Sentences with phrase «british playwright»

The exhibition could be considered a way of exploring the art of the theatre through the use of other art forms, following a distinction pointed out by the British playwright Howard Barker between «the theatre» and «the art of the theatre».

Celebrating the extraordinary but tragically short life of British playwright Joe Orton, this exhibition explores the points where his interests and career came into contact with issues of crime and justice — including the inventive collages and interventions he made in library books, but for which he was penalised with a six month prison sentence.

The area also inspired British playwright Sir Noël Coward to write many manuscripts at his cliffside cottage, Firefly Estate.

The screenplay was originally written by British playwright Matt Charman with some rewrites done by the Coen Brothers.

In Bruges is written and directed by Irish / British playwright Martin McDonagh, whose latest movie, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, is receiving rave reviews.

Script comes from British playwright Simon Reade who produces with Guy de Beaujeu for Fluidity Films (Private Peaceful).

She in turn recommended Chilean director Sebastián Lelio (Gloria, A Fantastic Woman), who co-wrote the script with British playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Her Naked Skin).

Host Eric Hynes talks to filmmaker Clio Barnard about the slippage between reality and representation in her new documentary - fiction hybrid The Arbor, which utilizes an evocative lip - synch technique to explore the gritty legacy of celebrated British playwright Andrea Dunbar.

Stephen Frears» celebration of British playwright Joe Orton stars Gary Oldman and Alfred Molina.

And since I know you like Nicolas Roeg's films — especially Don't Look Now (1973) and Bad Timing (1980)-- you know Walkabout was directed by an Englishman with a screenplay by a British playwright, Edward Bond.

Lelio and British playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz adapted the book, apparently changing the ending.

Meanwhile, writerly voices don't come any more distinct than esteemed British playwright Martin McDonagh's, and I think this is where the slow - burning cult appeal of «In Bruges» will reveal itself.

Life of Riley, the final film from the director (he passed away in 2014, a few months after the film's debut), is his third adaptation of British playwright Alan Ayckbourn and, like his penultimate feature You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (2012), revolves around the theater.

Elements of the British playwright Harold Pinter come across, giving credibility to the writer - director's feeling that Pinter may have been the chief influence on his writing.

Its frantic entrances and exits — the perpetually harried Hélène more than once needlessly announces that she will «go first» — prefigure those in Resnais's several late adaptations of Alan Ayckbourn's comedies, which the British playwright greatly admires, once commenting that the director «works in a very theatrical way.»

British playwright Matt Charman makes his Hollywood debut penning fact - based Cold War epic «Bridge of Spies» for director Steven Spielberg and star Tom Hanks.

The movie, which will be the directorial debut for British playwright Martin McDonagh, starts an eight - week shoot in Bruges, Belgium.

As a character study it's near masterful, and as an examination of one brand of small town America you could never tell that it was written by an Irish - British playwright (and multiple Tony award nominee and Olivier winner).

Romance and politics, as it turns out, have a lot to do with each other, especially if you're a British playwright at the top of his game.

Waste, penned by British playwright Harley Granville Barker in 1906 before being revised in 1926, is set against a hung parliament with the incumbent administration facing defeat at its upcoming Queen's Speech — while an expectant Tory party waits with bated breath to seize back control.

What brings the subject to mind is an interview with the British playwright Harold Pinter in the March issue of the Progressive.

All together now: you write good parts, you get good actors: David Hare, one of the great contemporary British playwrights, wrote this intending it to be a feature film, but nobody would give him the money for a theatrical film.

The Good Chance Theatre in Calais, which was founded by British playwrights Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, was recognised with the Editor's Award.

Not exact matches

When the British magazine Prospect asked its readers to vote for England's leading public intellectual last summer, Dawkins emerged victorious atop a list that included the playwright Tom Stoppard, feminist Germaine Greer, historian Simon Schama, and a host of other seemingly more household names.

British actor / playwright Allan Jeayes made his first screen appearance as the cuckolded Sir William Hamilton in the 1918 historical drama Nelson.

Paul Giovanni — «The Wicker Man» (1973) From «Witchfinder General» to «A Field In England,» pastoral horror has been a particularly British concern, one that reached its perfect form with Robin Hardy's bizarrely terrifying 1973 cult hit «The Wicker Man» and its folk soundtrack by American playwright and director Paul Giovanni.

Playwright Martin McDonagh also scooped Outstanding British Film with his America - set tale, alongside Leading Actress for... Read More

Playwright Martin McDonagh also scooped Outstanding British Film with his America - set tale, alongside Leading Actress for Frances McDormand, Supporting Actor for Sam Rockwell and Original Screenplay.

Written and directed by playwright Biyi Bandele, it tells the story of two well - to - do Nigerian sisters (Thandie Newton and Anika Noni Rose), and the men they love (respectively, Ejiofor's radically - inclined professor and Joseph Mawle «s British ex-pat), as they're swept into the struggle for independence, and the ensuing Nigerian - Biafran War in the late 1960s.

Three decades ago, when playwright Hugh Whitemore decided to fashion a drama from the life of British mathematician Alan Turing, the most notable aspect of Turing's personal life was his homosexuality.

After arresting work as an aimless skinhead in Mike Leigh's Meantime, he delivered two of the most humane, indelible performances of that decade, both as doomed real - life figures: Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious in Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy, one of the most searching films in all of British cinema, and the impish playwright Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (directed by Frears and written by Alan Bennett).

Preminger's last film — a faithful adaptation of Graham Greene's dark, knowing novel about a British defector / putative spy (Nicol Williamson)-- has a good, smart script, inspired by the Kim Philby case, written by playwright Tom Stoppard.

Martin McDonagh, the fire - tongued British - Irish playwright turned whipcrack genre filmmaker, evidently agrees.

(The effervescent British import Wright and actress / playwright Gurira, especially, feel like they could easily hold their own films; it's hard to remember the last time any females, let alone women of color, even came close to creating such fully formed roles in a cineplex tentpole.)

During the first week of September the British Shakespeare Association hosted a conference in Yorkshire, England, to engage with the legacy of Shakespeare as a playwright on the 400th anniversary of his death.

Ngugi wa Thiong» o is a Kenyan teacher, novelist, essayist, and playwright, whose writing spans the period from British colonialism to the current day.

The first group of emerging playwrights to benefit from Audible's $ 5m fund will include two British writers: Gary McNair, from Glasgow, and James Fritz, from London.

Other photographs include ones of Tennyson, the playwright and poet Henry Taylor, Cameron's niece and the mother of Virginia Woolf, Julia Jackson, and a melancholic young boy called Dèjatch Alámayou whose father, an Ethiopian emperor, killed himself rather than surrender to the British after defeat in battle in 1868.

Shakespeare in Ten Acts, a show at the British Library in April, will explore how the playwright's works have been transformed, translated, faked, forged, revised and recast to suit the times in which they are performed.

She will join a 40 - strong crew of artists and scientists, including playwright Suzan - Lori Parks, composer Jonathan Dove, architect and president of the Royal Institute of British Architects Sunand Prasad, poet Lemn Sissay, musicians Jarvis Cocker and Feist, and oceanographer Simon Boxall.