on the site but saw more opportunity in theatre. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyric Hammersmith
The Lyric Theatre, also known as the Lyric Hammersmith, is a theatre on Lyric Square, off King Street, Hammersmith, London."About the Lyric" ''Lyric'' official website. Retrieved 9 May 2008. Background The Lyric Theatre was originally a music hall established in 1888 on Bradmore Grove, Hammersmith. Success as an entertainment venue led it to be rebuilt and enlarged on the same site twice, firstly in 1890 and then in 1895 by the English theatrical architect . The 1895 reopening, as The New Lyric Opera House, was accompanied by an opening address by the famous actress |
Purcell Room
The Purcell Room is a concert and performance venue which forms part of the Southbank Centre, one of central London's leading cultural complexes. It is named after the 17th century England, English composer Henry Purcell and has 370 seats. The Purcell Room has hosted a wide range of chamber music, jazz, mime artist, mime and poetry recitals. In the context of the Southbank Centre it is the smallest of a set of three venues, the other two being the Royal Festival Hall, a large symphony hall, and the QEH, which is used for orchestral, chamber and contemporary amplified music. The Purcell Room was built at the same time as the QEH, with which it shared a common foyer building and architectural features as an example of Brutalist architecture. The focus of the building is its interior space and it makes few concessions to external decoration. From outside, even its position within Southbank Centre is not easy to discern. The QEH and Purcell Room were designed, with The Hayward, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cochrane Theatre
The Cochrane Theatre, previously known as the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, was a receiving and producing theatre situated in Holborn, London, that opened in 1964. It is now used for television filming. History The theatre opened in 1963 and was named after its founder, Jeannetta Cochrane, who was a theatre practitioner specialising in costume and scenery design at the Central School of Art and Design, now part of the University of the Arts London. Through her persistence, Cochrane persuaded the London County Council to build a theatre attached to the school that could be used as a practice space. The theatre has a traditional proscenium arch and fly tower consisting of 41 counterweight flying bars, orchestra pit and a fully functioning paint frame (a rarity in London theatres). From 1991 to 1995, Talawa Theatre Company had its home at the Cochrane Theatre. The Cochrane closed in January 2012 when Central St Martin's moved to a new site near King's Cross (unifying what had been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battersea Arts Centre
The Battersea Arts Centre ("BAC") is a performance space specialising in theatre productions. Located near Clapham Junction railway station in Battersea, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, it was formerly Battersea Town Hall. It is a Grade II* listed building. In March 2015, while a major programme of renovation works were underway, the Grand Hall was severely damaged by fire. Approximately 70% of the theatre, including the 200-capacity Council Chamber, the Scratch Bar and the Members Library, was saved from the fire and remains open. History The building, designed in 1891 by E. W. Mountford, opened in 1893 as Battersea Town Hall, the administrative headquarters of the Borough of Battersea, shortly after the borough was transferred from the county of Surrey to the newly formed County of London. It is built from Suffolk red brick and Bath stone, on the site of Jane Seniors ''Elm House'', a villa with a small wooded estate. Bertrand Russell's essay ''Why I Am Not a Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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