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Owner's Manual for Complete Guidance to Operation
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Ull History Centre: Papers of Alan Plater
Hull History Centre: Papers of Alan Plater U DPR Papers of Alan Plater 1936-2012 Accession number: 1999/16, 2004/23, 2013/07, 2013/08, 2015/13 Biographical Background: Alan Frederick Plater was born in Jarrow in April 1935, the son of Herbert and Isabella Plater. He grew up in the Hull area, and was educated at Pickering Road Junior School and Kingston High School, Hull. He then studied architecture at King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne, becoming an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1959 (since lapsed). He worked for a short time in the profession, before becoming a full-time writer in 1960. His subsequent career has been extremely wide-ranging and remarkably successful, both in terms of his own original work, and his adaptations of literary works. He has written extensively for radio, television, films and the theatre, and for the daily and weekly press, including The Guardian, Punch, Listener, and New Statesman. His writing credits exceed 250 in number, and include: - Theatre: 'A Smashing Day'; 'Close the Coalhouse Door'; 'Trinity Tales'; 'The Fosdyke Saga' - Film: 'The Virgin and the Gypsy'; 'It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet'; 'Priest of Love' - Television: 'Z Cars'; 'The Beiderbecke Affair'; 'Barchester Chronicles'; 'The Fortunes of War'; 'A Very British Coup'; and, 'Campion' - Radio: 'Ted's Cathedral'; 'Tolpuddle'; 'The Journal of Vasilije Bogdanovic' - Books: 'The Beiderbecke Trilogy'; 'Misterioso'; 'Doggin' Around' He received numerous awards, most notably the BAFTA Writer's Award in 1988. He was made an Honorary D.Litt. of the University of Hull in 1985, and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1985. -
STUDY GUIDE TOOLS for TEACHERS Sponsored By
2014 STUDY GUIDE TOOLS FOR TEACHERS sponsored by Tom McCamus, Seana McKenna Support for the 2014 season of the Tom Patterson Theatre is generously provided by Richard Rooney & Laura Dinner Production support is generously provided by Karon Bales & Charles Beall Table of Contents The Place The Stratford Festival Story ........................................................................................ 1 The Play The Playwright: William Shakespeare ........................................................................ 3 A Shakespearean Timeline ......................................................................................... 4 Cast of Characters ...................................................................................................... 6 Plot Synopsis ............................................................................................................... 7 Sources and Origins .................................................................................................... 8 Stratford Festival Production History ......................................................................... 9 The Production Artistic Team and Cast ............................................................................................... 10 Lesson Plans and Activities Creating Atmosphere .......................................................................................... 11 Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition! ........................................................ 14 Discussion Topics .............................................................................................. -
Text Pages Layout MCBEAN.Indd
Introduction The great photographer Angus McBean has stage performers of this era an enduring power been celebrated over the past fifty years chiefly that carried far beyond the confines of their for his romantic portraiture and playful use of playhouses. surrealism. There is some reason. He iconised Certainly, in a single session with a Yankee Vivien Leigh fully three years before she became Cleopatra in 1945, he transformed the image of Scarlett O’Hara and his most breathtaking image Stratford overnight, conjuring from the Prospero’s was adapted for her first appearance in Gone cell of his small Covent Garden studio the dazzle with the Wind. He lit the touchpaper for Audrey of the West End into the West Midlands. (It is Hepburn’s career when he picked her out of a significant that the then Shakespeare Memorial chorus line and half-buried her in a fake desert Theatre began transferring its productions to advertise sun-lotion. Moreover he so pleased to London shortly afterwards.) In succeeding The Beatles when they came to his studio that seasons, acknowledged since as the Stratford he went on to immortalise them on their first stage’s ‘renaissance’, his black-and-white magic LP cover as four mop-top gods smiling down continued to endow this rebirth with a glamour from a glass Olympus that was actually just a that was crucial in its further rise to not just stairwell in Soho. national but international pre-eminence. However, McBean (the name is pronounced Even as his photographs were created, to rhyme with thane) also revolutionised British McBean’s Shakespeare became ubiquitous. -
Savoring the Classical Tradition in Drama
SAVORING THE CLASSICAL TRADITION IN DRAMA MEMORABLE PRESENTATIONS BY THE SHAKESPEARE GUILD I N P R O U D COLLABORATION WIT H THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB THE PLAYERS, NEW YORK CITY THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION JIM DALE ♦ Friday, January 24 In the 1950s and ’60s JIM DALE was known primarily as a singer and songwriter, with such hits as Oscar nominee “Georgy Girl” to his credit. Meanwhile he was earning plaudits as a film and television comic, with eleven Carry On features that made him a NATIONAL ARTS CLUB household name in Britain. Next came stage roles like 15 Gramercy Park South Autolycus and Bottom with Laurence Olivier’s National Manhattan Theatre Company, and Fagin in Cameron Mackintosh’s PROGRAM AT 6:00 P.M. Oliver. In 1980 he collected a Tony Award for his title Admission Free, But role in Barnum. Since then he has been nominated for Reservations Requested Tony, Drama Desk, and other honors for his work in such plays as Candide, Comedians, Joe Egg, Me and My Girl, and Scapino. As if those accolades were not enough, he also holds two Grammy Awards and ten Audie Awards as the “voice” of Harry Potter. We look forward to a memorable evening with one of the most versatile performers in entertainment history. RON ROSENBAUM ♦ Monday, March 23 Most widely known for Explaining Hitler, a 1998 best-seller that has been translated into ten languages, RON ROSENBAUM is also the author of The Secret Parts of Fortune, Those Who Forget the Past, and How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III. -
Read an Extract from Oxford Playhouse
Contents List of Figures ix Acknowledgements xiii Abbreviations xv Preface xix Introduction 1 Part One:Agamemnon... and after 1880–1923 1. Oxford rediscovers serious drama 11 2.A ‘young, obscure actress’ provides a venue 27 Part Two: Fagan and the Oxford Players 1923–29 3.A highbrow programme 41 4.A tepid response 57 Part Three: Serving Town as well as Gown 1930–38 5.A lowbrow programme fails too 79 6.The move to Beaumont Street 97 Part Four:The war years and after 1939–56 7.A period of prosperity 117 8.The postwar collapse 139 Part Five: Frank Hauser and Meadow Players 1956–73 9. Highbrow again 161 10.The university takes over 179 11.The Arts Council flatters to deceive 207 Part Six:Anvil Productions 1974–87 12. Making subsidy go further 229 13. Under siege 251 14.The dream collapses 269 Part Seven: Into the new millennium 1987–2008 15.A fresh beginning and a multimillion pound refit 291 Bibliography 306 Index 313 Introduction The Oxford Playhouse owes its existence to the city’s renown as a seat of learning, its chequered history to its fickle relationship with town and gown. Its story has been one of struggle and conflict involving the city, the university and theatre professionals. Wishful thinkers dreamed of making it a university theatre with a professional company staging plays for the faculties and a professor supervising the efforts of stu- dents with thespian leanings. Like Bristol University it would have had under its wing a drama school where men and women bent on a career in the theatre could learn their craft.That might have been possible for the 24 weeks a year when stu- dents are in residence, but for the 28 out of term? Box office returns suggest it is a rare city where even one per cent of residents are passionate theatregoers. -
ROSALIND-Film-Links
THE PLAY “AS YOU LIKE IT” THE WOMAN ROSALIND SOME LINKS FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE YOUTUBE…. FILM PRODUCTION TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX (1936) Directed by Paul Czinner Laurence Olivier, Elisabeth Bergner, Sophie Stewart With English Captions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFChichBoPI&t=16s Without English Captions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxBwHQSbUdY&list=RDCMUCWNH6WeWgwMaWbO_ 5VfhiTQ&start_radio=1&t=24 BBC – THE OPEN UNIVERSITY “AS YOU LIKE IT” DOCUMENTARY (2016) Award-winning British Actress Fiona Shaw Lectures, Scene Study with Exercises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bTlH-EQSJE&t=2202s FULL AMATEUR PRODUCTIONS THE PUBLIC THEATER OF MINNESOTA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (2013) Filmed Outdoor Stage Production https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDVnVpgzG5U&t=6848s SHAKESPEARE BY-THE-SEA (2015) Filmed Live Outdoor Stage Production https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTSaCh02s8U&list=PLH0M7jdxVB3vfSQjS6gAMm6M3h Ox6cXP-&index=25 AUDIO RECORDING LIBRIVOX AUDIOBOOKS (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhcLW0FaCBk OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (1950) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yOhKvUtF3c&t=5539s KANOPY- FREE Through many Maine Public Libraries with Library card FILM PRODUCTION THE BBC SERIES – COMPLETE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE (1978) Directed by Basil Coleman Helen Mirren, Brian Stirner, Richard Pasco AMAZON PRIME VIDEO…… FILM PRODUCTIONS ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (2019) Directed by Kimberly Sykes & Robert Lough Lucy Phelps , Antony Byrne , Sophie Khan Levy ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (2010) Directed by Michael Boyd Jonjo O'Neill , Katy Stephens -
6Th September 2020
Pews News & Notces for Harbury, Ladbroke & Uftn 6t Septmber 2020 : Tirtent Sunday aftr Trinit Websits: Al Saints’, Harbury - alsaintsharbury.org Al Saints’, Ladbroke – ladbrokechurch.org.uk WORSHIPPING GOD - GROWING IN FAITH – WORKING IN COMMUNITY HARBURY & LADBROKE SERVICES THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Date Service Harbury Ladbroke In this morning’s Gospel reading (Matthew 18: 15-20), Jesus is being wholly realistic. He recognises that there will be conflicts within the 6th Holy Communion 9.00am 10.30am Church, and that any personal disagreements really do need sorting out. September Service Simply sweeping them under the carpet is never the answer. In effect, Jesus offers us three ways to resolve conflicts; these are similar * Please email Liz McBride if you wish to come to the service on 6th in many ways to the three legal routes that we have today, which are:- September: [email protected] * Services for the rest of September and October have yet to be decided 1. An “ Out of Court” settlement, where the parties get together and work but we will update you as soon as we know. A service is planned for out their differences; Ufton Church on 27th September. 2. “Arbitration” in camera before a small Tribunal, which helps the parties * The services will be subject to some restrictions, including social to resolve their conflict; and distancing, face coverings recommended, and no singing (although 3. The full confrontation of an action in an Open Court. music may be played). * Communion will be “in one kind” (meaning that the congregation will be The “Out of Court” Settlement in this passage is when two people meet offered the Bread only). -
2015 Christmas Concert Artist Announcement-Edited
For Immediate Release Broadway Star Laura Osnes and Beloved British Actor Martin Jarvis Join Mormon Tabernacle Choir for Annual Christmas Concert Back by popular demand after charming audiences at this summer’s Pioneer Day concert, Broadway star Laura Osnes will join the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square for their annual Christmas concerts on December 17, 18 and 19 in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City. Taking the stage with Osnes will be acclaimed British screen and voice actor Martin Jarvis. Under the direction of Mack Wilberg, music director of the Choir, and Ryan Murphy, associate music director, these powerhouse talents will ring in the holiday spirit for audiences young and old. But that’s not all. Osnes and Jarvis will be joined by four Metropolitan Opera soloists — Erin Morley, soprano; Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano; Ben Bliss, tenor; and Tyler Simpson, bass — adding a classical dimension to the musical repertoire. This is going to be an unforgettable concert,” said Ron Jarrett, president of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. “Where else can you find such a depth of talent in all performing disciplines all on one stage? We are truly blessed to have this fabulous ensemble of artists spend Christmas with us.” Today’s carefully guarded announcement was eagerly anticipated by thousands in the community who have attended the Christmas concerts for over a decade. The free performances are arguably the hottest tickets in town during the Christmas season, and this year will be no exception. “We are overwhelmed and humbled by the response of our audiences each year,” said music director Mack Wilberg. -
Kings Brighton
Location factfile: Kings Brighton In this factfile: Explore Brighton Explore Kings Brighton School facilities Local map Courses available Accommodation options School life and community Activities and excursions Clubs and societies Enrichment opportunities Kings Brighton Choose Kings Brighton 1 One of the UK’s most vibrant seaside cities 2 Hip and relaxed, with two universities 3 New “state of the art” city centre school Location factfile: Kings Brighton Explore Brighton Also known as ‘London on Sea’ thanks to its cosmopolitan feel, Brighton is a creative and diverse city with plenty to cater for its large student population. It enjoys a great location on the south coast of England, with easy access to London, and a beautiful national park — the South Downs — right on its doorstep Key facts: Location: South East England, coastal Population: 288,000 Nearest airports: Gatwick Airport, Heathrow Airport Nearest cities: London, Portsmouth Brighton Journey time to London: 1 hour Brighton highlights The beach and Palace Pier The i360 No visit to Brighton would be complete without a trip to the beach and Get an amazing view of Brighton and the surrounding countryside a walk along the famous Palace Pier. from 450 feet above the city on the British Airways i360. The Royal Pavilion The North Laine and South Lanes The Sealife Centre This spectacular building was originally built The oldest parts of the city, Brighton’s Dating back to 1872, the Sealife Centre on as a Royal Palace. It features an exotic maze-like ‘Lanes’ are full of independent Brighton’s seafront is the world’s oldest design and eclectic contents from all over shops, cafes, and markets to explore. -
Synesthetic Landscapes in Harold Pinter's Theatre
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects 2010 Synesthetic Landscapes in Harold Pinter’s Theatre: A Symbolist Legacy Graça Corrêa Graduate Center, City University of New York How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1645 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] Synesthetic Landscapes in Harold Pinter’s Theatre: A Symbolist Legacy Graça Corrêa A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Theatre in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The City University of New York 2010 ii © 2010 GRAÇA CORRÊA All Rights Reserved iii This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Theatre in satisfaction of the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. ______________ ______________________________ Date Chair of Examining Committee Daniel Gerould ______________ ______________________________ Date Executive Officer Jean Graham-Jones Supervisory Committee ______________________________ Mary Ann Caws ______________________________ Daniel Gerould ______________________________ Jean Graham-Jones THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK iv Abstract Synesthetic Landscapes in Harold Pinter’s Theatre: A Symbolist Legacy Graça Corrêa Adviser: Professor Daniel Gerould In the light of recent interdisciplinary critical approaches to landscape and space , and adopting phenomenological methods of sensory analysis, this dissertation explores interconnected or synesthetic sensory “scapes” in contemporary British playwright Harold Pinter’s theatre. By studying its dramatic landscapes and probing into their multi-sensory manifestations in line with Symbolist theory and aesthetics , I argue that Pinter’s theatre articulates an ecocritical stance and a micropolitical critique. -
March 2016 Conversation
SAVORING THE CLASSICAL TRADITION IN DRAMA ENGAGING PRESENTATIONS BY THE SHAKESPEARE GUILD IN COLLABORATION WIT H THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB THE WNDC IN WASHINGTON THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION DIANA OWEN ♦ Tuesday, February 23 As we commemorate SHAKESPEARE 400, a global celebration of the poet’s life and legacy, the GUILD is delighted to co-host a WOMAN’S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB gathering with DIANA OWEN, who heads the SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST in Stratford-upon-Avon. The TRUST presides over such treasures as Mary Arden’s House, WITTEMORE HOUSE Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, and the home in which the play- 1526 New Hampshire Avenue wright was born. It also preserves the site of New Place, the Washington mansion Shakespeare purchased in 1597, and in all prob- LUNCH 12:30. PROGRAM 1:00 ability the setting in which he died in 1616. A later owner Luncheon & Program, $30 demolished it, but the TRUST is now unearthing the struc- Program Only , $10 ture’s foundations and adding a new museum to the beautiful garden that has long delighted visitors. As she describes this exciting project, Ms. Owen will also talk about dozens of anniversary festivities, among them an April 23 BBC gala that will feature such stars as Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen. PEGGY O’BRIEN ♦ Wednesday, February 24 Shifting to the FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY, an American institution that is marking SHAKESPEARE 400 with a national tour of First Folios, we’re pleased to welcome PEGGY O’BRIEN, who established the Library’s globally acclaimed outreach initiatives to teachers and NATIONAL ARTS CLUB students in the 1980s and published a widely circulated 15 Gramercy Park South Shakespeare Set Free series with Simon and Schuster.