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Pilot Theatre
Pilot Theatre is an Arts Council England funded theatre company based in York, England. It was founded in 1981 by students from Bretton Hall College in Wakefield. The company was based in Wakefield and Castleford before moving to York in 2001. History The company is now based at York Guildhall. It tours work in the UK and internationally. As of July 2016, the company's artistic direction is led by Esther Richardson. The previous artistic director, Marcus Romer, who wrote, directed, and shaped the identity of the company since 1995, has since moved on to establish Arts Beacon. In 1998, Pilot Theatre embarked on their first mid-scale UK tour with their production of ''Lord of the Flies'', which went on to win the company numerous awards and great critical acclaim. Since then the company has developed links with theatres around the country, in particular York Theatre Royal where they were residents. They were part of the EU Culture 2000 funded programme called Magic-Net along wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Richardson
Esther Richardson (born 1974) is a British theatre director and script editor. She directed an adaptation of Stephen Poliakoff's ''Breaking the Silence'', and ''A Pair of Pinters.'' In 2016, she was appointed the artistic director of Pilot Theatre. Biography Richardson was born in Manchester. She attended Bristol University, where she studied English. She earned her master's in theatre arts from Goldsmiths, University of London. She began working with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a literary assistant in 2000. She began working on the Theatre Writing Partnership (TWP), which allowed her to discover new play writers. TWP won the Peggy Ramsay award for Momentum in 2004. In 2007, she quit working with TWP, and began working with Derby LIVE, Nottingham Playhouse, Royal and Derngate, the Soho Theatre and the Cast Theater in Doncaster, directing its first show, '' The Glee Club'' in 2013. In 2011, Richardson and Andy Barrett created ''Skybus'', which is a play that took plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arts Council England
Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three separate bodies for England, Scotland and Wales. The arts funding system in England underwent considerable reorganisation in 2002 when all of the regional arts boards were subsumed into Arts Council England and became regional offices of the national organisation. Arts Council England is a government-funded body dedicated to promoting the performing, visual and literary arts in England. Since 1994, Arts Council England has been responsible for distributing lottery funding. This investment has helped to transform the building stock of arts organisations and to create many additional high-quality arts activities. On 1 October 2011 the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council was subsumed into the Arts C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel '' Lord of the Flies'' (1954), Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, Golding was awarded the Booker Prize for '' Rites of Passage'', the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, '' To the Ends of the Earth''. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature. As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988. The house was known as ''Karenza'', the Cornish word for love, and he spent many childhood holidays there. The Golding family lived at 29, The Green, Marlborough, Wiltshire, Golding and his elder brother Joseph attending the school at which their father taught. Golding's mother was a campaigner for female suffrage; she was Cornish and was considered by her son "a superstitious Celt", who used to tell him old Cornish ghost stories from her own childhood. In 1930, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rumble Fish
''Rumble Fish'' is a 1983 American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It is based on the 1975 novel '' Rumble Fish'' by S. E. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Coppola. The film stars Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Vincent Spano, Diane Lane, Diana Scarwid, Nicolas Cage, Laurence Fishburne, Chris Penn, and Dennis Hopper. The film centers on the relationship between a character called the Motorcycle Boy (Rourke), a revered former gang leader wishing to live a more peaceful life, and his younger brother, Rusty James (Dillon), a teenaged hoodlum who aspires to become as feared as his brother. Coppola wrote the screenplay for the film with Hinton on his days off from shooting '' The Outsiders''. He made the films back-to-back, retaining much of the same cast and crew, particularly Matt Dillon and Diane Lane. ''Rumble Fish'' is dedicated to Coppola's brother August. The film received positive reviews from critics, but was a box-office disaster, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Puig
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne (December 28, 1932 – July 22, 1990), commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author. Among his best-known novels are '' La traición de Rita Hayworth'' ('' Betrayed by Rita Hayworth'', 1968), ''Boquitas pintadas'' ('' Heartbreak Tango'', 1969), and ''El beso de la mujer araña'' ('' Kiss of the Spider Woman'', 1976) which was adapted into the film released in 1985, directed by the Argentine-Brazilian director Héctor Babenco; and a Broadway musical in 1993. Early life, education and early career Puig was born in General Villegas, Buenos Aires Province. Since there was no high school in General Villegas, his parents sent him to Buenos Aires in 1946. Puig attended Colegio Ward in Villa Sarmiento ( Morón County). This is when he began to read systematically, beginning with a collection of texts by Nobel Prize winners. A classmate named Horacio, in whose home Puig rented accommodation when he first moved to Buenos Aires City introduced him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiss Of The Spider Woman (play)
''Kiss of the Spider Woman'' is a 1983 stage adaptation by Manuel Puig's of his ''Kiss of the Spider Woman'' novel. Novelist, screenwriter and playwright Manuel Puig wrote two plays while living in exile. The first was a dramatised version of his 1976 novel ''El beso de la mujer araña'' ('' Kiss of the Spider Woman''), written in 1983 and first staged in London in 1985 at the Bush Theatre, in an English-language version by translator Allan Baker, starring Mark Rylance and Simon Callow. Baker's version was revived in April 2007 at the Donmar Warehouse with Rupert Evans as Valentin and Will Keen as Molina. Set in a cell at the |
Martin McDonagh
Martin Faranan McDonagh ( ; born 26 March 1970) is a British-Irish playwright and filmmaker. He is known for his Absurdism, absurdist Black comedy, dark humour which often challenges the modern theatre aesthetic. He has won List of awards and nominations received by Martin McDonagh, numerous accolades including an Academy Award, six BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Laurence Olivier Awards, Olivier Awards in addition to nominations for five Tony Awards. His plays, many of which have been produced in the West End (theatre), West End and on Broadway (theatre), Broadway, include ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'', ''The Cripple of Inishmaan'' (both 1996), ''The Lonesome West'' (1997), ''The Lieutenant of Inishmore'' (2001), ''The Pillowman'' (2003), ''A Behanding in Spokane'' (2010), and ''Hangmen (play), Hangmen'' (2015). McDonagh won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for ''Six Shooter (film), Six Shooter'' and has received nominations for List of award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beauty Queen Of Leenane
''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'' is a 1996 dramatic play by Martin McDonagh which was premiered by the Druid Theatre Company in Galway, Ireland. It also enjoyed successful runs at London's West End, Broadway and Off-Broadway. The original London production was nominated for Best New Play at the 1997 Laurence Olivier Awards, and the 1998 Broadway production was nominated for six Tony Awards, winning four, for Best Leading Actress in a Play ( Marie Mullen), Best Featured Actor in a Play ( Tom Murphy), Best Featured Actress in a Play ( Anna Manahan), and Best Direction of a Play ( Garry Hynes). Productions Production history The play received its world premiere when the Druid Theatre Company opened the production at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway on 1 February 1996. It then toured Ireland, stopping off in Longford, Kilkenny and Limerick. It transferred to London's West End, where it opened at the Royal Court Theatre on 29 February 1996. The Druid production then returne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess (born 25 April 1954) is a British writer of children's fiction. He became famous in 1996 with the publication of ''Junk (novel), Junk'', about heroin-addicted teenagers on the streets of Bristol. In Britain, ''Junk'' became one of the best-known young adult books of the decade. Burgess won the annual Carnegie Medal (literary award), Carnegie Medal from the CILIP, Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British author. For the 10th anniversary in 2007 it was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. Early life Burgess was born in the Municipal Borough of Twickenham, Middlesex, England (now administered as part of Greater London). Author He completed his first book accepted for publication in his mid-thirties: a novel, ''The Cry of the Wolf'', published by Andersen Press in 1990, which was highly commended by librarians for the Carnegie Medal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloodtide (play)
''Bloodtide'' is a Young Adult novel by Melvin Burgess, first published by Andersen Press Limited in 1999. It is based upon the first part of the Icelandic " Volsunga Saga". It received positive reviews from ''The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews'', and ''Publishers Weekly'', and was followed in 2007 by a sequel, ''Bloodsong''. The book combines sciene fiction and fantasy, Prenuse The book deals with two warring gangs, named the Volsons and the Connors. Each controls a large portion of London, since the city was blockaded from the outside world. Val, head of the Volsons, wishes for peace between the two and offers his daughter Signy as Conor's wife in order to broker a treaty. His hopes are to unite London and destroy the half-men who occupy the outer rim of London. Once they have been destroyed, he wishes to rise up against the rest of the world and claim it all in the name of the Volson clan. They are opposed by humans, half-men and the Gods, who have recently begun to reappear throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Cartwright
Jim Cartwright (born 27 June 1958) is an English dramatist, born in Municipal Borough of Farnworth, Farnworth, Lancashire. Cartwright's first play, Road (play), ''Road'', won a number of awards before being adapted for TV and broadcast by the BBC. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Plays by Jim Cartwright * 1986 Road (play), ''Road'' - Royal Court Theatre, London. Winner of: George Devine Award; Plays and Players Award; Drama Magazine Award; Samuel Beckett Award. directed by Simon Curtis (filmmaker), Simon Curtis. * 1988 ''Bed'' - National Theatre. directed by Julia Bardsley * 1989 ''Two'' - Octagon. Young Vic Theatre. Winner of: Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for Best New Play. directed by Andy Hay * 1990 ''Baths'' - Octagon. directed by Andy Hay * 1991 ''Eight Miles High'' - Octagon * 1994 & 1995 Bristol Theatre Royal Nominated for Theatre Management Association Best Musical Award. directed by Andy Hay * 1992 ''The Rise and Fall of Little Voice'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road (play)
''Road'' is the first play written by Jim Cartwright, and was first produced in 1986 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, directed by Simon Curtis (filmmaker), Simon Curtis. The play explores the lives of the people in a deprived, working class area of Lancashire during the government of Margaret Thatcher, a time of high unemployment in the north of England. Despite its explicit nature, it was considered extremely effective in portraying the desperation of people's lives at this time, as well as containing a great deal of humour. Set on a road on a busy night, the audience delve into the houses on the street and the characters' lives. The play is often performed on a Promenade theatre, promenade, allowing the audience to follow the narrator (Scullery) along the road and visit different sets and the different homes of the characters. The play has won a number of awards and was voted the 36th best play of the 20th century in a poll by the Royal National Theatre. Notable prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |