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Chariots Of Fire (play)
''Chariots of Fire'' is a 2012 stage adaptation of the 1981 Oscar-winning film of the same name. Production of the Olympic-themed play, which opened at London's Hampstead Theatre 9 May 2012 and transferred to the West End on 23 June 2012, was partially inspired by the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Overview The ''Chariots of Fire'' adaptation for the stage was written by playwright Mike Bartlett, and Edward Hall directed the play. It starred Jack Lowden as Scottish missionary Eric Liddell, and James McArdle as Jewish Cambridge student Harold Abrahams. For the production, stage designer Miriam Buether transformed the entire theatre into an Olympic stadium, so that audiences had the experience of being in the Olympic stands. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mike Bartlett (playwright)
Michael Frederick Bartlett (born 7 October 1980) is an English playwright and screenwriter for film and TV series. His 2015 psychological thriller TV series, ''Doctor Foster (TV series), Doctor Foster,'' starring Suranne Jones, won the New Drama award from 21st National Television Awards, National Television Awards. Bartlett also won Best Writer from the Broadcast Press Guild Awards. A BBC TV Film of Bartlett's play ''King Charles III (film), King Charles III'' was broadcast in May 2017 and while critically acclaimed, generated some controversy. Early life Bartlett was born on 7 October 1980 in Oxford, England. He attended Abingdon School, then studied English and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds. Career Early work In July 2005, Bartlett took part in the Old Vic's Old Vic New Voices, New Voices 24 Hour Plays, in which plays had to be written and performed in 24 hours. This culminated in the performance of his play ''Comfort''. His radio play ''Not Talking'' was broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Miriam Buether
Miriam Buether is a German stage designer who primarily works in London theatre. She was born in Germany and studied stage design at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design in London and costume design at the Akademie für Kostüm Design in Hamburg. Her design work includes the West End musical ''Sunny Afternoon''. Her awards include: * 2025 - Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play for Stranger Things: The First Shadow * 2024 - Olivier Award for Best Set Design for Stranger Things: The First Shadow * 2018 - ''Evening Standard'' Theatre Award for Best Design for ''The Jungle'' * 2012 - Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Designer for ''Wild Swans'' * 2010 - ''Evening Standard'' Theatre Award for Best Design for ''Sucker Punch'' and ''Earthquakes in London'' * 2008 - Hospital Club Creative Award for Theatre * 2004–05 - Critics' Award for Theatre in Scotland for '' The Wonderful World of Dissocia'' * 1999 - Linbury Prize for Stage Design for Rambert Dance Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sybil Evers
Sybil Marjorie Evers (19 June 1904 – 24 June 1963) was an English singer and actress. She performed in operettas, operas and plays in London from the early 1920s through the late 1930s, including on BBC radio and television. She married Olympic champion runner Harold Abrahams. Early life and education Evers was born and raised in Rugby, Warwickshire. Her father Claude was a housemaster at the Rugby School for boys. Her mother Jessie was a talented water-colourist and instilled a love for the arts in Sybil, who quickly became interested in musical comedy, producing playlets and composing tunes as a child.Ryan, p. 188. Evers trained as a singer at the Royal College of Music.Ryan, p. 189. Career Evers made her professional stage debut on 9 July 1924, as Susan in Ralph Vaughan Williams' '' Hugh the Drover'', a romantic ballad opera in two acts, at the Parry Opera Theatre. In 1927, at Daly's Theatre, she was Nixie in a single performance of ''The Ladder'', a musical fantasy. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nicholas Woodeson
Nicholas Robin Frank Woodeson (born 30 November 1949) is an English film, television and theatre actor, and Drama Desk and Olivier award nominee. Early life and education Woodeson was born in Sudan and grew up in Haifa, Israel. He later moved to England, where he started performing at prep school in Sussex, and Marlborough College. He read English at the University of Sussex,and became involved in student drama productions, where he met Michael Attenborough, Jim Carter, and Andy de la Tour. He also participated in the 1970 National Student Drama Festival. Next was a season in rep at the Lyceum Theatre, Crewe, after deciding not to pursue an academic career. He won a scholarship to RADA (1972–1974). Career Theatre Woodeson's first work after drama school was a season at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool (1974–75), in a company that included Jonathan Pryce (artistic director), Julie Walters, Pete Postlethwaite and Bill Nighy. He has worked in regional theatre in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, commonly known as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of the wealthiest. In 1557, it was refounded by John Caius, an alumnus and English physician. The college has been attended by many students who have gone on to significant accomplishment, including fifteen Nobel Prize winners, the second-largest number of any Oxbridge college. Several streets in the city, including Harvey Road, Glisson Road, and Gresham Road, are named after Gonville and Caius alumni. The college and its masters have been influential in the development of the university, including in the founding of other colleges, including Trinity Hall and Darwin College and providing land on Sidgwick Site on which the Faculty of Law was built. History The college was founded in 1348 as Gonville Hall by Edmund Gonville ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Simon Williams (actor)
Simon Williams (born 16 June 1946) is a British actor known for playing James Bellamy in the period drama '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. Frequently playing upper middle class or aristocratic upper class roles, he is also known for playing Charles Cartwright in the sitcom '' Don't Wait Up'' and Charles Merrick in medical drama ''Holby City''. Since 2014, he has played the character of Justin Elliott in the long-running BBC Radio 4 series ''The Archers''. Early life and education Simon Williams was born in Windsor, Berkshire, Windsor in 1946. His parents were the actor Hugh Williams and the actress and model Margaret Vyner. His sister Polly, an actress, married his ''Don't Wait Up'' co-star and friend Nigel Havers. She died in 2004. His brother is the poet Hugo Williams. Williams was educated at Harrow School. He trained in Repertory theatre, repertory at Worthing, Birmingham and Bath, Somerset, Bath, and later joined the Theatre Workshop. Career Williams has appeared on stage in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at Oxford or Cambridge. Trinity has some of the most distinctive architecture in Cambridge with its Trinity Great Court, Great Court said to be the largest enclosed courtyard in Europe. Academically, Trinity performs exceptionally as measured by the Tompkins Table (the annual unofficial league table of Cambridge colleges), coming top from 2011 to 2017, and regaining the position in 2024. Members of Trinity have been awarded 34 Nobel Prizes out of the 121 received by members of the University of Cambridge (more than any other Oxford or Cambridge college). Members of the college have received four Fields Medals, one Turing Award and one Abel Prize. Trinity alumni include Francis Bacon, six British Prime Minister of the United Kingdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nickolas Grace
Nickolas Andrew Halliwell Grace (born 21 November 1947) is an English actor notable for his roles on television, including Anthony Blanche in ''Brideshead Revisited'' (1979-1981), and the Sheriff of Nottingham in ''Robin of Sherwood'' (1984–1986). Other credits include '' Survivors'' (1975), '' The Professionals'' (1980), '' Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story'' (1987), '' Salome's Last Dance'' (1988), '' Birds of a Feather'' (1989), '' The Green Man'' (1990), '' Evita'' (1996), '' The Hunchback'' (1997), ''Merlin'' (1998), '' Ian Fleming: Bondmaker'' (2005), ''My Family'' (2008), ''Doctor Who'' (2011), and ''Killing Eve'' (2019). Early life Grace was educated at the King's School, Chester and Forest School, Walthamstow. He trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Career He made his theatrical debut in weekly rep in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex in 1969, and appeared in Trevor Peacock's ''Erb'' later that year, which transferred to the Strand Theatre in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Douglas Lowe (athlete)
Douglas Gordon Arthur Lowe (7 August 1902 – 30 March 1981) was a British double Olympic Games champion, winning gold medals in 1924 and 1928. On both occasions he set British 800-metres records of Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres, 1:52.4 and Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics - Men's 800 metres, 1:51.8 respectively, the latter also being an Olympic record. Biography Born in Manchester, Douglas Lowe first attended Harrow School, Harrow but moved at the age of 14 to Highgate School, where unusually he was made Head girl and head boy, Head Boy for two years before leaving in July 1921. An all-round school sportsman, he excelled as a Middle distance track event, middle distance runner, winning the Public Schools' 880 Yard, yd (805 m) title in 1920. Later, at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied medieval and modern languages, he played football and won the 880 yd (805 m) against University of Oxford, Oxford in 1922 and 1923, and both the mile ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
David Cecil, 6th Marquess Of Exeter
David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, KCMG, KStJ (9 February 1905 – 21 October 1981), styled Lord Burghley from birth until 1956 and also known as David Burghley, was an English athlete, sports official, peer, and Conservative Party politician. He won the gold medal in the 400 m hurdles at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Early life Born near Stamford, Lincolnshire, as heir to the 5th Marquess of Exeter, Lord Burghley was educated at Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland, Ludgrove School, Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, he was president of the Cambridge University Athletics Club and a member of the Pitt Club. Athlete A notable runner at school and at Cambridge, he continued with his athletics and won the British AAA championships in 120 yd from 1929 to 1931 and the hurdles from 1926 to 1928, and again in 1930 and 1932. Burghley made his Olympic debut in Paris in 1924, when he was eliminated in the first round of the 110 metre hurd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gielgud Theatre
The Gielgud Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue, at the corner of Rupert Street, in the City of Westminster, London. The house currently has 994 seats on three levels. The theatre was designed by W. G. R. Sprague and opened on 27 December 1906 as the Hicks Theatre, named after Seymour Hicks, for whom it was built. The first play at the theatre was a hit musical called '' The Beauty of Bath'' co-written by Hicks. Another big success was '' A Waltz Dream'' in 1908. In 1909, the American impresario Charles Frohman became manager of the theatre and renamed the house the Globe Theatre, a name that it retained for 85 years. '' Call It a Day'' opened in 1935 and ran for 509 performances, a long run for the slow inter-war years. '' There's a Girl in My Soup'', opening in 1966, ran for almost three years, a record for the theatre that was not surpassed until '' Daisy Pulls It Off'' opened in April 1983 to run for 1,180 performances. Refurbished in 1987, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
London Evening Standard
The ''London Standard'', formerly the ''Evening Standard'' (1904–2024) and originally ''The Standard'' (1827–1904), is a long-established regional newspaper published weekly and distributed free of charge in London, England. It is printed in tabloid format, and also has an online edition. In October 2009, after being bought by Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev, the paper ended a 180-year history of paid circulation and multiple editions every day, and became a free newspaper publishing a single print edition every weekday, doubling its circulation as part of a change in its business plan. On 29 May 2024, the newspaper announced that it would reduce print publication to once weekly, after nearly 200 years of daily publication, as it had become unprofitable. Daily publication ended on 19 September 2024. The first weekly edition was published on 26 September 2024 under the new name of ''The London Standard''. History From 1827 to 2009 The newspaper was founded by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
