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Hedda Gabler
''Hedda Gabler'' () is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The world premiere was staged on 31 January 1891 at the Residenztheater in Munich. Ibsen himself was in attendance, although he remained back-stage.Meyer, Michael Leverson, editor and introduction. Ibsen, Henrik. ''The Wild Duck and Hedda Gabler.'' W. W. Norton & Company (1997) . page 7. The play has been canonized as a masterpiece within the genres of literary realism, 19th-century theatre, and world drama.Bunin, Ivan. ''About Chekhov: The Unfinished Symphony''. Northwestern University Press (2007) . page 26Checkhov, Anton. ''Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentary''. Editor: Karlinsky, Simon. Northwestern University Press (1973) page 385Haugen, Einer Ingvald. ''Ibsen's Drama: Author to Audience''. University of Minnesota Press (1979) . page 142 Ibsen mainly wrote realistic plays until his forays into modern drama. ''Hedda Gabler'' dramatizes the experiences of the title cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Nazimova
Alla Aleksandrovna Nazimova (, born Marem-Ides Leventon; June 3 Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. May 22 1879 – July 13, 1945) was a Russian-American actress, director, producer and screenwriter. On Ibsen, Turgenev. She later moved to film, where she served many production roles, both writing and directing films under pseudonyms. Her film ''Salomé (1923 film)">Salome'' (1922) is regarded as a cultural landmark. Nazimova was bisexual and openly conducted relationships with women while being married to a man. She created the Garden of Allah Hotel, Garden of Alla Hotel which became a retreat for many celebrities of the time. She is credited with having originated the phrase " sewing circle" as a discreet code for lesbian or bisexual actresses. Early life Nazimova was born Marem-Ides Leventon (Russian name: ''Adelaida Yakovlevna Leventon'') in Yalta, Crimea, Russian Empire. Her accepted birth year is 1879, but different ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-heroine
An antihero (sometimes spelled as anti-hero or two words anti hero) or anti-heroine is a character in a narrative (in literature, film, TV, etc.) who may lack some conventional heroic qualities and attributes, such as idealism and morality. Although antiheroes may sometimes perform actions that most of the audience considers morally correct, their reasons for doing so may not align with the audience's morality. ''Antihero'' is a literary term that can be understood as standing in opposition to the traditional hero, i.e., one with high social status, well-liked by the general populace. Past the surface, scholars have additional requirements for the antihero. The " Racinian" antihero is defined by three factors. The first is that the antihero is doomed to fail before their adventure begins. The second constitutes the blame of that failure on everyone but themselves. Thirdly, they offer a critique of social morals and reality. To other scholars, an antihero is inherently a hero f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 191529 August 1982) was a Swedish actress.Obituary ''Variety Obituaries, Variety'', 1 September 1982. With a career spanning five decades, Bergman is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history. She won List of awards and nominations received by Ingrid Bergman, numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Award, and a Volpi Cup. She is one of only four actresses to have received at least List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories, three acting Academy Awards (only Katharine Hepburn has four). In 1999, the American Film Institute recognised Bergman as the fourth-greatest female AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars, screen legend of Classical Hollywood cinema, Classic Hollywood Cinema. Born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and German mother, Bergman began her acting career in Swedish and German films. Her introduction to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Meacham
Anne Meacham (July 21, 1925 — January 12, 2006) was an American actress of stage, film and television. Biography Born and raised in Chicago, Meacham left to study drama at Yale University and the Neighborhood Playhouse, New York. She debuted on Broadway as Ensign Jane Hilton in the 1952 ''The Long Watch'', for which she received a Clarence Derwent Award, a prize for newcomers to the New York stage. She appeared in many on- and off-Broadway productions, often adaptations of plays written by Tennessee Williams, such as '' Suddenly Last Summer'', '' The Gnädiges Fräulein'' and '' In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel''. For her interpretation of the role of Catherine Holly in ''Suddenly Last Summer'' (played by Elizabeth Taylor in the film version), she received an Obie Award as Best Actress. Other Broadway appearances included Jean Giraudoux's '' Ondine'', ''Eugenia'', an adaptation of Henry James's ''The Europeans'', ''The Crucible'' and ''The Seagull''. She received a second Obie aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Le Gallienne
Eva Le Gallienne (January 11, 1899 – June 3, 1991) was a British-born American stage actress, producer, director, translator, and author. A Broadway theatre, Broadway star by age 21, in 1926 she left Broadway behind to found the Fourteenth Street Theatre, Civic Repertory Theatre, where she served as director, producer, and lead actress. Noted for her boldness and idealism, she was a pioneering figure in the American theater, setting the stage for the Off-Broadway and regional theater movements that swept the country later in the 20th century. Le Gallienne devoted herself to the art of the theater as opposed to the show business of Broadway. She felt strongly that high-quality plays should be affordable and accessible to all people who wanted to see them. She ran the Civic Repertory Theatre for seven years (1926–1934), producing 37 plays during that time with a company whose actors included Burgess Meredith, John Garfield, Norman Lloyd, J. Edward Bromberg, Paul Leyssac, Flori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanne Louise Schmidt
Johanne Louise Schmidt (born 16 October 1983) is a Danish actress who has performed on both stage and in film. In September 2014, she received the Stardust Award, one of the Kronprinsparrets Priser presented by the Danish crown prince and his wife. Biography Born in Skanderborg, Schmidt is the daughter of the bookseller Jørgen Schmidt and the nurse Kirsten Hust. After matriculating from Skanderborg Amts Gymnasium in 2003, she went on to study at the Royal Danish Theatre, Royal Danish Theatre School, graduating in 2009. She debuted in ''Libertinen'' at Grønnegaards Theater where she also played in ''Den Vægelsindet''. Since 2011, she has been permanently employed by the Royal Danish Theatre. In 2014, she starred on stage as Hedda Gabler and played Rose in the film ''Fasandræberne'' based on the novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen. She is also scheduled to play Rose in Adler-Olsen's third film in the same series. In September 2014, she received the Rising Star Award (''Stjernedryspris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asta Nielsen
Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen (11 September 1881 – 24 May 1972) was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars. Seventy of Nielsen's 74 films were made in Germany where she was known simply as ''Die Asta'' (The Asta). Known for her large dark eyes, mask-like face and boyish figure, Nielsen most often portrayed strong-willed passionate women trapped by tragic circumstances. Due to the erotic nature of her performances, Nielsen's films were censored in the United States, and her work remained relatively obscure to American audiences. She is credited with transforming movie acting from overt theatricality to a more subtle naturalistic style. Nielsen founded her own film studio in Berlin during the 1920s, but returned to Denmark in 1937 after the rise of Nazism in Germany. A private figure in her later years, Nielsen became a collage artist and an author. Early life Asta Sofie Amalie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleonora Duse
Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse ( , ; 3 October 185821 April 1924), often known simply as Duse, was an Italian actress, rated by many as the greatest of her time. She performed in many countries, notably in the plays of Gabriele D'Annunzio and Henrik Ibsen. Duse achieved a unique power of conviction and verity on the stage through intense absorption in the character, "eliminating the self" as she put it, and letting the qualities emerge from within, not imposed through artifice. Life and career Early life Duse was born in Vigevano, Lombardy, Austrian Empire, in 1858 to Alessandro Vincenzo Duse (1820–1892) and Angelica Cappelletto (1833–1906). Lombardy would be taken from Austrian control the year after her birth by forces under the Kingdom of Sardinia, and would form part of the new Kingdom of Italy when she was about 3. Venice and some surrounding areas would remain part of the Austrian Empire until she was about 8. Both her father and her grandfather, Luigi, were actors fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Komissarzhevskaya
Vera Fyodorovna Komissarzhevskaya (; 8 November 1864 – 23 February 1910) was one of the most celebrated actresses and theatre managers of the late Russian Empire. She made her professional debut in 1893, after having acted as an amateur at Constantin Stanislavsky's Society of Art and Literature. She is probably best known today for originating the role of Nina in the ill-fated premiere of Anton Chekhov's ''The Seagull'', at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg in 1896. Though the production was deemed an utter failure, Komissarzhevskaya's performance was highly praised. Later in her career, Komissarzhevskaya became notable for her patronage of the up-and-coming theatre artist, Vsevolod Meyerhold. Following Meyerhold's unsuccessful attempts to stage symbolist plays at Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre, Komissarzhevskaya invited him to try his experiments at her new Dramatic Theatre. During their short-lived collaboration, the two managed to develop Meyerhold's sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Theatre
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, American and British English spelling differences), many of the List of Broadway theaters, extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling ''Theatre'' as the proper noun in their names. Many performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations also use the spelling ''theatre''. or Broadway, is a theatre genre that consists of the theatrical performances presented in 41 professional Theater (structure), theaters, each with 500 or more seats, in the Theater District, Manhattan, Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End theatre, West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world. While the Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway thoroughfare is eponymous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Minnie Maddern Fiske (born Marie Augusta Davey; December 19, 1865 – February 15, 1932), but often billed simply as Mrs. Fiske, was one of the leading American actresses of the late 19th and early 20th century. She also spearheaded the fight against the Theatrical Syndicate for the sake of artistic freedom. She was widely considered the most important actress on the American stage in the first quarter of the 20th century. Her performances in several Henrik Ibsen plays helped introduce American audiences to the Norwegian playwright. Career Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Minnie Maddern was the daughter of stage manager Thomas Davey and actress Lizzie Maddern. Coming from a theatrical family, she performed her first professional show at the age of three as the Duke of York in ''Richard III''. She debuted in New York as a four-year-old in the play ''A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing.'' She toured extensively as a child, and was educated in many convent schools. She was a child prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
