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The Cherub Company London
The Cherub Company London was an English theatre company, founded by Andrew Visnevski and Simon Chandler in 1973 as an ensemble of young actors, designers and composers introducing rare classics and continental plays to the stage in a style that proved unconventional and brilliantly visual. In its first twenty-five years it produced thirty plays, toured nine times in the UK, and visited twelve counties on three continents. Notable productions include: Kafka's The Trial (2002), with Rebecca Whiteman, Colin Adrian, Alexander Falkowski, William Wollen, Svein Solenes; Ten Days’ A-Maze by Jan Potocki (1997) with Rebecca Over, Jane Backlog, Christopher Gunning, Russell Kennedy, Ian Harris, Phil Dix; The Tempest (1996), with Russell Kennedy and Andrew Novell Andrew Novell (born 1968) is an English/American actor, born in Redhill, Surrey, who has worked in theatre and film in both the UK and the USA. A graduate of The Poor School (two-year acting course, 1995), he later attende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Chandler
Simon Chandler (born 1953) is a British film, television and theatre actor. He often plays senior establishment figures such as Members of Parliament and senior civil servants. Biography Born in 1953 and educated at Bedford School, Chandler's acting career began in 1976. His first film role was as Private Simmonds in Richard Attenborough's 1977 film '' A Bridge Too Far'' and he provided the voice of Merry in Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated film adaptation of ''The Lord of the Rings''. His most prominent recent film work includes roles in ''Vera Drake'' (2004), '' Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'' (2006), ''The King's Speech'' (2010) and '' The Iron Lady'' (2011). He starred as Ade Rutter in the first series of ''House of Anubis'' and he has taken leading roles in ''Judge John Deed'' and other television dramas, as well as prominent theatre roles. With an acting career spanning almost forty years, his other film and television credits include roles in ''Angels'', '' Another Bouqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include the short story "The Metamorphosis" and novels ''The Trial'' and '' The Castle''. The term ''Kafkaesque'' has entered English to describe absurd situations, like those depicted in his writing. Kafka was born into a middle-class German-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today the capital of the Czech Republic. He trained as a lawyer and after completing his legal education was employed full-time by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trial
''The Trial'' (german: Der Process, link=no, previously , and ) is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoevsky's ''Crime and Punishment'' and ''The Brothers Karamazov'', Kafka even went so far as to call Dostoevsky a blood relative. Like Kafka's two other novels, ''The Trial'' was never completed, although it does include a chapter which appears to bring the story to an intentionally abrupt ending. After Kafka's death in 1924 his friend and literary executor Max Brod edited the text for publication by Verlag Die Schmiede. The original manuscript is held at the Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach am Neckar, Germany. The first English-language translation, by Willa and Edwin Muir, was published in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Potocki
Count Jan Potocki (; 8 March 1761 – 23 December 1815) was a Polish nobleman, ethnologist, linguist, traveller and author of the Enlightenment period, whose life and exploits made him a celebrated figure in Poland. He is known chiefly for his picaresque novel, ''The Manuscript Found in Saragossa''. Born into affluent Polish nobility, Potocki lived abroad from an early age and was primarily educated in Switzerland. He frequently visited the salons of Paris and toured Europe before temporarily returning to Poland in 1778. As a soldier, he fought in Austrian ranks in the War of the Bavarian Succession, and in 1789 was appointed a military engineer in the Polish army. During his extensive voyages he actively documented prevailing customs, ongoing wars, revolutions and national awakenings, which made him a pioneer of travel literature. Fascinated by the occult, Potocki studied ancient cultures, rituals and secret societies. Simultaneously, he was a member of parliament and took part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Novell
Andrew Novell (born 1968) is an English/American actor, born in Redhill, Surrey, who has worked in theatre and film in both the UK and the USA. A graduate of The Poor School (two-year acting course, 1995), he later attended Rose Bruford College (BA Directing, 2001) and the University of East Anglia (MA Directing, 2003). He is notable for his portrayal of Richard III in the Merton Abbey Mills 1998 production of Shakespeare's ''Richard III'', and as Ariel in The Cherub Company London's touring production of ''The Tempest'' (1995), which toured throughout the UK and Europe. His film credits include the horror film ''The Curiosity'' directed by Travis Beacham Travis Beacham (born 1980) is an American screenwriter, best known for writing and co-writing the films ''Dog Days of Summer'' (2005), '' Pacific Rim'' (2013), '' Clash of the Titans'' (2010), and proposing the concept for the Amazon Prime fan ... ('' Pacific Rim'', '' Clash of the Titans''), Paul Morris's film ''Sia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Companies In London
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre artist Patrice Pav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
