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Public Property (play)
''Public Property'' is a play by the English playwright Sam Peter Jackson. It is about a news anchor called Geoffrey Hammond, who gets caught in a public sex scandal. ''Public Property'' ran at the Trafalgar Studios in London's West End in 2009 starring Nigel Harman, Robert Daws and Steven Webb and was nominated for a 2010 WhatsOnStage Theatregoers' Choice Award as Best New Comedy. The play was published by Oberon Books. The production was presented by Tara Wilkinson on behalf of Whippet Productions and directed by Hanna Berrigan. It also featured on-screen cameos by , |
Sam Peter Jackson
Sam Peter Jackson (born 17 March 1978) is a writer/director and actor best known for writing the play "Public Property", which ran at the Trafalgar Studios in London's West End in 2009 starring Nigel Harman, Robert Daws and Steven Webb and was nominated for a 2010 WhatsOnStage Theatregoers' Choice Award as Best New Comedy. The play was published by Oberon Books. As a filmmaker he wrote/directed the short film "The Bathroom", starring double Laurence Olivier Award winning actress Janie Dee and acclaimed actor Reece Noi, with music by Grammy Award winning composer David Arnold. In total he has written and directed six short films, which have won awards, sold for broadcast and distribution, as well as screened at BAFTA, the BFI and festivals worldwide. Most recently Sam worked as a MoCap Performance Director on Breaking Fourth's VR film Lucid, which premiered at the 2018 Venice Film Festival. His latest short film Clothes & Blow is screening at the 43rd Frameline Festival in San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trafalgar Studios
Trafalgar Theatre is a West End theatre in Whitehall, near Trafalgar Square, in the City of Westminster, London. The Grade II listed building was built in 1930 with interiors in the Art Deco style as the Whitehall Theatre; it regularly staged comedies and revues. It was converted into a television and radio studio in the 1990s, before returning to theatrical use in 2004 as Trafalgar Studios, the name it bore until 2020, with the auditorium converted to two studio spaces. It re-opened in 2021 following a major multi-million pound project to reinstate it to its original single-auditorium design. History 1930 to 1996 The original Whitehall Theatre, built on the site of the 17th century ''Ye Old Ship Tavern'' was designed by Edward A. Stone, with interiors in the Art Deco style by Marc-Henri and Laverdet. It had 634 seats. The theatre opened on 29 September 1930 with ''The Way to Treat a Woman'' by Walter Hackett, who was the theatre's licensee. In November 1933 Henry Daniell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Harman
Nigel Derek Harman (born 11 August 1973) is an English actor. Beginning his career as a child actor, he has played various roles across theatre, stage and television, including as Sky Masterson in Michael Grandage's revival of ''Guys and Dolls'' and as Lord Farquaad in the original London production of ''Shrek the Musical'', for which he received an Olivier Award. Harman rose to prominence for his portrayal as Dennis Rickman in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' (2003–2005). The role earned him a National Television Award, three British Soap Awards, and four Inside Soap Awards. He has landed other acting roles in ''The Bill'', ''Downton Abbey'', ''Doctors'', '' Mount Pleasant,'' and ''Casualty.'' Early life Harman grew up in Woldingham, Surrey, and was educated at Dulwich College. However, he found school difficult: "I was never comfortable sitting down. I always wanted to get involved in something, not just learn and write. I was in so much trouble I had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Daws
Robert Daws (born 4 May 1959) is an English actor, and crime fiction author. He is best known for his television roles, including Tuppy Glossop in ''Jeeves and Wooster'' (1990–1993), gruff cricketer Roger Dervish in the comedy '' Outside Edge'' (1994–1996), mini-cab firm owner Sam in the sitcom '' Roger Roger'' (1996–2003), and East Yorkshire GP Dr Gordon Ormerod in the period medical drama ''The Royal'' (2003–2011). Acting career Daws was trained at RADA. Daws appeared in the 1982 stage play '' On Your Way, Riley!'' with Brian Murphy and Maureen Lipman. He played Tuppy Glossop in the early 1990s ITV version of ''Jeeves and Wooster''. He played pompous cricket captain Roger Dervish alongside Brenda Blethyn in the award-winning ITV comedy-drama '' Outside Edge'' 1994–96, for which he was nominated for Best Comedy Actor at the British Comedy Awards. Daws has also appeared in a number of one-off dramas including the 1997 BBC drama, '' The Missing Postman'', ''Sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Webb
Steven Michael Webb (born 8 November 1984 in Wirral, Merseyside, England) is an English actor in theatre, television and film.Fresh Face : Steven Webb , The History Boys , london.broadway.com Career Webb began acting at the age of eight. After taking over the lead role in '''' at the at age 10, Webb enrolled at |
Theatregoers' Choice Award
The WhatsOnStage Awards (WOS Awards), formerly known as the Theatregoers' Choice Awards, are organised by the theatre website WhatsOnStage.com. The awards celebrate outstanding achievements in UK theatre, with categories covering both regional productions and shows in London's West End. Distinctive among major theatre honours in the UK, the WhatsOnStage Awards are decided entirely by public vote. Theatre audiences nominate and select the winners, making the awards a reflection of popular opinion rather than industry panels or critics. The ceremony is typically held each year in February or March. From 2012 to 2023, it took place at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Since 2024, the event has been hosted at The London Palladium, owned and run by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The awards are currently produced by Alex Wood and Darius Thompson (for WhatsOnStage) with co-producers Alex Parker and Damian Sandys. History The origins of the WhatsOnStage Awards date back to early 2001, when WhatsO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Fry
Sir Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer. He came to prominence as a member of the comic act Fry and Laurie alongside Hugh Laurie, with the two starring in ''A Bit of Fry & Laurie'' (1989–1995) and ''Jeeves and Wooster'' (1990–1993). He also starred in the sketch series ''Alfresco (TV series), Alfresco'' (1983–1984) with Laurie, Emma Thompson, and Robbie Coltrane, and in ''Blackadder'' (1986–1989) alongside Rowan Atkinson. Since 2011 he has served as president of the mental health charity Mind (charity), Mind. In 2025, he was Knight Bachelor, knighted for services to mental health awareness, the environment and charity. Fry's film acting roles include playing Oscar Wilde in the film ''Wilde (film), Wilde'' (1997), for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor; Inspector Thompson in Robert Altman's murder mystery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elize Du Toit
Elize du Toit ( ; born 21 February 1980) is a South African-born English former actress best known for playing the role of Izzy Davies in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' from 2000 to 2004, with a brief return in 2007. Early life Elize du Toit was born in Grahamstown, South Africa, the second of four children, to an artist mother and an orthodontist father. She spent most of her childhood in Pretoria. She moved to Berkshire, United Kingdom, in December 1994, where she attended Wellington College, completed her A-levels; attaining straight As in English, French, history and history of art. She was a member of Reading's Progress Theatre. She studied history at the University of Edinburgh and performed with the Edinburgh University Theatre Company. Career Elize du Toit won the role of Izzy Davies in the Channel 4 Soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' after an open audition; beating 40,000 hopefuls. She left the show in 2004 after four years filming in Liverpool. In November 2011, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Little
Natasha Emma Little (born 2 October 1969) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Edith Thompson in the film '' Another Life'', Lady Caroline Langbourne in the BBC miniseries '' The Night Manager'', and Christina Moxam in the BBC miniseries ''Thirteen''. Other credits include ''Wolf Hall'' (2015), the ''Black Mirror'' episode " Shut Up and Dance" (2016), '' Absentia'' (2018-2019), and '' War of the Worlds'' (2019–2021). Early life Little was born in Liverpool, on 2 October 1969. Her mother was an English language teacher, and her father an NHS manager. For the first decade of her life, she lived in the Middle East, where her father set up immunisation clinics for the WHO. By the time she was ten, she had lived in eleven different countries. Her family then moved back to England, and settled in Loughton, Essex. She attended Loughton County High School for Girls, and joined a Saturday drama group called the Epping Youth Theatre. She originally planned on a car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Plays
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Hindu–Arabic digit Circa 300 BC, as part of the Brahmi numerals, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. How the numbers got to their Gupta form is open to considerable debate. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Plays
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