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Theatre503
Theatre503 is a theatre based at 503 Battersea Park Road in Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth, above The Latchmere pub. The venue is known for promoting the work of new writers. History The theatre was founded in 1982 as the Latchmere Theatre (the name taken from that of the pub downstairs), an offshoot of the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill Gate. It is a studio theatre. The opening production was an adaptation of ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'', which proved so successful that the production transferred to the West End. In 2004 the theatre was renamed as Theatre503. Under that name, the venue saw the premiere of works by writers including Duncan Macmillan, Tom Morton-Smith, Anna Jordan, Alice Birch, Charlene James, Katori Hall, Jon Brittain and Phoebe Eclair-Powell. It has won the Peter Brook Empty Space Award and two Olivier Awards, in 2010 for its production of Katori Hall's ''The Mountaintop'' and 2017 for ''Rotterdam'' by Jon Brittain. Over 120 debut a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Grochala
Sarah Grochala (born 9 January 1973) is a British playwright. Her plays have been performed at the Finborough Theatre, Theatre503, Hampstead Theatre, Arcola Theatre and Soho Theatre in London. Her plays have been produced internationally by the Griffin Theatre, Sydney, Tiyatro Yan Etki Istanbul, Turkey and on the Toronto Fringe Toronto Fringe Festival, Canada. Her book on playwriting, ''The Contemporary Political Play'', was published in 2017. Early life and education Grochala was born in Hemel Hempstead and grew up in Nantwich, Cheshire. She trained as an actress at the Drama Centre in London, and studied English Language and Literature at St John's College, Oxford University. Career Between 1998 and 2006, Grochala worked as actress in theatre and television. She appeared in the television drama '' Every Woman Knows a Secret'' and the TV series ''Judge John Deed''. She also starred as Jo March in the 2004/2005 West End production of Little Women. She studied playwriting on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mountaintop
''The Mountaintop'' is a play by American playwright Katori Hall. It is a fictional depiction of Martin Luther King Jr.'s last night on earth set entirely in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel on the eve of his assassination in 1968. Historical background In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis, Tennessee to speak out on the behalf of the Memphis sanitation workers who went on strike regarding the death of two workers crushed by a malfunctioning truck. The workers dealt with continuous mistreatment and denial of their civil rights. A week before his assassination, King led a demonstration through downtown Memphis which resulted in the death of one reporter as well as a multitude of injuries and property damages. The poor work conditions and pay the sanitation workers suffered angered the black community and encouraged them to speak out on the behalf of other issues concerning civil rights. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 3, the night before his assassination, gave his spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katori Hall
Katori Hall (born May 10, 1981) is an American playwright and screenwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. Hall's best known works include the hit television series ''P-Valley'', the Tony-nominated ''Tina (musical), Tina: The Tina Turner Musical'', and plays such as ''Hurt Village'', ''Our Lady of Kibeho'', ''Children of Killers'', ''The Mountaintop'', and ''The Hot Wing King'', for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Early life and education Hall's parents moved the family from Raleigh, North Carolina, to a predominantly white neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, when she was five years old. She graduated from Craigmont High School as the first Black valedictorian in the school's history, and received her bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 2003 with a major in African-American Studies and Creative Writing. As a student, she was a resident of John Jay Hall. Hall was initially a student in the theater department, where she took classes with fellow st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Morton-Smith
Tom Morton-Smith (born 1980) is an Laurence Olivier Awards, Olivier award-winning English playwright. Biography Morton-Smith studied drama at the University of East Anglia before training as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In 2006, he was selected to be part of Future Perfect, a writer's group attached to the Paines Plough theatre company. In 2007, he joined the company as their playwright-in-residence. His debut stage play, ''Salt Meets Wound'', premiered at Theatre503 in May 2007. His play ''Oppenheimer (play), Oppenheimer'', about the physicist J Robert Oppenheimer and the building of the atomic bomb, was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2015 in the Swan_Theatre_(Stratford), Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, until it transferred to London's West End in April 2015. The play was nominated for Best New Play at the 2016 WhatsOnStage Awards. In April 2022, it was announced that he would adapt Studio Ghibli's 1988 animated film ''My Neighbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Jordan
Anna Jordan (born 28 September 1979) is an English playwright, director, screenwriter and acting tutor. Her work has been presented at The Royal Court, Royal Exchange (Manchester) and internationally, with several productions of her plays in the United States and Germany, versions in Sweden, Ireland and productions planned in New Zealand, Canada and Turkey. Biography Jordan grew up in Brentford, West London, with a theatrical family. Although both parents were actors, her journey after graduating from LAMDA drama school was not easy, so she began making and writing her own work. She then set up her own company, Without A Paddle, now a multiple award-winning theatre company and network. Style “There’s an obsession with discovering young, debut writers that carries an unrealistic burden of expectation,” Jordan says. “Even though winning the Bruntwood opened all sorts of doors, I’m hopefully a lot more level-headed about it than I would have been 10 years ago. 'Yen' isn� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Birch
Alice Birch (born 1986) is a British playwright and screenwriter. Birch has written several plays, including ''Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.'' for which she was awarded the George Devine Award, George Devine Award for Most Promising New Playwright, and ''Anatomy of a Suicide'' for which she won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Birch was also the screenwriter for the film ''Lady Macbeth (film), Lady Macbeth'' and has written for such television shows as ''Succession (TV series), Succession'', ''Normal People (TV series), Normal People'', and the Peabody Award-winning miniseries ''Dead Ringers (miniseries), Dead Ringers''. Early life Birch spent the first five years of her life living with her family at the rural commune Birchwood Hall, near Malvern, Worcestershire, Malvern. Because her parents were unmarried, they decided to give Alice and her sister the surname Birch after the commune's name. At 18, Birch joined the Royal Court Theatre’s young writers programme and spent a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoebe Eclair-Powell
Phoebe Eclair-Powell (born 1989) is a British playwright from South-East London. Her plays include ''WINK'' (Theatre503) and ''One Under'' (Pleasance Below). As an actress, she appeared in ''Peckham: The Soap Opera'' at the Royal Court. Her play ''Fury'' was a finalist for the Verity Bargate Award at Soho Theatre. In the summer of 2016, Eclair Powell had three new shows running: ''Fury'', at Soho Theatre, ''Torch'' at Underbelly and ''Epic Love and Pop Songs'' at Pleasance, both at the Edinburgh Fringe. In 2019, Eclair Powell won the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting for her play ''Shed: Exploded View''. Eclair-Powell's mother is comedian Jenny Eclair. She studied English at Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u .... Plays *''TORCH'' *''Epic Love and Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Borough Of Wandsworth
Wandsworth () is a London boroughs, London borough in South West (London sub region), South West London, England. It forms part of Inner London and has an estimated population of 329,677 inhabitants. Its main communities are Battersea, Balham, Putney, Tooting and Wandsworth, Wandsworth Town. The borough borders the London Borough of Lambeth to the east, the London Borough of Merton and the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames to the south, the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames to the west, and to the north (across the River Thames) three boroughs, namely the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster. The local authority is Wandsworth London Borough Council. History The area of the modern borough was historically part of the county of Surrey. From 1856 the area was governed by the Metropolitan Board of Works, which was established to provide services across the metropolis of London.Metropolis Management ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Brittain
Jon Brittain (born May 1987) is an Olivier Award-winning playwright, comedy writer and director. Early life Brittain was born in Chester in the northwest of England and grew up in the Netherlands. He graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BA in 2008. Career Brittain's play ''Rotterdam'' received its world premiere at Theatre503 in October 2015 and subsequently received an Off West End Award nomination for Best New Play. In 2017, the play won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement In An Affiliate Theatre. He was also nominated for the Evening Standard's Charles Wintour Award for the Most Promising Playwright. Previously, he co-wrote and directed the hit show ''Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho'', starring Matt Tedford. He also directed stand-up comedian John Kearns' Fosters' Award winning shows ''Sight Gags for Perverts'' and ''Shtick''. Jon also directed Tom Allen, Tom Rosenthal, Mat Ewins and Richard Gadd who won Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Scotsman Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pub Theatres In London
A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term first appeared in England in the late 17th century, to differentiate private houses from those open to the public as alehouses, taverns and inns. Today, there is no strict definition, but the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) states a pub has four characteristics: # is open to the public without membership or residency # serves draught beer or cider without requiring food be consumed # has at least one indoor area not laid out for meals # allows drinks to be bought at a bar (i.e., not only table service) The history of pubs can be traced to taverns in Roman Britain, and through Anglo-Saxon alehouses, but it was not until the early 19th century that pubs, as they are today, first began to appear. The model also became popular in countries and regions of British influence, where pubs are often still considered to be an impo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatres In The London Borough Of Wandsworth
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a Stage (theatre), stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. It is the oldest form of drama, though live theatre has now been joined by modern recorded forms. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. Places, normally buildings, where performances regularly take place are also called "theatres" (or "theaters"), as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows tec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Roche
Billy Roche (born 11 January 1949) is an Irish playwright and actor. He was born and still lives in Wexford and most of his writings are based there. Originally a singer with The Roach Band, he turned to writing in the 1980s. He has written a number of plays, including The Wexford Trilogy. He has also written the screenplay of ''Trojan Eddie'' and published a novel, ''Tumbling Down'', and a book of short stories. Career The Wexford Trilogy Roche is best known for the three full-length plays forming ''The Wexford Trilogy'', all premiered at the Bush Theatre in London, directed by Robin Lefevre: * ''A Handful of Stars'' (1988) :: Set in the sleazy pool room of a Wexford snooker club: "If the stars are the twinkling illusion of a smile on a woman's face, adolescent longings soon contrive to send one boy up the aisle to a shotgun wedding and the other downriver to face penal retribution." John Thaxter, Richmond & Twickenham Times, 4 March 1988 * ''Poor Beast In The Rain'' (1989) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
