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Justin Martin (director)
Justin Martin is an Australian director of theatre, film, and television who has worked mainly in England. He is known for his solo direction of the National Theatre production of Suzie Miller's play ''Prima Facie'' in 2021, as well as for his collaborations with director Stephen Daldry. One such collaboration is '' Stranger Things: The First Shadow'', still running in the West End after beginning its run in December 2023. His plays have also had Broadway runs. has received a BAFTA TV Award as well as nominations for two Laurence Olivier Awards and a Drama Desk Award. Early life and education Justin Martin grew up in Australia. He moved to London to be with a partner, and found that he enjoyed working there. Career Theatre Martin has had a long collaboration with theatre director Stephen Daldry. He was working as "resident director" on the Australian production of ''Billy Elliot'' when he met Daldry. He started working with him, first as assistant and then associate di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jungle (play)
''The Jungle'' is a play by Joe Robertson and Joe Murphy. The play won the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Theatre, and the 2018 BroadwayWorld UK Award for Best New Production of a Play, and went on to win further awards. Plot The play follows the lives of characters living in the Calais Jungle migrant camp. Original creative team Production history ''The Jungle'' premiered at the Young Vic, London running from 7 December 2017 to 9 January 2018. After a successful sold-out run, the play made a West End transfer to the Playhouse Theatre from 16 June 2018 to 3 November 2018. The play made its Off-Broadway premiere on 4 December 2018 at St Ann's Warehouse New York, running until 27 January 2019. ''The Jungle'' then moved to The Curran San Francisco, running from 26 March 2019 to 19 May 2019, receiving positive reviews. In April 2020 the play was intended to return to St Ann's Warehouse, New York, with further plans for a US tour throughout Spring / Summer 2021, however due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let The Right One In (Thorne Play)
''Let the Right One In'' () is a 2004 vampire novel by Swedish writer John Ajvide Lindqvist. The story centers on the relationship between a 12-year-old boy, Oskar, and a centuries-old vampire child, Eli. It takes place in Blackeberg, a working-class suburb of Stockholm, in the early 1980s. The book grapples with the darker side of humanity, including such issues as existential anxiety, social isolation, fatherlessness, divorce, alcoholism, school bullying, paedophilia, genital mutilation, self-mutilation, and murder. The book was a bestseller in the author's home country of Sweden; it was translated into several languages, including English. It has been adapted as three independent films, a play, and a television series. A Swedish-language film, '' Let the Right One In'', directed by Tomas Alfredson, was released in 2008. Another adaptation was created in English and based on Lindqvist's screenplay. Entitled '' Let Me In'', it was directed by Matt Reeves and released in 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jodie Comer
Jodie Marie Comer ( ; born 11 March 1993) is an English actress of screen and stage. She began her career in an episode of '' The Royal Today'' in 2008. Comer gained recognition for appearing in the series ''My Mad Fat Diary'' (2013–2015) and '' Doctor Foster'' (2015–2017), and starred in the drama miniseries '' Thirteen'' (2016). From 2018 to 2022, Comer played sociopathic assassin Villanelle in the BBC America spy thriller television series ''Killing Eve'', winning a BAFTA Television Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. For playing Sarah, a healthcare assistant, in the television film ''Help'' (2021), she won another BAFTA Television Award. Comer expanded to films in 2021 with main roles in the action comedy film '' Free Guy'' and historical drama '' The Last Duel''. In 2022, she made her West End theatre debut in Suzie Miller's one-woman play ''Prima Facie'', which earned her an Evening Standard Theatre Award and a Laurence Olivier Award. Following its transfer to Broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Vic
The Young Vic Theatre is a performing arts venue located on The Cut, near the South Bank, in the London Borough of Lambeth. The Young Vic was established by Frank Dunlop in 1970. Nadia Fall has been artistic director since 2025, succeeding Kwame Kwei-Armah, and David Lan before him. History In the period after World War II, a Young Vic Company was formed in 1946 by director George Devine as an offshoot of the Old Vic Theatre School for the purpose of performing classic plays for audiences aged nine to fifteen. This was discontinued in 1948, when Devine and the entire faculty resigned from the Old Vic, but in 1969 Frank Dunlop became founder-director of The Young Vic theatre with ''Scapino'', his free adaptation of Molière's '' The Cheats of Scapin'', presented at the new venue as a National Theatre production. It opened on 10 September 1970 and starred Jim Dale in the title role, with designs by Carl Toms (decor) and Maria Björnson (costumes). Initially part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoto (play)
''Kyoto'' is a play by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, produced and acted by Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and Good Chance originally in Swan Theatre in 2024, then @sohoplace in 2025. The play dramatizes how Big Oil, having learned about the risk of climate change, use legal tricks and misinformation through their representative Don Pearlman in an attempt to protect their profits. Through the determination of key representatives agreement is reached – the Kyoto Protocol. Production history Stratford-upon-Avon (2024) The play was presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company and Good Chance. The world premiere was at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon running from 18 June until 13 July 2024 (with a press night on 25 June). The play was directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin. West End (2025) Following the success of the Stratford-upon Avon run, the production transferred to London's West End at @sohoplace @sohoplace is a West End theatre operated by Nimax T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Inheritance (play)
''The Inheritance'' is a play by Matthew López, inspired by the 1910 novel ''Howards End'' by E. M. Forster. The play premiered in London at the Young Vic in March 2018, before transferring to Broadway in November 2019. Productions Off-West End (2018) The play was commissioned by Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut. The play was produced in London at the Young Vic Theatre under the direction of Stephen Daldry in March 2018. The play was staged in two parts of over three hours each, intended to be viewed sequentially, and reimagines E. M. Forster's ''Howards End'' as "a lovingly wry portrait of New York's gay community", "with gay men from different generations standing in for Forster's straight people from different classes". Lopez found parallels between his own life and Forster's closeted existence before the partial-decriminalisation of homosexuality, telling ''The New Yorker'': "We're so far apart, and yet when I read his diaries—that’s ''me''. That's me, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren (; born Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov; 26 July 1945) is an English actor. With a career spanning over six decades of Helen Mirren on screen and stage, screen and stage, List of awards and nominations received by Helen Mirren, her accolades include an Academy Award, five Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four BAFTA Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award. She is the only person to have achieved both the Triple Crown of Acting, US and Triple Crown (UK entertainment), UK Triple Crowns of Acting, and has also received the BAFTA Fellowship, Honorary Golden Bear, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Mirren was made a Dame, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 Birthday Honours, 2003. Mirren started her career at the age of 18 as a performer with the National Youth Theatre, where she played Cleopatra in ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (1965). She later joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and made her West End theatre, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Audience (play)
''The Audience'' is a play by the British playwright and screenwriter Peter Morgan. The play centres on weekly meetings, called audiences, between Queen Elizabeth II (originally played by Helen Mirren) and her prime ministers. It premiered in the West End in 2013, at the Gielgud Theatre. A Broadway production opened in 2015, also starring Mirren. A West End revival played in London in 2015 starring Kristin Scott Thomas in the lead role. Overview ''The Audience'' is centred on the weekly audiences given by Queen Elizabeth II to Prime Ministers from her accession in 1952 until her death. Three Prime Ministers are omitted from the play: Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath are not featured. Tony Blair originally did not feature in the play, but was added when the play transferred to Broadway, replacing James Callaghan, who was excluded from subsequent productions. Advice regarding the political and historical content of the weekly audiences was provided by Profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carey Mulligan
Carey Hannah Mulligan (born 28 May 1985) is a British actress. She has received various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2025 for services to drama. Mulligan made her professional acting debut on stage in Kevin Elyot's play ''Forty Winks'' (2004) at the Royal Court Theatre. She made her film debut with a supporting role in Joe Wright's romantic drama '' Pride & Prejudice'' (2005), followed by diverse roles in television, including the drama series ''Bleak House'' (2005), and the television film ''Northanger Abbey'' (2007). She made her Broadway debut playing Nina in the revival of Anton Chekhov's ''The Seagull'' (2008). Mulligan's breakthrough role came as a 1960s schoolgirl in the coming-of-age film '' An Education'' (2009), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress and receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Nighy
William Francis Nighy (; born 12 December 1949) is an English actor. Known for his work in numerous stage, television and film productions, he has received several awards including a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award, and also has had nominations for an Academy Award, a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award. Nighy started his career with the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, and made his London debut with the Royal National Theatre starting with '' The Illuminatus!'' in 1977. He gained acclaim for his roles in David Hare's ''Pravda'' in 1985, Harold Pinter's '' Betrayal'' in 1991, Tom Stoppard's '' Arcadia'' in 1993, and Anton Chekhov's ''The Seagull'' in 1994. He received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor nomination for his role in '' Blue/Orange'' in 2001. He acted on Broadway in the David Hare plays '' The Vertical Hour'' (2006) and ''Skylight'' (2015), earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination for the latter. Nighy's early film r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skylight (play)
''Skylight'' is a play by British dramatist David Hare. The play premiered in the West End at the Cottesloe Theatre in 1995, moving to the Wyndham's Theatre in 1996. After opening on Broadway in 1996, it played again in the West End in 1997 at the Vaudeville Theatre. It was revived at Wyndham's Theatre in the West End in 2014, and that production transferred to Broadway in 2015. Productions ''Skylight'' premiered in May 1995 at the Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, directed by Richard Eyre and starring Michael Gambon and Lia Williams. The production moved to the Wyndham's Theatre for a short run from 13 February 1996, again with Gambon and Williams.Hare, DavidScript''Skylight'' (books.google.com), Faber and Faber, 2013 (no page numbers) Both actors appeared in the Broadway transfer from September to December 1996. Both earned Tony Award nominations for their performances, as well as Eyre as director and the play as Best Play. The play won the New York Drama Critics' Circle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hare (playwright)
Sir David Rippon Hare (born 5 June 1947) is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. Best known for his stage work, Hare has also enjoyed great success with films, receiving two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing ''The Hours'' in 2002, based on the novel by Michael Cunningham, and ''The Reader'' in 2008, based on the novel by Bernhard Schlink. In the West End, he had his greatest success with the plays'' Plenty'' (1978), which he adapted into a 1985 film starring Meryl Streep, ''Racing Demon'' (1990), ''Skylight'' (1997), and ''Amy's View'' (1998). The four plays ran on Broadway in 1982–83, 1996, 1998 and 1999 respectively, earning Hare three Tony Award nominations for Best Play for the first three and two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best New Play. His other notable projects on stage include ''A Map of the World'', ''Pravda'' (starring Anthony Hopkins at the Royal National Theatre in London), '' Murmuring Judges'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
