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Prospero Testa
Prospero ( ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of William Shakespeare's ''The Tempest''. Character Twelve years before the play begins, Prospero is usurped from his position as the rightful Duke of Milan by his brother Antonio, who puts Prospero and his three-year-old daughter Miranda to sea on a "rotten carcass" of a boat to die. Prospero and Miranda survived and found exile on a small island inhabited mostly by spirits. Prospero learned sorcery from books, and uses it to protect Miranda. Before the play begins, Prospero freed the magical spirit Ariel from entrapment within "a cloven pine". Ariel is beholden to Prospero after he is freed from his imprisonment inside the pine tree. Prospero then takes Ariel as a slave. Prospero's sorcery is sufficiently powerful to control Ariel and other spirits, as well as to alter weather and even raise the dead: "Graves at my command have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth, by my so potent Art." - Act V, scene 1. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tempest
''The Tempest'' is a Shakespeare's plays, play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone. After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, the rest of the story is set on a remote island, where Prospero, a magician, lives with his daughter Miranda (The Tempest), Miranda, and his two servants: Caliban, a savage monster figure, and Ariel (The Tempest), Ariel, an airy spirit. The play contains music and songs that evoke the spirit of enchantment on the island. It explores many themes, including Magic (supernatural), magic, betrayal, revenge, forgiveness and family. In Act IV, a wedding masque serves as a play-within-a-play, and contributes spectacle, allegory, and elevated language. Although ''The Tempest'' is listed in the First Folio as the first of Shakespeare's comedies, it deals with both tragic and comic themes, and modern criticism has created a category of Shakespeare's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Richardson
Ian William Richardson (7 April 19349 February 2007) was a Scottish actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Conservative politician Francis Urquhart in the BBC's '' House of Cards'' (1990–1995) television trilogy, as well as the pivotal spy Bill Haydon in '' Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'' (1979). His other notable screen work included a portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in two films ( ''The Sign of Four'' and ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''), as well as significant roles in ''Brazil'', '' M. Butterfly'', and '' Dark City''. Richardson was also a leading stage actor, well known for his Shakespearean works as well as his portrayal of Jean-Paul Marat in the Broadway production of '' Marat/Sade''. Early life Richardson was born in Edinburgh, the only son and eldest of three children of John Richardson (1909–1990), a manager at the McVitie & Price factory (where he and his wife met, and, according to his son, where John invented the Jaffa cake), and Margaret ("Peggy") Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Sher
Sir Antony Sher (14 June 1949 – 2 December 2021) was a British actor, writer and theatre director of South African origin. A two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and a five-time nominee, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in many roles, as well as appearing on film and television. In 2001, he starred in his cousin Ronald Harwood's play ''Mahler's Conversion'', and said that the story of a composer sacrificing his faith for his career echoed his own identity struggles. During his 2017 "Commonwealth Tour", Prince Charles referred to Sher as his favourite actor. Sher and his partner and collaborator Gregory Doran became one of the first same-sex couples to enter into a civil partnership in the UK. Early life and education Sher was born on 14 June 1949 in Cape Town, South Africa, the son of Margery (Abramowitz) and Emmanuel Sher, who worked in business. He was a first cousin once removed of the playwright Sir Ronald Harwood. He grew up in the subu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Goold
Rupert Goold (born 18 February 1972) is an English director who works primarily in theatre. He is the artistic director of the Almeida Theatre, and was the artistic director of Headlong Theatre Company (2005–2013). Since 2010, Goold has been an associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 for services to drama. Goold is known for his extensive work in theatre. For his work in the West End he won two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Director for ''Macbeth'' (2008) and ''Enron'' (2010). He was Olivier-nominated for ''King Charles III'' (2015), '' Ink'' (2018), and '' Dear England'' (2024). He received Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play nominations for ''King Charles III'' (2016) and ''Ink'' (2019). He made his directorial film debut with '' True Story'' (2015). Early years and education Goold was born in Highgate, England, a suburb of north London. His father was a management co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Stewart
Sir Patrick Stewart (born 13 July 1940) is an English actor. With a career spanning over seven decades of Patrick Stewart on stage and screen, stage and screen, he has received List of awards and nominations received by Patrick Stewart, various accolades, including two Laurence Olivier Awards, Olivier Awards and a Grammy Awards, Grammy Award, as well as nominations for a Tony Awards, Tony Award, three Golden Globe Awards, four Emmy Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He was Knight Bachelor, knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama in 2010. In 1966, Stewart became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He made his Broadway theatre, Broadway theatre debut in 1971 in a production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. In 1979, he received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in ''Antony and Cleopatra'' in the West End theatre, West End. His first television role was in ''Coronation Street'' in 1967. His first major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Storry
Malcolm Storry (born 13 January 1948) is an English actor with extensive experience on stage, television, and film. Amongst many roles, he is perhaps best known for 'Yellin' in ''The Princess Bride (film), The Princess Bride'', HM Customs Chief Bill Adams on ''The Knock'', and Clive Tishell in ''Doc Martin''. Storry was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. He has had an extensive career in theatre, TV, and film, including such roles as Sir Francis Drake in ''Elizabeth: The Golden Age'', Nick Bottom, Bottom in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' for the Royal National Theatre, National Theatre, and many roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company including Prospero and Caliban in ''The Tempest'' and Macduff (Macbeth), Macduff and Banquo in ''Macbeth''. Selected filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Storry, Malcolm Living people 20th-century English male actors 1948 births 21st-century English male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vocal Music
Vocal music is a type of singing performed by one or more singers, either with instrumental accompaniment, or without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella), in which singing provides the main focus of the piece. Music which employs singing but does not feature it prominently is generally considered to be instrumental music (e.g. the wordless women's choir in the final movement of Holst's symphonic work '' The Planets'') as is music without singing. Music without any non-vocal instrumental accompaniment is referred to as ''a cappella''. Vocal music typically features sung words called lyrics, although there are notable examples of vocal music that are performed using non-linguistic syllables, sounds, or noises, sometimes as musical onomatopoeia, such as jazz scat singing. A short piece of vocal music with lyrics is broadly termed a song, although in different styles of music, it may be called an aria or hymn. Vocal music often has a sequence of sustained pitches that rise an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Voss
Philip James Voss (20 August 1936 – 13 November 2020) was a British stage, radio, film and television actor. Early life Voss was born in Leicester, the elder son of James Voss, a pharmacist, and his wife, Viola (née Walmsley). He had a younger brother, John. When he and his family moved to the village of Wollaton, near Nottingham, he attended Nottingham High Pavement Grammar School. He joined a local amateur theatre and, after national service with the RAF, trained for the stage at RADA. Career Voss played roles in the Doctor Who serials ''Marco Polo'' and ''The Dominators'', Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, the 1981 '' Lord of the Rings'' radio series, Indian Summer, an RSC 1996 revival of ''The White Devil'', ''The Brides in the Bath'', two plays in the Arkangel Shakespeare and a small role in an audio dramatisation of an Anton Chekhov short story. He also played recurring roles in the TV series ''Fish'' as Ivan Vishnevski and '' Vicious'' as Ian McKellen's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Calder (actor)
David Ian Calder (born 1 August 1946) is an English actor. His film and television credits include the 1999 James Bond film ''The World Is Not Enough'', ''Crown Court'', '' Boys from the Blackstuff'', '' The Professionals'', '' Enemy at the Door'', '' Minder'', '' Bergerac'', '' The New Statesman'', '' Between the Lines'', '' Bramwell'', '' Cracker'', '' Dalziel and Pascoe'', '' Heartbeat'', '' Sleepers'', '' Spooks'', ''Midsomer Murders'', '' Hustle'', '' Waking the Dead'', '' Wallis & Edward'', '' A Touch of Frost'', '' Cold Blood'', '' Burn Up'', '' Lewis'', ''Houdini'', '' United'', and ''The Last Front''. Life and career Calder was born 1 August 1946 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His most high-profile television roles include Det. Insp. George Resnick in the crime series ''Widows'' and Nathan Spring in the sci-fi drama '' Star Cops''. In 1989, he appeared in the adaptation of the David Lodge novel '' Nice Work''. In 2012 he po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Jesson
Paul Jesson is an English stage, television and film actor and an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has played leading roles at the National Theatre and the RSC and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 1986 for his role in '' The Normal Heart'' at the Royal Court Theatre. He was nominated for a Scottish Critics' Award 2004 for his portrayal of Willy Loman in ''Death of a Salesman'' at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh. He played the Earl of Gloucester in the Donmar Theatre production of ''King Lear'' with Derek Jacobi, Maurice Montgomery in Nicholas Wright's ''Travelling Light'' at the National Theatre and appeared in Caryl Churchill's ''Love and Information'' at the Royal Court (2012). His recent films include Brutus in ''Coriolanus'' directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, Nae Caranfil's '' Closer to the Moon'' and Sir David Hare's ''Wall''. He played William Turner, father of J. M. W. Turner in Mike Leigh's 2014 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec McCowen
Alexander Duncan McCowen, (26 May 1925 – 6 February 2017) was an English actor. He was known for his work in numerous film and stage productions. Early life McCowen was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the son of Mary (née Walkden), a dancer, and Duncan McCowen, a shopkeeper. He attended The Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells - he was known as 'Squeaker' McCowen by his friends - and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Career Early theatre work McCowen first appeared on stage at the Macclesfield repertory theatre in August 1942 as Micky in ''Paddy the Next Best Thing''. He appeared in repertory in York and Birmingham 1943–45, and toured India and Burma in a production of Kenneth Horne's West End comedy '' Love in a Mist'' during 1945 with the Entertainments National Service Association ( ENSA). He continued in repertory 1946–49, during which time he played a season at St John's, Newfoundland, Canada. McCowen made his London debut on 20 April 1950, at the Arts The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wood (English Actor)
John Lamin Wood (5 July 1930 – 6 August 2011) was an English actor known for his Shakespearean performances and his lasting association with Tom Stoppard. In 1976, he received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in Stoppard's ''Travesties''. He was nominated for further Tony Awards for his roles in ''Sherlock Holmes (play), Sherlock Holmes'' (1975) and ''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'' (1968). His films included ''WarGames'' (1983), ''The Purple Rose of Cairo'' (1985), ''Ladyhawke (film), Ladyhawke'' (1985), ''Jumpin' Jack Flash (film), Jumpin' Jack Flash'' (1986), ''Orlando (film), Orlando'' (1992), ''Shadowlands (1993 film), Shadowlands'' (1993), ''The Madness of King George'' (1994), ''Richard III (1995 film), Richard III'' (1995), ''Sabrina (1995 film), Sabrina'' (1995), and ''Chocolat (2000 film), Chocolat'' (2000). In 2007, Wood was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's New Year Honours List. Early l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
