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Paul Blackman
Paul Blackman (born 7 December 1958 in Worthing, England) is a British theatrical producer and Theatre director, director. Career Former deputy director of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, Blackman in October 1990 became the artistic director of The Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) whose fortunes he revitalised with a string of programming and audience development initiatives including the now much copied "Pay What You Can" evenings. He founded the British Festival of Visual Theatre and the "Short BAC and Sides" festival that came to serve as the premier testing ground for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Notable and notorious productions during his tenure include an adaptation of the Marquis De Sades ''120 Days of Sodom''; the David Glass Ensembles production of ''Gormenghast (play), Gormenghast''; the Company of Clerks production of ''The Master and Margarita''. Blackman produced and directed new writing such as ''Bloody Hero'' by Brendon Somers, ''Obsession'' by Douglas M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worthing
Worthing ( ) is a seaside town and borough in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester. With a population of 113,094 and an area of , the borough is the second largest component of the Brighton and Hove built-up area, the List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, 15th most populous urban area in the United Kingdom. Northern parts of the borough, including the Worthing Downland Estate, form part of the South Downs National Park. In 2019, the Art Deco Worthing Pier was dubbed the best in Britain. Dating from around 4000 BC, the flint mines at Cissbury and nearby Church Hill, West Sussex, Church Hill, Blackpatch and Harrow Hill, West Sussex, Harrow Hill are amongst the earliest Neolithic British Isles, Neolithic monuments in Britain. The Iron Age hill fort of Cissbury Ring is one of Britain's largest. The recorded history of Worthing began with the Domesday Book. Worthing is Historic counties of England, historically part o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Penhall
Joe Scott Penhall (born 1967) is an English-Australian playwright and screenwriter, best known for his award-winning stage play '' Blue/Orange'', the award-winning West End musical ''Sunny Afternoon'' and creating the Netflix original series ''Mindhunter''. Early life Penhall was born in London, and raised in Adelaide, Australia. Career Penhall's first major play, ''Some Voices'', premiered at the Royal Court Theatre's upstairs playing space in London in 1994. It was very well-received, winning the John Whiting Award, and has since been played off-Broadway twice. In 2000 Penhall adapted the play for a film with the same name directed by Simon Cellan Jones, starring Daniel Craig and Kelly Macdonald, which premiered at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight. Penhall returned to the Royal Court Theatre with his second full-length play ''Pale Horse'', which also played in the Theatre Upstairs and featured Ray Winstone, who had starred in ''Some Voices''. A dark play, ''Pale Hors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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British Theatre Directors
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1958 Births
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Fundacion Shakespeare
''Fundacion NYC'' is a mix album by Welsh DJ Sasha. The album is recorded using the Ableton Live software and the album bears the name of his monthly residency nights in New York and Los Angeles. Track listing # Badger - "Rise of the Machine" – 2:59 # Adam Johnson - "Four Squares" – 5:25 # Swayzak - "Another Way" (Richard Davies Mix) – 6:36 # Beanfield - "Tides" featuring Bajka (C's Movement #1) (Carl Craig Remix) – 6:36 # Kosmas Epsilon - "Innocent Thoughts" (Stel Remix) – 2:17 # Funk Da Void - "All That Matters" – 1:06 # Closer Musik - "One, Two, Three" (Ewan Pearson Remix) – 1:18 # Phonique - "99 & a Half" featuring Alexander East (I:Cube Remix) – 3:25 # Holden & Thompson - "Come to Me" (Last Version) – 3:58 # Holden & Thompson - "Come to Me" (Club Mix) – 7:06 # M.A.N.D.Y. - "Jah" – 2:17 # Playgroup - "Behind the Wheel" (DJ-Kicks Electroca$h Mix) – 4:41 # Freeform Five - "Electromagnetic" (Tiefschwarz Dub) – 4:49 # Andre Kraml - "Safari" (James Hold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Stage Company
Classic Stage Company, or CSC, is a classical Off-Broadway theater company. Founded in 1967, Classic Stage Company is one of Off-Broadway's oldest theater companies. CSC is led by Producing Artistic Director Jill Rafson. John Doyle previously served as Artistic Director from 2016 until 2022. CSC's 199-seat Lynn F. Angelson Theater is the former Abbey Theatre located at 136 East 13th Street between Third and Fourth Avenues in the East Village near Union Square, Manhattan, New York City. CSC's productions have been cited repeatedly by the major Off-Broadway theater awards: Obie Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League Award and 1999 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work. Productions Recent productions include: Turgenev's '' A Month in the Country'' with Peter Dinklage and Taylor Schilling; Rodgers & Hammerstein's ''Allegro''; Brecht's '' The Caucasian Chalk Circle'' with Christopher Lloyd, and ''Galileo'' with F. Murray Abraha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vila Villa
Vila may refer to: People *Vila (surname) Places Andorra * Vila, Andorra, a town in the parish of Encamp Brazil * Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade, a municipality in the State of Mato Grosso * Vila Boa, Goiás, a municipality in the State of Goiás * Vila Flores, a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul * Vila Flor, a municipality in Rio Grande do Norte *Vila Império, a urbanized neighborhood in Minas Gerais. * Vila Lângaro, a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul * Vila Maria (district of São Paulo), a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul * Vila Nova do Piauí, a municipality of Piauí * Vila Nova dos Martírios, a municipality of Maranhão * Vila Nova do Sul, a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul * Vila Pavão, a municipality in Espírito Santo * Vila Propício, a municipality in the State of Goiás * Vila Rica, a municipality in the State of Minas Gerais * Vila Valério, a municipality in Espírito Santo * Vila Velha, a municipality in Espírito Santo Estonia * Vila, Estonia, villa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Campbell (actor)
Kenneth Victor Campbell (10 December 1941 – 31 August 2008) was an English actor, director and writer. He was known for his work in experimental theatre. He has been called "a one-man dynamo of British theatre". Campbell achieved notoriety in the 1970s for his nine-hour adaptation of the science-fiction trilogy '' Illuminatus!'' and his 22-hour staging of Neil Oram's play cycle '' The Warp''. The ''Guinness Book of Records'' listed the latter as the longest play in the world. ''The Independent'' said that, "In the 1990s, through a series of sprawling monologues packed with arcane information and freakish speculations on the nature of reality, he became something approaching a grand old man of the fringe, though without ever discarding his inner enfant terrible." ''The Times'' labelled Campbell a one-man whirlwind of comic and surreal performance. Michael Coveney, in an obituary in ''The Guardian'', described him as "one of the most original and unclassifiable talents in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Quentin
Caroline Quentin (born Caroline Amanda Jane Jones; 11 July 1960) is an English actress, broadcaster and television presenter. Quentin became known for her television appearances, portraying Dorothy in ''Men Behaving Badly'' (1992–1998), Maddie Magellan in ''Jonathan Creek'' (1997–2000), Kate Salinger in '' Kiss Me Kate'' and DCI Janine Lewis in '' Blue Murder'' (2003–2009). Early life Quentin was born in Reigate, Surrey, to Kathleen Jones and her husband Fred, a Royal Air Force pilot. She has three older sisters. She was educated at the independent Arts Educational School, in Tring, Hertfordshire, and appeared locally in the Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Festival. Career Television One of her earliest roles was in the Channel 4 comedy drama ''Hollywood Hits Chiswick'', alongside Derek Newark as W.C. Fields. Between 1992 and 1998, Quentin appeared as Dorothy in all 42 episodes of the sitcom ''Men Behaving Badly''. From 1997 until 2000, Quentin starred alongside Alan Dav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Merton
Paul James Martin (born 9 July 1957), known by the stage name Paul Merton, is an English comedian who is best known as one of the two regular panellists on the television show '' Have I Got News for You''. Known for his improvisation skill, Merton's humour is rooted in deadpan, surreal and sometimes dark comedy. He has been ranked by critics, fellow comedians and viewers to be among Britain's greatest comedians. He made his breakthrough in the late 1980s as a regular performer on the original British version of the comedy improvisation show ''Whose Line Is It Anyway?'', and has been a team captain on '' Have I Got News for You'' since it began in 1990. He was also the host of '' Room 101'' from 1999 to 2007, replacing original host Nick Hancock. Merton appears as a panellist regularly on Radio 4's ''Just a Minute'', first appearing in 1989, and became the only remaining regular panellist in 2009 following the death of Clement Freud. He has also appeared as one of the Comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Hodge
Douglas William Hodge (born 25 February 1960) is an English actor, director and musician. He has had an extensive career in theatre, as well as film and television where he has appeared in ''Robin Hood'' (2010), '' Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return'' and '' Diana'' (both 2013), ''Penny Dreadful'' (2016), '' Catastrophe'' (2018), '' Joker'' and '' Lost in Space'' (both 2019), and '' The Great'' (2020–2023). Early life Hodge was born on 25 February 1960 in Plymouth, Devon. When he was young, his family moved to Wigmore, Gillingham, Kent. He attended Fairview Primary School and The Howard School in Rainham, Kent. He was awarded a position as student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), in London, but was not happy and left before graduating. This never affected his desire to be an actor. Career Theatre Hodge has acted in plays by Harold Pinter, including '' No Man's Land'' at the Comedy Theatre in February 1993; ''Moonlight'' at the Almeida Theatre in September 1993; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
