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The York Realist
''The York Realist'' is a 2001 play by Peter Gill. It was premiered at the Lowry in November 2001 before moving to the Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Court Theatre in January 2002 by English Touring Theatre, with Gill himself directing. It transferred to the Strand Theatre in March 2002. Nick Curtis and Jessie Thompson writing for the Evening Standard, listed ''The York Realist'' as one of the 50 Best Plays of the 21st century. Plot It is set in the early 1960s and revolves around George (a Yorkshire farm labourer involved in a production of the ''York Mystery Plays'' who withdraws from the production), John (the production's shy assistant director who tries to convince him to come back), the love affair between them, and the clash between regional and London culture. Reception Reviews of the original production ranged from "a rare blast of reality"the ''Guardian'' to a "stunningly boring slab of dour social realism"the ''Telegraph''. The play was nominated for Best New Play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Play (theatre)
A play is a work of drama, usually consisting mostly of dialogue between characters and intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. The writer of a play is called a playwright. Plays are performed at a variety of levels, from London's West End and Broadway in New York City – which are the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world – to regional theatre, to community theatre, as well as university or school productions. A stage play is a play performed and written to be performed on stage rather than broadcast or made into a movie. Stage plays are those performed on any stage before an audience. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference as to whether their plays were performed or read. The term "play" can refer to both the written texts of playwrights and to their complete theatrical performance. Comedy Comedies are plays which are designed to be humorous. Comedies are often filled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline O'Neill
Caroline O'Neill (born in Blackpool, England) is an English television and theatre actress. She is best known for her role as Andrea Clayton in ''Coronation Street.'' In a lengthy career, her television roles include Win Thursday in '' Endeavour'', as well as an appearance in its sister programme ''Lewis,'' and as Janice Maloney in '' Queer as Folk''. On stage, she appeared in the 2006 Royal Shakespeare Company revival of Arthur Miller’s ''The Crucible'' and in Peter Gill’s ''The York Realist''. Television * ''Coronation Street'' (29 episodes, 1985) as Andrea Clayton * ''Grange Hill'' (4 episodes, 1991) as Susan * Dead Romantic (TV Film, 1992) as Housewife * Body & Soul (4 episodes, 1993) as Leila * ''Chiller'': Here Comes the Mirror Man (TV Film, 1995) as Estate agent * ''A Touch of Frost'' (1 episode, 1997) as Maggie Hoxton * '' Queer as Folk'' (9 episodes, 1999–2000) as Janice Maloney * ''Coronation Street'' (11 episodes, 2000) as Andrea Clayton * '' Waking the Dead'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesley Nicol (actor)
Lesley Nicol (born 7 August 1953) is an English actress and a three-time SAG Award winner in the ''Best Cast in a Drama Series'' category for her role as Beryl Patmore in the ITV and PBS drama TV series ''Downton Abbey''. She also starred in the 2019 feature film ''Downton Abbey''. Early life Nicol is a graduate of Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Career Nicol's television roles include Mrs. Beaver in the BBC adaptation of ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'', the Queen Giant in ''The Silver Chair'' and as Henrietta Beecham in the 2019 ITV historical drama'' Beecham House''. She made multiple appearances on ABC's ''The Catch'' in a recurring role playing the matriarch of a London gangland family and also guest-starred on episodes of Amazon Prime Video's ''The Boys'', The CW's ''Supernatural'' (where she played a variation of the witch from ''Hansel and Gretel''), CBS's reboot of ''The Odd Couple'', ABC's ''Once Upon a Time'' and TVLand's ''Hot in Cleveland'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Bailey
Jonathan Stuart Bailey (born 25 April 1988) is an English actor. Known for his comedic, dramatic, and musical roles on stage and screen, he is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award and a nomination for a Evening Standard Theatre Award. Bailey began his career as a child actor in Royal Shakespeare Company productions and by eight was performing as Gavroche in a West End production of ''Les Misérables''. He has since starred in contemporary plays such as ''South Downs'' in 2012, ''The York Realist'' in 2018, and '' Cock'' in 2022; in classical plays like the Royal National Theatre's ''Othello'' in 2013 and Chichester Festival Theatre's ''King Lear'' in 2017; as well as in musicals, namely the London revival of ''The Last Five Years'' in 2016 and the West End gender-swapped revival of ''Company'' for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical in 2019. On screen, Bailey starred in the CBBC action-adventure series ''Leonardo'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Batt
Ben Batt (born 7 February 1986) is an English actor, best known for his role as the villainous List of Shameless (British TV series) characters#Joe Pritchard, Joe Pritchard in Channel 4's comedy drama ''Shameless (UK TV series), Shameless''. He has also appeared in ''Scott & Bailey'' as DC Kevin Lumb, Alf Rutter in ''The Village (2013 TV series), The Village'' and in ''Sirens (2011 TV series), Sirens'' as Craig Scruton, the fireman. He starred as Ted Burgess in the BBC production of ''The Go-Between (2015 TV film), The Go-Between'' broadcast on 20 September 2015. Retrieved 17 September 2015. In the 2011 film ''Weekender (film), Weekender'' set within the late 1980s rave culture he played the main antagonist John Anderson. He has also had many smaller roles, such as in ''Captain America: The First ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donmar Warehouse
The Donmar Warehouse is a 251-seat, not-for-profit theatre in Covent Garden, London, England. It first opened on 18 July 1977. Sam Mendes, Michael Grandage and Josie Rourke have all served as artistic director, a post held since 2019 by Michael Longhurst. The theatre has a diverse artistic policy that includes new writing, contemporary reappraisals of European classics, British and American drama and small-scale musical theatre. As well as presenting at least six productions a year at its home in Covent Garden, every year the Donmar tours one in-house production in the UK. History Theatrical producer Donald Albery formed Donmar Productions around 1953, with the name derived from the first three letters of his name and the first three letters of his wife's middle name, Margaret. In 1961, he bought the warehouse, a building that in the 1870s had been a vat room and hops warehouse for the local brewery in Covent Garden, and in the 1920s had been used as a film studio and then th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Spreadbury-Maher
Adam Spreadbury-Maher is an Australian/Irish theatre artistic director, producer and writer. He is the founding artistic director of the Cock Tavern Theatre, OperaUpClose and The Hope Theatre, and is the current artistic director of the King's Head Theatre. Spreadbury-Maher introduced the first unionised pay agreement for actors in a pub-theatre in 2011, and in 2017 introduced the first fringe creative pay agreement and gender policy. Biography Spreadbury-Maher was born in Australia. He received his initial training as an opera singer at the Canberra School of Music. His debut directorial production of Jonathan Harvey's '' Beautiful Thing'' won Spreadbury-Maher an Australian Critics' Circle Award in 2004.GaydarNation Rainbownetwork.com. Retrieved on 28 January 2011. In 2005 Adam moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Billington (critic)
Michael Keith Billington OBE (born 16 November 1939) is a British author and arts critic. He writes for ''The Guardian'', and was the paper's chief drama critic from 1971 to 2019. Billington is "Britain's longest-serving theatre critic" and the author of biographical and critical studies relating to British theatre and the arts. He is the authorised biographer of the playwright Harold Pinter (1930–2008). Early life and education Billington was born on 16 November 1939, in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, and attended Warwick School, an independent boys' school in Warwick. He attended St Catherine's College, Oxford, from 1958 to 1961, where he studied English and was appointed theatre critic of '' Cherwell''. He graduated with a BA degree. As a member of Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS), in 1959, Billington played the Priest in '' The Birds'', by Aristophanes, his only appearance as an actor, and, in 1960, he directed a production of Eugène Ionesco's ''The Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Night Out Presents
Good Night Out Presents is one of the resident theatre companies at The Cock Tavern Theatre in London. History Good Night Out Presents was formed in August 2008 and moved to The Cock Tavern Theatre following a residency at The White Bear Theatre. The company received its first transfer when ''Studies for a Portrait'', directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher transferred for a month-long run at the Oval House Theatre. A revised production of ''Studies for a Portrait'' opened at The King's Head Theatre in March 2010 for an 8-week run and featured music by Boy George written specifically for the production. Other productions from Good Night Out Presents included Adrian Pagan’s ''The Backroom'', revived at The Cock Tavern Theatre for the first time since the play’s premiere at the Bush Theatre The Bush Theatre is located in the Passmore Edwards Public Library, Shepherd's Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It was established in 1972 as a showcase for the work of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverside Studios
Riverside Studios is an arts centre on the banks of the River Thames in Hammersmith, London, England. The venue plays host to contemporary performance, film, visual art exhibitions and television production. Having closed for redevelopment in September 2014, Riverside Studios reopened in August 2019 with one of the first television broadcasts from Studio 1 being Channel 4's UK election coverage. Film studio In 1933, a former Victorian iron foundry on Crisp Road, London, was bought by Triumph Films and converted into a relatively compact film studio with two stages and a dubbing theatre. In 1935 the studios were taken over by Julius Hagen (then owner of Twickenham Studios) with the idea of using Riverside as an overflow for making quota quickies. However, by 1937 his company had gone into liquidation. Between 1937 and 1946, the studios were owned by Jack Buchanan and produced such films as ''We'll Meet Again'' (1943) with Vera Lynn and ''The Seventh Veil'' (1945) with James Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josie Rourke
Josie Rourke (born 3 September 1976) is an English theatre and film director. She is a Vice-President of the London Library and was the artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse theatre from 2012 to 2019. In 2018, she made her feature film debut with the Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated historical drama ''Mary Queen of Scots'', starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie. Early life and education Rourke was born in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester, to Vivienne and Sean Rourke. She has one brother, Damian. She attended St Mary's RC Primary School, Swinton, St Gilbert's RC Primary School, Winton, St Patrick's RC Secondary School, Eccles, and Eccles College of Further Education. She was the first person in the history of her school to attend Cambridge University, where she studied English at New Hall, now Murray Edwards College. She began directing for theatre at Cambridge and, amongst other credits, was the first woman in history to direct the Footlights Pantomime, which was co-w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Mercer
Ian Cameron Mercer (born 10 July 1961) is an English actor. He is known for playing Gary Mallett in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' from 1995 to 2000, having previously appeared in 1987 as Pete Jackson. His other television credits include ''Brookside'' (1982–83), '' Cracker'' (1993), and ''The Street'' (2007). Career Mercer was born in Oldham, Lancashire. On leaving school, Mercer trained as an electrical engineer but decided to become an actor when he became an assistant stage manager at the Oldham Coliseum in 1979. His first television appearance was as Mile in ''Starting Out'' (1982), a series made by ATV for schools and written by Grazyna Monvid. Mercer went on to work in such stage productions as '' Bent'', ''Spend Spend Spend'', ''Saturday Night, Sunday Morning'', '' Billy Liar'', ''Stop The Children's Laughter'', ''Welcome Home'', ''Romeo and Juliet'', ''The Fancy Man'', ''The York Realist'', ''Beauty and the Beast'' and ''Revengers Tragedy''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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