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Claire Nadeau
Claire Nadeau (; born 1 June 1945) is a French actress. Theater Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nadeau, Claire French film actresses 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresses Actresses from Paris Living people 1945 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzaccio
''Lorenzaccio'' is a French Play (theatre), play of the Romantic period written by Alfred de Musset in 1834, set in 16th-century Florence, and depicting Lorenzino de' Medici, who killed Florence's tyrant, Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence, Alessandro de' Medici, his cousin. Having engaged in debaucheries to gain the Duke's confidence, he loses the trust of Florence (Italy), Florence's citizens, thus earning the insulting surname "Lorenzaccio". Though he kills Alessandro, he knows he will never return to his former state. Since opponents to the tyrant's regime fail to use Alessandro's death as a way to overthrow the dukedom and establish a republic, Lorenzo's action does not appear to aid the people's welfare. Written soon after the July revolution of 1830, at the start of the July Monarchy, when King Louis Philippe I overthrew King Charles X of France, the play contains many cynical comments on the lack of true republican sentiments in the face of violent overthrow. The pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rumors (play)
''Rumors'' is a farcical play by Neil Simon that premiered in 1988. Plot summary The play starts with Ken Gorman and his wife, Chris Gorman, at the 10th anniversary party of Charley Brock, the Deputy Mayor of New York, and his wife, Myra. Unfortunately, things are not going quite well. All the kitchen staff are gone, Myra is missing, and Charley has shot himself in the head. Chris calls Charley's doctor, but before Chris can tell him what has happened, Ken dictates that she not inform the doctor of anything that has happened, for the bullet only went through Charley's ear lobe. It appeared that he had taken some Valium, and was falling asleep as he fired the gun, managing to miss his head. Chris gets off the phone with Dr. Dudley just as the doorbell rings. Chris opens the door and lets in Lenny and Claire Ganz, also friends of the Brocks. Lenny and Claire have just been in a car accident, and Lenny calls his doctor, who also happens to be Dr. Dudley, to ask him about his neck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (, also , ; 25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title ''Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade'', which he claimed in his memoirs the " Arcadians of Rome" bestowed on him. Biography Memoirs There is an abundance of autobiographical information on Goldoni, most of which comes from the introductions to his plays and from his ''Memoirs''. However, these memoirs are known to contain many errors of fact, especially about his earli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Ensler
V, formerly Eve Ensler (; born May 25, 1953), is an American playwright, author, performer, feminist, and activist. V is best known for her play ''The Vagina Monologues''."Politics, Power and Passion" ''The New York Times Magazine'', December 2, 2011. Please see the fifth segment by Eve Ensler. In 2006 Charles Isherwood of ''The New York Times'' called ''The Vagina Monologues'' "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade." In 2011, V was awarded the Isabelle Stevenson Award at the 65th Tony Awards, which recognizes an individual from the theater community who has made a substantial contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of humanitarian, social service, or charitable organizations. V was given this award for her crea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vagina Monologues
''The Vagina Monologues'' is an episodic play written in 1996 by Eve Ensler which developed and premiered at HERE Arts Center, Off-Off-Broadway in New York and was followed by an Off-Broadway run at the Westside Theatre. The play explores consensual and nonconsensual sexual experiences, body image, genital mutilation, direct and indirect encounters with sexual reproduction, vaginal care, menstruation, prostitution, and several other topics through the eyes of women with various ages, races, sexualities, and other differences. Charles Isherwood of ''The New York Times'' called the play "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade." In 2018, ''The New York Times'' stated "No recent hour of theater has had a greater impact worldwide" in an article "The Great Work Continues: The 25 Best American Plays Since 'Angels in America. Ensler originally starred in both the HERE premiere and in the first off-Broadway production, which was produced by Dav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Louise Wilson
Mary Louise Wilson (born November 12, 1931) is an American actress, singer, and comedian, known for her role in '' Grey Gardens''. She is also known for her appearances on '' One Day at a Time''. Early life Wilson was born in New Haven, Connecticut, but raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Work Stage ;Broadway * '' Hot Spot'' (1963) as Sue Ann (Broadway debut) * '' Flora, The Red Menace'' (1965) as Comrade Ada * '' Lovers and Other Strangers'' (1968) as Bernice * '' Noël Coward's Sweet Potato'' (1968) (replacement) * '' Promises, Promises'' (1968) as Marge MacDougall * ''Watercolor & Criss-Crossing'' (1970) * '' The Women'' (1973) as Nancy Blake * '' Gypsy: A Musical Fable'' (1974) as Tessie Tura * '' The Royal Family'' (1975) as Kitty Dean * ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' (1977) as Miss Prism * '' The Philadelphia Story'' (1980) as Elizabeth Imbrie * '' Fools'' (1981) as Lenya Zubritsky * ''Alice in Wonderland'' (1982) as the Red Queen * '' The Odd Couple'' (1985) as Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Ruquier
Laurent Hugues Emmanuel Ruquier (; born 24 February 1963) is a French television presenter, radio host and comedian. He is also a lyricist, writer, columnist and impresario; he has been co-owner and general manager of Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau in Paris since 2011. He is best known for hosting the '' On n'est pas couché'' show on France 2 every Saturday evening from 2006 to 2020. Early years Ruquier grew up in a large family of modest means, the second of five siblings. His father, Roger Ruquier, now deceased, was a boilermaker at construction sites in Le Havre and his mother, Raymonde Ruquier (1924-September 2015), was a housewife. In high school, Laurent entertained his friends by publishing his first satires in the school newspaper. At first he studied accounting - he obtained a DEUG in Economic and Social Administration (AES) at the Le Havre site of the University of Rouen and a Diploma from the Institute of Technology (DUT) in Business Management and Training ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Véronique Olmi
Véronique Olmi (born 1962) is a French playwright and novelist. She won the Prix Alain-Fournier emerging artist award for her 2001 novella ''Bord de Mer''. It has since been translated into several European languages. Olmi has published a dozen plays and half a dozen novels. Bibliography ;Theatre *1996: ''Le Passage'', Édition de l'Arche *1997: ''Chaos debout/Les nuits sans lune'', Édition de l'Arche *1998: ''Point à la ligne/La Jouissance du scorpion'', Édition de l'Arche *2000: ''Le Jardin des apparences'', Actes Sud *2001: ''Mathilde'', Actes Sud *2006: ''Je nous aime beaucoup'', Éditions Grasset *2009: ''Une séparation'', Triartis *2014: ''Des baisers, pardon'' Avant-Scéne ;Novels * ''Bord de mer'', Actes Sud, 2001 et 2003, (translated as ''Beside the Sea'' by Adriana Hunter, published by Peirene Press) **Prix Alain-Fournier in 2002, Babel, J'ai lu * ''Numéro six'', Actes Sud, 2002 Babel, J'ai lu, Biblio Collège et Biblio lycée. * ''Un si bel avenir'', Actes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Ayckbourn
Sir Alan Ayckbourn (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific British playwright and director. As of 2025, he has written and produced 90 full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance. More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit '' Relatively Speaking'' opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967. Major successes include '' Absurd Person Singular'' (1972), '' The Norman Conquests'' trilogy (1973), '' Absent Friends'' (1974), ''Bedroom Farce'' (1975), ''Just Between Ourselves'' (1976), '' A Chorus of Disapproval'' (1984), '' Woman in Mind'' (1985), '' A Small Family Business'' (1987), '' Man of the Moment'' (1988), ''House'' & ''Garden'' (1999) and '' Private Fears in Public Places'' (2004). His plays have won numer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molière Award For Best Supporting Actress
Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees 1980's * 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in '' Kean'' ** Anne Alvaro in '' Tonight We Improvise'' (''Ce soir on improvise'') ** Catherine Arditi in '' Adriana Monti'' ** Lucienne Hamon in '' Conversations After a Burial'' (''Conversations après un enterrement'') ** Magali Noël in ''Cabaret'' * 1988 : Catherine Salviat in ''Dialogues of the Carmelites'' (''Dialogues des carmélites'') ** Pascale de Boysson in '' Fall'' (''Ce que voit Fox'') ** Denise Chalem in '' Double Inconstancy'' (''La Double Inconstance'') ** Nicole Jamet in '' The Secret'' (''Le Secret'') ** Nada Strancar in ''The Winter's Tale'' (''Le Conte d'hiver'') * 1989 : Christine Murillo in ''The Seagull'' (''La Mouette'') ** Béatrice Agenin in '' Une femme sans histoire'' ** Catherine Rich in '' La Vraie Vie'' ** Martine Sarcey in '' Une absence'' ** Michèle Simonnet in '' Just Between Ourselves'' (''Entre nous soit dit'') 1990's * 1990 : Judith Magr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn, FRSL (; born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce ''Noises Off'' and the dramas ''Copenhagen (play), Copenhagen'' and ''Democracy (play), Democracy''. Frayn's novels, such as ''Towards the End of the Morning'', ''Headlong (Frayn novel), Headlong'' and ''Spies (novel), Spies'', have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. He has also written philosophical works, such as ''The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe'' (2006). Early life Frayn was born at Mill Hill, north London (then in Middlesex), to Thomas Allen Frayn, an asbestos salesman from a working-class family of blacksmiths, locksmiths and servants and his wife Violet Alice (née Lawson). Violet was the daughter of a failed palliasse merchant; having studied as a violinist at the Royal Academy of Music, she worked as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benefactors (play)
''Benefactors'' is a 1984 play by Michael Frayn. It is set in the 1960s and concerns an idealistic architect David and his wife Jane and their relationship with the cynical Colin and his wife Sheila. David is attempting to build some new homes to replace the slum housing of Basuto Road and is gradually forced by circumstances into building skyscrapers despite his initial aversion to these. This is set against the backdrop of 1960s new housing projects. Sheila becomes his secretary but it is unclear if she is helping him or the other way around. As the title of the play suggests it is about helping people and explores some of the difficulties inherent in this or in being helped. Awards and nominations ;Awards * 1984 Evening Standard Award for Best Play * 1984 Laurence Olivier Award The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply The Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognize excellence in West End theatre, professional theatre in London. The aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
