Sentences with phrase «british theater actor»

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In his directorial debut as a filmmaker, British theater director Dominic Cooke demonstrates not only how sensitively he can direct actors, but also a feel for the medium as a language based on framing, pacing, editing and music.

An actor in British theater while still a teenager, Scottish - born Frank Lloyd came to the U.S. in 1913, and after acting in films he turned to writing and directing.

Here his approach isn't much more subtle, but it suits the material better, since this is presented as a controversial exposé, complete with opening and closing remarks from Derek Jacobi, an actor revered for his Shakespeare stage performances in the British theater.

Hall, the daughter of esteemed British theater director Peter Hall, said she wondered how one person could handle the big picture matters for which a director is responsible while dealing with the specifics of developing a character as an actor.

British actor Benedict Cumberbatch has announced his engagement to theater director Sophie Hunter, making the news public with a minuscule eight - line announcement in The Times newspaper in London.

Trained in the theater, with a versatility and discipline more common among British performers than Americans, he was a character actor who could take on any role, large or small, loathsome or sympathetic.

In Sydney in 2014, the British artist presented her first theater piece, a monologue for the actor Stephen Dillane on death, families, and the nature of performance; in New York two years later, she transformed it into Event for a Stage, a moving and dizzyingly intricate 50 - minute film.