Sentences with phrase «british stage play»

It made me think of the 80s, when my parents watched filmed versions of British stage plays starring people like Ian Holm on PBS.

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He played in the final stages of the World Cup 17 times - a British record - and kept 10 clean sheets, also a record.

The Conservative politician will be played by Alexander Hanson, the Norwegian - born British stage actor who played opposite Elaine Paige in Sunset Boulevard in 1995 and played Pilate in the 2012 UK tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's popular musical Jesus Christ Superstar.

Or rather, Theo Bertram, a number 10 staffer who was playing the role of Clegg in one of many dress rehearsals staged by the Labour party in the build - up to the general election — the first British general election to feature live TV debates.

The Buckingham Players try to uphold British tradition by staging Shakespeare plays for the general public, boarding schools, and local royalty, but are unable to compete with the wildly popular Bollywood film industry.

Sexy Beast (2000)-- 7:00 PM, 35 mm «A refreshing entry among the recent spate of British gangster films, Sexy Beast plays in spots something like a stage play smartly brought to screen.

It's a part that evokes the extreme physicality of Daniel Day - Lewis in «My Left Foot» and has already attracted a slew of attention for the 32 - year - old British stage veteran — while reigniting the, well, theory that British actors are just better than other actors at playing period drama.

He also starred in as numerous British stage productions, including plays at the Royal National Theatre and the RSC.

British writer and actor Phoebe Waller - Bridge plays the title role in this funny, highly profane but surprisingly poignant dramedy (originally a stage play) about a sexually compulsive woman in London.

The screenplay coming from British biopic specialist Peter Morgan, who previously worked with Howard in adapting his riveting stage - play FROST / NIXON for the big - screen.

Scarlett Johansson reinvests in her native New York accent playing DeeAnna Moran, the star of a spectacular water - themed production that will apparently involve lots of synchronized swimming, while Ralph Fiennes is a British director unhappy with a miscast Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich) in his stage drama.

And in a sense, that's true of Manville herself — over her 40 - plus - year career, largely played on British stages, films and TV shows, the 61 - year - old (who was once married to fellow awards season hot property Gary Oldman) may not always take the lead — but she's a linchpin in making a story happen.

British actress Noma Dumezweni has been cast as the grown - up Hermione Granger in the forthcoming spin - off stage play while playing the adult Potter will be 36 - year - old Jamie Parker (above left), with 40 - year - old Paul Thornley playing Ron Weasley (above right).

He is working in a dead - end job when a chance encounter leads him to MI6, the elite British Secret Intelligence Service, handing him an opportunity to play center - stage in a dangerous game of espionage.

British electronic music producer and multi-instrumentalist, will be playing a live set fresh off the stage at Coachella.

The exhibition centres on a group of sculptures designed as a stage set for Constellations 2012, a play by British writer Nick Payne which explores the notion that everything you can imagine is simultaneously happening in a parallel universe.

An actor playing an actor while a film - maker films him for a celluloid portrait and an audience looks on — that's the intriguing, if slightly perplexing, basis of an experimental work by the British visual artist Tacita Dean, featuring the British actor Stephen Dillane, to be staged next week as part of the Sydney Biennale.