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Jeremy Herbert
Jeremy Herbert, (b. 1960) from London, is an international multi-media artist specializing in theatre design. He trained under Margaret Harris on the Motley Theatre Design Course. Jeremy Herbert's credits include both premieres of ''4.48 Psychosis'' and ''Cleansed'' written by Sarah Kane at the Royal Court Theatre. He staged ''Sexual Perversity in Chicago'', Laurence Boswell's dark adaptation of ''Beauty and the Beast'', ''Up for Grabs (play), Up for Grabs'', ''Treats (play), Treats'', and recently ''The Ugly One'' for the Royal Court Theatre. He frequently works with directors Ian Rickson, Ramin Gray and Laurence Boswell. Awards * 1995 - Arts Foundation Award - Theatre Design * 2000 - Barclays Theatre Award - Best Designer for ''4.48 Psychosis''. * 2004 - NESTA Fellowship Dream Time Award - Design References 1960 births Living people English contemporary artists {{UK-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Harris
Margaret Frances Harris (28 May 1904 – 10 May 2000) was an English theatre and opera costume design, costume and scenic designer. Biography Early years Harris was born in Hayes, Bromley, Hayes, Kent, the fourth child and second daughter of William Birkbeck Harris, a Lloyds Insurance clerk, and his wife Kathleen Marion, née Carey. With her older sister Sophie Harris she studied at the Chelsea Illustrators Studio in London in the late 1920s. A fellow student was Elizabeth Montgomery (designer), Elizabeth Montgomery, and the three formed a theatre design partnership known as Motley Theatre Design Group. Career The first full-scale production on which they worked was ''Romeo and Juliet'' for the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS), John Gielgud's debut as a director. The great success of this led to an invitation from Gielgud to design Gordon Daviot's ''Richard of Bordeaux'', which opened at the New Theatre in St Martins Lane, London, in February 1933. The production wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motley Theatre Design Course
Motley Theatre Design Course is a one-year independent theatre design course in London. It was founded at Sadler's Wells Opera in 1966. History of the school Sadler's Wells Opera and English National Opera In 1962, Sadler's Wells Opera announced the appointment of their first permanent creative team of Glen Byam Shaw as Director of Productions, John Blatchley as his assistant and Margaret 'Percy' Harris MBE (of the Motley Theatre Design Group) as Head of Design, stressing that "apart from their eminence in the world of theatre, they have been connected with teaching, both on the dramatic side and design." This referred to their involvement in the Old Vic Theatre School (1947–1952), founded by Michel Saint-Denis, George Devine and Glen Byam Shaw. Percy Harris had previously taught at Michel Saint-Denis' experimental London Theatre Studio (1936–1939). Percy had taught Jocelyn Herbert RDI at the London Theatre Studio, and Jocelyn herself was to teach Percy's students fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleansed
''Cleansed'' is the third play by the English playwright Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1998 at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs in London. The play is set in a university which (according to the blurb of the published script) is operating as "an institution designed to rid society of its undesirables" where "a group of inmates try to save themselves through love" while under the rule of the Sadomasochism, sadistic Tinker. When the play premiered at the Royal Court in April 1998, Kane played the part of Grace for the last three performances because of an injury that the original actress suffered. It is sometimes claimed that Tinker was named after the theatre critic for British newspaper ''The Daily Mail'', Jack Tinker, whose review of Kane's first play ''Blasted'' was headlined "this disgusting feast of filth", but there does not appear to be any evidence of Kane confirming this. Sarah Kane's brother and executor of her estate, Simon Kane, in 2005 remarked that "over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane (3 February 1971 – 20 February 1999) was an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. She is known for her plays that deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture—both physical and psychological—and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of extreme and violent stage action. Kane herself and scholars of her work, such as Graham Saunders, have identified some of her inspirations as expressionist theatre and Jacobean tragedy. The critic Aleks Sierz saw her work as part of a confrontational style and sensibility of drama termed "in-yer-face theatre". Sierz originally called Kane "the quintessential in-yer-face writer of the 990s but later remarked in 2009 that although he initially "thought she was very typical of the new writing of the middle 1990s. The further we get away from that in time, the more un-typical she seems to be". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Court Theatre
The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a West End theatre#London's non-commercial theatres, non-commercial West End theatre in Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England. In 1956 it was acquired by and remains the home of the English Stage Company, which is known for its contributions to contemporary theatre and won the Europe Theatre Prize, Europe Prize Theatrical Realities in 1999. History The first theatre The first theatre on Lower George Street, off Sloane Square, was the converted Nonconformist Ranelagh Chapel, opened as a theatre in 1870 under the name The New Chelsea Theatre. Marie Litton became its manager in 1871, hiring Walter Emden to remodel the interior, and it was renamed the Court Theatre. Several of W. S. Gilbert's early plays were staged here, including ''Randall's Thumb'', ''Creatures of Impulse'' (with music by Alberto Randegger), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sexual Perversity In Chicago
''Sexual Perversity in Chicago'' is a play written by David Mamet that examines the sex lives of two men and two women in the 1970s. The play is filled with profanity and regional jargon that reflects the working-class language of Chicago. The characters' relationships come to be hindered by the caustic nature of their words, as much of the dialogue includes insults and arguments. The play presents "intimate relationships sminefields of buried fears and misunderstandings". The play has twice been adapted for film as ''About Last Night'', first in 1986, then again in 2014. Characters and plot * Dan Shapiro: An urban male in his late twenties * Bernard Litko: Dan's friend and associate * Deborah Soloman: A woman in her late twenties * Joan Webber: Deborah's friend and roommate Scene: Various spots around the North Side of Chicago, a Big City on a Lake. Time: Approximately nine weeks one summer.Mamet, ''Sexual Perversity in Chicago'', Grove Press, Inc., 1974 Danny and Berni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up For Grabs (play)
Up For Grabs is a play by Australian playwright David Williamson. It is set in the booming international art market from 1990, which was fueled by the dot com boom. It involves scenes of an alternate sexual nature. It can be viewed as a play portraying an analysis of how wealth and power can corrupt the arts. The London West End theatre version saw Madonna, billed as 'Madonna Ritchie', starring on stage for the third time in her career, to overall poor critical review of her technical ability, being described as "the evening's biggest disappointment" by a critic. Background Williamson's play is about the booming international art market from 1990 to the present. In Australia in 1990, total art sales at auction were less than $17 million, by 1995 $27 million, by 1999 to $70 million, and in 2002 they were worth more than $90 million. According to investment analysts, art has been the fourth best-performing asset in Australia for the ten years to 2002. This pushed contemporary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treats (play)
''Treats'' is a 1975 romantic drama play by Christopher Hampton about a love triangle. Plot The play is set in 1974, London, in a single room in Ann's flat. There are three characters: Ann, her former boyfriend Dave, and her lover Patrick. Ann and Patrick are contentedly sitting at home one night, listening to music and talking, when Dave breaks in. His violent temper is clear from the beginning: He punches Patrick on the nose, then refuses to leave, even as Ann threatens to call the police. It soon turns out that Ann used Dave's work trip to Cyprus to break up with him as she had long planned to do. Now a colleague from work—her new boyfriend, Patrick— has moved in with her. Dave refuses to accept the situation and demands an explanation, bullying Ann, and being overly friendly with Patrick. Ann seems determined not to listen to him, particularly when the two men bond against her. Dave tells her she would be bored out of her mind by Patrick, and asks her to marry hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Rickson
Ian David Rickson (born 1963) is a British theatre director. He was the artistic director at the Royal Court Theatre in London from 1998 to 2006.Interview ''The Guardian'', 25 January 2010 Career Rickson's first professional job as director was at the Royal Court Young People's Theatre in 1990. He was appointed to replace as artistic director of the in 1998, after three years there as an associate director. He stayed as artistic di ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramin Gray
Ramin Gray (born 11 October 1963) is a theatre director of Iranian (Muslim) and British (Jewish) heritage. Personal life Born in London in 1963, Ramin grew up in Oxford, Tehran, New York and Paris before graduating from Christ Church, Oxford with a BA (Hons, 2:1) in Oriental Studies (Persian and Arabic) in 1987. He speaks French, Persian and German and has travelled extensively, especially in the Middle East. He is divorced, has five children, and lives mainly in London. Career Ramin began directing professionally in 1988 with a production of John Marston's ''The Malcontent'' at the Latchmere Theatre in London. In 1990 he was awarded a Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme bursary to Liverpool Playhouse where he directed Wedekind's '' Spring Awakening'' and Arthur Miller's ''A View from the Bridge''. He re-opened the Liverpool Playhouse Studio as a dedicated space for new plays from 1992–95, where he directed Gregory Motton's ''A Message for the Broken-Hearted''. In Paris a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Boswell
Laurence Boswell (born 1959) is a theatre director, whose credits include Ben Elton's Popcorn, Madonna in her London stage debut, Eddie Izzard in a revival of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, and Matt Damon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hayden Christensen, Freddie Prinze Jr and Anna Paquin for West End debuts in This Is Our Youth ''This Is Our Youth'' is a play by American dramatist and screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan. It premiered Off-Broadway in 1996 and since been produced all over the world, including the West End, Broadway Sydney and Toronto. Plot The play takes pla ..., which, in 2002, ran concurrently with Up for Grabs, featuring Madonna. Boswell was appointed an associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2003, for whom he opened an expanded version of his children's Christmas show, Beauty and the Beast. External links20 questions with Laurence Boswell [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NESTA
Nesta (formerly NESTA, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) is an innovation foundation based in the UK. The organisation acts through a combination of programmes, investment, policy and research, and the formation of partnerships to promote innovation across a broad range of sectors. Nesta was originally funded by a £250 million endowment from the UK National Lottery. The endowment is managed through a trust, and Nesta uses the interest from the trust to meet its charitable objects and to fund and support its projects. The charity is registered in England and Wales with charity no. 1144091 and in Scotland with no. SC042833. Nesta states its purpose is to bring bold ideas to life to change the world for good. History The old NESTA was set up in 1998 by an independent endowment in the United Kingdom established by an Act of Parliament, the National Lottery Act 1998. It had been a Labour Party manifesto promise. In 2002 it was awarded £95 million. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
