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Trestle Theatre
Trestle Theatre Company is a professional theatre company specialising in mask and physical theatre. Currently based in a renovated chapel in the city of St Albans in the county of Hertfordshire, England. The company creates its own masks, performances, workshops and training, sending the masks nationally and internationally. History Beginnings Trestle Theatre Company was founded in 1981 by Sally Cook, Alan Riley and Toby Wilsher, three graduates from the BA Performance Arts course of Middlesex Polytechnic, and the support of John Wright, their course leader. Their initial plan was to tour the country with a pop-up trestle stage at markets and local fairs, following the blueprints of many internationally renowned ''Commedia Dell'Arte'' groups (hence the name trestle). However, this mode of performance proved impractical, but the name stuck to symbolize the group's original ambitions. Joined later by Joff Chafer, the company continued to tour nationally, and eventually internationall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lola Montez
Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld (17 February 1821 – 17 January 1861), better known by the stage name Lola Montez (), was an Irish dancer and actress who became famous as a Spanish dancer, courtesan, and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made her ''Gräfin von Landsfeld'' (Countess of Landsfeld). At the start of the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states, she was forced to flee. She proceeded to the United States via Austria, Switzerland, France and London, returning to her work as an entertainer and lecturer. Biography Early life Eliza Rosanna Gilbert was born into an Anglo-Irish family, the daughter of Elizabeth ("Eliza") Oliver, who was the daughter of Charles Silver Oliver, a former High Sheriff of Cork and member of Parliament for Kilmallock in County Limerick, Ireland. Their residence was Castle Oliver. In December 1818, Eliza's parents, Ensign Edward Gilbert and Eliza Oliver, met when he arrived with the 25th Regiment. They were married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Garcia (musician)
Ricardo Garcia is a Spanish guitarist, leader of the group ''Flamenco Flow'', who is known for his interpretations of Flamenco blended with other musical forms. Birth and education Garcia was born in France in 1966 of an Andalusian family. Both his father's family and his mother's family moved to France during the Franco era. His family was musical, and he was taught to play guitar by his uncle Antonio when he was very young. He learned to accompany his mother singing Maria del Carmen. Garcia appeared in his first concert at the age of nine, and since then he performed alone or with his aunt and uncle in all parts of France. In 1988 he was selected to represent France on a cultural tour of Uruguay and Argentina sponsored by the Casa de America Latina. Garcia studied flamenco under Merengue de Cordoba, Paco Serrano and Jose Antonio Rodrigues Munoz between the ages of 15 and 18, while also studying classical guitar. During this period, he fronted a Pat Metheny jazz concert in Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Richardson
Esther Richardson (born 1974) is a British theatre director and script editor. She directed an adaptation of Stephen Poliakoff's ''Breaking the Silence'', and ''A Pair of Pinters.'' In 2016, she was appointed the artistic director of Pilot Theatre. Biography Richardson was born in Manchester. She attended Bristol University, where she studied English. She earned her master's in theatre arts from Goldsmiths, University of London. She began working with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a literary assistant in 2000. She began working on the Theatre Writing Partnership (TWP), which allowed her to discover new play writers. TWP won the Peggy Ramsay award for Momentum in 2004. In 2007, she quit working with TWP, and began working with Derby LIVE, Nottingham Playhouse, Royal and Derngate, the Soho Theatre and the Cast Theater in Doncaster, directing its first show, ''The Glee Club'' in 2013. In 2011, Richardson and Andy Barrett created ''Skybus'', which is a play that took place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Reynolds (writer)
Anna Reynolds (born 1 June 1968) is a British novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. She is the author of ''Tightrope'' (1991) and ''Jordan'', which was voted "Best Play of 1992" at the Writers Guild Awards, and co-author of ''The Winding Sheet'', a film that won a Silver Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival. Her first novel, ''Insanity'', was published in 1996.Anna Reynolds' webpage ''writewords.co.uk''. Publications Reynolds has had 10 plays professionally produced, including ''Jordan'', ''Red'' (Clean Break Theatre Company), ''Precious'' (West Yorkshire Playhouse), ''Wild Things'' (Salisbury Playhouse), ''Look At Me'' ( Theatre Centre/Mercury Theatre), ''Deep Joy'' (Mercury Theatre), ''Skin Hunger'' (Time Out Critics Choice ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverley Naidoo
Beverley Naidoo is a South African author of children's books who lives in the UK. Her first three novels featured life in South Africa where she lived until her twenties. She has also written a biography of the trade unionist Neil Aggett. ''The Other Side of Truth'', published by Puffin in 2000, is a story about Nigerian political refugees in England. For that work she won the annual Carnegie Medal (literary award), Carnegie Medal from the CILIP, Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. Naidoo won the Josette Frank Award twice – in 1986 for ''Journey to Jo'burg'' and in 1997 for ''No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa''. Biography Beverley Naidoo was born on 21 May 1943 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She grew up under apartheid laws that gave privilege to white children. Black children were sent to separate, inferior schools and their families were told where they could live, work and travel. Apartheid denied all children the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Midsummer Night's Dream
''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a comedy written by William Shakespeare 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers. Another follows a group of six amateur actors rehearsing the play which they are to perform before the wedding. Both groups find themselves in a forest inhabited by fairies who manipulate the humans and are engaged in their own domestic intrigue. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular and is widely performed. Characters * Theseus—Duke of Athens * Hippolyta—Queen of the Amazons * Egeus—father of Hermia * Hermia—daughter of Egeus, in love with Lysander * Lysander—in love with Hermia * Demetrius—suitor to Hermia * Helena—in love with Demetrius * Philostrate—Master of the Revels * Peter Quince—a carpenter * Nick Bottom—a weaver * Francis Flute—a bellows-mender * Tom Snout—a tinker * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Nunnery
Lizzie Nunnery (born 1982, Liverpool) is an English playwright and singer-songwriter. She has participated in the Future Perfect scheme for new playwrights run by Paines Plough. Co-Artistic Director of Almanac Arts, Lizzie’s first play ''Intemperance'' (Liverpool Everyman 2007) was set among Liverpool’s Irish-Scandinavian underclass. It was awarded five stars by the Guardian and shortlisted for the Meyer-Whitworth Award. She co-wrote ''Unprotected'', winner of the Amnesty International Award for Freedom of Expression (Everyman/Traverse Edinburgh). ''The Swallowing Dark'' (Liverpool Playhouse Studio, Theatre503, Inis Nua Theatre Philadelphia USA), was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award. Her work also includes ''Narvik'' (Box of Tricks UK tour 2017, Nordland Theatre Norwegian tour 2019), a play with songs dealing with the Narvik campaign and the Arctic convoys of World War II. ''Narvik'' won Best New Play at the UK Theatre Awards 2017. Other recent work include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anupama Chandrasekhar
Anupama Chandrasekhar is an Indian playwright born and based in Chennai. She is best known for her play ''The Father and the Assassin'', which earned her a nomination for the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Best Play and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Career Chandrasekhar's plays have been staged at leading venues in India, Europe, Canada, and the US. She was the National Theatre, London's first international playwright-in-residence from 2016 to 2017, and was formerly a journalist with the Hindu Business Line. Her play ''Free Outgoing'', directed by Indhu Rubasingham premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2007. It was revived at the Royal Court's main theatre in Summer 2008 and travelled to the Traverse Theatre for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival the same year.Macmillan, JoyceIt’s Still A Man’s World ''Scotsman'', 11 August 2008. Chandrasekhar was a runner up for the Evening Standard Theatre Award’s Charles Wintour Prize for Most Prom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yarico
''Yarico'' is a musical based on a 17th-century story of the Amerindian woman – Yarico, who saved the life of, and subsequently fell in love with a British merchant Thomas Inkle, who then sold her into slavery on the island of Barbados – Inkle and Yarico. It was first recorded by Richard Ligon, in his book entitled “The True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes” (1657). Ever since its first staging by George Colman the Younger in 1787, the story became hugely popular inspiring writers across Europe as well as in America., to produce a number of different treatments of it The music is by James McConnel, the book and lyrics are by Carl Miller with additional lyrics by Paul Leigh. The musical played at the London Theatre Workshop from February 17, to March 28, 2015 Synopsis Early 1700s, on an island in The Antilles ACT ONE Early 1700s, on an island in The Antilles. Yarico, a young Amerindian woman, gazes out to sea, longing for something to change her monotonous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media. The fables originally belonged to oral tradition and were not collected for some three centuries after Aesop's death. By that time, a variety of other stories, jokes and proverbs were being ascribed to him, although some of that material was from sources earlier than him or came from beyond the Greek cultural sphere. The process of inclusion has continued until the present, with some of the fables unrecorded before the Late Middle Ages and others arriving from outside Europe. The process is continuous and new stories are still being added to the Aesop corpus, even when they are demonstrably more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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