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The Common Pursuit
''The Common Pursuit'' is a Play (theatre), play by Simon Gray which follows the lives of six characters who first meet as undergraduates at University of Cambridge, Cambridge University when they are involved in setting up a literary magazine called ''The Common Pursuit''. The title is an allusion to F. R. Leavis's 1952 collection of essays ''Scrutiny: The Common Pursuit''. Characters *Stuart Thorne *Marigold Watson *Martin Musgrove *Humphry Taylor *Nick Finchling *Peter Whetworth Synopsis The characters of ''The Common Pursuit'' first meet in Stuart Thorne's rooms in Cambridge, at the first meeting of a literary magazine Stuart is starting called ''The Common Pursuit''. He and Marigold are very much in love, Nick is determined to become a theatre critic, Humphry wants to be a philosophy professor, Martin is set on a career in publishing and Peter only seems interested in chasing women. The play then follows their various lives and careers over the next 20 years, and their stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoenix Theatre, London
The Phoenix Theatre is a West End theatre in the London Borough of Camden, located in Charing Cross Road (on the corner of Flitcroft Street). The entrances are on Phoenix Street and Charing Cross Road. The Phoenix Theatre was built on the site of a former factory and then music hall Alcazar before. Description Built for Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein, the theatre was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, Bertie Crewe and Cecil Massey. It has a restrained neoclassical exterior, but an interior designed in an Italianate style by director and designer Theodore Komisarjevsky. Vladimir Polunin copied works by Tintoretto, Titian, Pinturicchio, and Giorgione. It has a safety curtain that holds Jacopo del Sellaio's ''The Triumph of Love''. There are golden engravings in the auditorium, and red seats, carpets and curtains. This look is based on traditional Italian theatres. There are decorated ceilings and sculpted wooden doors throughout the building. It op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wilby
James Jonathon Wilby (born 20 February 1958) is an English actor. Early life and education Wilby was born in Rangoon, Burma to a corporate executive father. He was educated at Terrington Hall and Sedbergh School, studied for a degree in Mathematics at Grey College, Durham, and then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, also known by its abbreviation RADA (), is a drama school in London, England, which provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in Bloomsbury, Central London .... Career Wilby's first appearance on screen was in the Oxford Film Company production '' Privileged'' (1982) alongside Hugh Grant. He acted with Grant again in the Merchant Ivory period film '' Maurice'' (1987), which brought him to the attention of an international audience and earned Wilby and Grant the Venice Film Festival's Best Actor award. He then starred in '' A Handful of Dust'' (1988), for which he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stella Gonet
Stella Gonet (born 12 December 1960) is a Scottish theatre, film and television actress. She is known for her roles in the BBC dramas ''The House of Eliott'' (1991–94) and ''Holby City'' (2007–09). Her stage credits include playing Ophelia in the 1989 National Theatre revival of ''Hamlet'', opposite both Daniel Day-Lewis and Ian Charleson as Hamlet and playing Margaret Thatcher in the original West End production of '' Handbagged'' (2014). She played Queen Elizabeth II in the 2021 movie '' Spencer'' and Margaret Thatcher in the 2023 movie ''El Conde''. Early life Gonet was born in Greenock, Scotland. Her Polish father met her Scottish mother, a teacher of English, when he was stationed in Greenock during the Second World War. She is the seventh of twelve children and four of her sisters are nurses. Career Gonet starred as Beatrice Eliott, one of the two lead roles, in three series of the television drama ''The House of Eliott'' and played Chief Executive Officer Jayne G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Roth
Timothy Simon Roth (; born 14 May 1961) is an English actor. He was among a group of prominent British actors known as the " Brit Pack". After garnering attention in television productions '' Made in Britain'' (1982) and '' Meantime'' (1983), Roth was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer in his theatrical film debut '' The Hit'' (1984). He gained further recognition for his roles in films, including '' The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'' (1989), '' Vincent & Theo'', and '' Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead'' (both 1990). Roth has collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on several films, including '' Reservoir Dogs'' (1992), '' Pulp Fiction'' (1994), '' Four Rooms'' (1995), and '' The Hateful Eight'' (2015). For his performance in '' Rob Roy'' (1995), he won a BAFTA Award, and was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award. Other film credits include '' The Legend of 1900'' (1998), '' Planet of the Apes'' (2001), '' Funny Games'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin McNally
Kevin Robert McNally (born 27 April 1956) is an English actor and writer. He began his acting career in the BBC TV adaptation of ''I, Claudius'' (1976), but is best known for portraying Joshamee Gibbs in the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' franchise. Early life and education McNally was born in Bristol. McNally spent his early years in Birmingham, attending Redhill Junior School in Hay Mills and Mapledene Junior School (now Mapledene Primary School) in Sheldon. He went to Central Grammar School for Boys on Gressel Lane in Tile Cross. Career McNally's first professional acting work, at age 16, was at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. In 1973 he received a scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where, in 1975, he won the Best Actor Bancroft Gold Medal. In 1976, he appeared in BBC's '' I, Claudius'' and, in 1977, was a regular in the second series of ''Poldark'' playing Drake Carne, younger brother of Demelza Poldark. From 1991 to 1994, he wrote nine epi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screen Two
''Screen Two'' is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1985 to 1998 (not to be confused with a run of films shown on BBC2 under the billing ''Screen 2'' between April 1977 and March 1978). Format Following the demise of the BBC's ''Play for Today'', which ran from 1970 to 1984, producer Kenith Trodd was asked to formulate a new series of one-off television dramas. However, while ''Play for Today''s style had been a largely studio-based form of theatre on television, the new series was shot entirely on film. This was an attempt by the BBC to repeat the success of Channel 4's television films, many of which had been released in cinemas. From 1989 to 1998, a companion series, ''Screen One'', was broadcast on the more mainstream BBC1. After appearing more sporadically in the mid-1990s, ''Screen Two'' ended with Series 15 as the BBC moved away from single dramas and concentrated production on series and serials instead. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dylan Baker
Dylan Baker (born October 7, 1959) is an American actor. He gained recognition for his roles in films such as '' Planes, Trains and Automobiles'' (1987), ''Happiness'' (1998), '' Thirteen Days'' (2000), '' Road to Perdition'' (2002), ''Spider-Man 2'' (2004), ''Spider-Man 3'' (2007), '' Trick 'r Treat'' (2007), '' Revolutionary Road'' (2008), '' Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues'' (2013), and '' Selma'' (2014). On television he has had prominent roles in series such as '' Murder One'' (1995–1996), ''The Good Wife'' (2010–2015), ''Damages'' (2011), ''The Americans'' (2016), and ''Homeland'' (2018). For ''The Good Wife'' he earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Baker was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his performance in the original production of '' La Bête'' in 1991. He made his directorial debut with the film '' 23 Blast'' in 2013. Early life and education Baker was born in Syracuse, New York and raised in Lynchburg, Virginia. He began his act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Lane
Nathan Lane (born Joseph Lane; February 3, 1956) is an American actor. Since 1975, he has been Nathan Lane on screen and stage, on stage and screen in both comedic and dramatic roles. He has received List of awards and nominations received by Nathan Lane, various accolades including three Tony Awards, seven Drama Desk Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, three Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Lane received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2008. In 2010, ''The New York Times'' hailed Lane as being "the greatest stage entertainer of the decade". Lane made his professional theatre debut in 1978 in an off-Broadway production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. During that time he also briefly appeared as one half of the comedy team of Stack and Lane, until he was cast in the 1982 Broadway revival of Noël Coward's ''Present Laughter'' directed by and starring George C. Scott. That led to an extensive caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Friedman
Peter Friedman (born April 24, 1949) is an American stage, film, and television actor. He made his Broadway debut in the Eugene O'Neill play '' The Great God Brown'' in 1972. His other Broadway credits include roles in ''The Rules of the Game'' (1974), '' Piaf'' (1981), ''The Heidi Chronicles'' (1989), and '' Twelve Angry Men'' (2004). He earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical nomination for his role as Tateh in ''Ragtime'' (1998). Friedman gained prominence for his role as Frank Vernon in the HBO drama series ''Succession'' (2018–2023) for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award. His other television credits include '' The Affair'' (2015), '' The Path'' (2016–2018), and '' The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'' (2023). He is also known for his film roles in ''Safe'' (1995), '' The Savages'' (2007), ''I'm Not There'' (2007), ''Synecdoche, New York'' (2008), ''Side Effects'' (2013), and '' She Said'' (2022). Early life and education Born in New York City on April 24, 1949. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Geeson
Judith Amanda Geeson ( ; born 10 September 1948) is an English film, stage, and television actress. She began her career primarily working on British television series, with a leading role on '' The Newcomers'' from 1965 to 1967, before making her major film debut in ''To Sir, with Love'' (1967). She starred in a range of films throughout the 1970s, from crime pictures to thriller and horror films, including '' The Executioner'' (1970), '' 10 Rillington Place'' (1970), '' Fear in the Night'' (1972), '' Brannigan'' (1975), and '' The Eagle Has Landed'' (1976). She played heiress Caroline Penvenen from 1975-1977 in the BBC series '' Poldark''. Geeson appeared in several stage productions in the 1980s, including two for the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as an Off-Broadway production of ''The Common Pursuit'' (1986). After relocating to the United States she returned to television, playing the recurring character of Maggie Conway in the American series '' Mad About You'' from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristoffer Tabori
Kristoffer Tabori (born Christopher Donald Siegel; August 4, 1952) is an American actor and television director. He is also known as K.T. Donaldson. Early life Tabori was born in Malibu, California, the son of American film director Don Siegel and Swedish-American actress Viveca Lindfors. He appeared in one of his mother's films, '' Weddings and Babies'', as a young boy. In 1995, they appeared together in '' Last Summer in the Hamptons''. His parents divorced in 1953 and Lindfors married Hungarian writer and director George Tabori. Kristoffer adopted his stepfather's surname and changed the English spelling of his forename. Career He started his career as a stage actor in his teens in the late 1960s, and during the 1970s he appeared in many films, including '' John and Mary'' (1969), '' Pigeons'' (1971), '' Making It'' (1971), '' Journey Through Rosebud'' (1972) and '' Girlfriends'' (1978). The majority of his work, however, was in television drama, beginning with a notable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outer Critics Circle Award
The Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway. They are presented by the Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of New York theater writers for out-of-town newspapers, digital and national publications, and other media beyond Broadway. The awards were first presented during the 1949–50 theater season. History The Outer Critics Circle was founded as the Outer Circle during the Broadway season of 1949–50 by an assortment of theater critics led by John Gassner, a reviewer, essayist, dramaturg, and professor of theater. These critics were writing for academic publications, special interest journals, monthlies, quarterlies, and weekly publications outside the New York metro area, and were looking for a forum where they could discuss the theater in general, particularly the current New York season. The creation of the OCC was also a reaction to the New York Drama Critics Circle, which did not all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
