‘This Is Going To Hurt’, ‘Munich – The Edge Of War’ Scribes Honored At Wggb Awards
The scribes behind This is Going to Hurt and Munich – The Edge of War were among those honored at the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards last night at the Royal College of Physicians in London. Best Long Form TV Drama went to Adam Kay for BBC One’s medical comedy-drama This is Going to Hurt, while Jack Rooke took away the Best TV Situation Comedy gong on Channel 4’s university-set Big Boys. Best Screenplay went to Ben Power for German-British period spy thriller Munich – The Edge of War and playwright David Edgar was presented with the Outstanding Contribution Award by his wife and sometime co-writer Stephanie Dale. Rebecca Hall won Best First Screenplay for romantic drama film Passing, which is based on Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel of the same name. Neil McKay won...
The scribes behind This is Going to Hurt and Munich – The Edge of War were among those honored at the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards last night at the Royal College of Physicians in London. Best Long Form TV Drama went to Adam Kay for BBC One’s medical comedy-drama This is Going to Hurt, while Jack Rooke took away the Best TV Situation Comedy gong on Channel 4’s university-set Big Boys. Best Screenplay went to Ben Power for German-British period spy thriller Munich – The Edge of War and playwright David Edgar was presented with the Outstanding Contribution Award by his wife and sometime co-writer Stephanie Dale. Rebecca Hall won Best First Screenplay for romantic drama film Passing, which is based on Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel of the same name. Neil McKay won...
- 1/17/2023
- by Jesse Whittock and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Lehman Trilogy” proved to be unbeatable in the Tony race for Best Play, as many pundits predicted all season long. Written by Stefano Massini and adapted by Ben Power, this epic drama takes audiences through the rise of the Lehman brothers, the collapse of their company, and the ensuing financial crisis which rocked the world. While the trio of hardworking actors were incredible and director Sam Mendes’ massive production was eye popping, “Lehman’s” Tony win is even more impressive because the show has been closed for months.
“The Lehman Trilogy” was set to premiere in the spring of the scuttled 2019-2020 Broadway season before the global pandemic ground the industry to a halt. Once audiences could congregate again in 2021, the production wound up with a limited run in the fall. It officially opened at the Nederlander Theatre on October 14, 2021 and ended its engagement on January 2nd, 2022.
At the...
“The Lehman Trilogy” was set to premiere in the spring of the scuttled 2019-2020 Broadway season before the global pandemic ground the industry to a halt. Once audiences could congregate again in 2021, the production wound up with a limited run in the fall. It officially opened at the Nederlander Theatre on October 14, 2021 and ended its engagement on January 2nd, 2022.
At the...
- 6/13/2022
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
Playwright Stoppard wins outstanding contribution award.
Tom Stoppard was presented with the outstanding contribution to writing award at the 2017 Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards.
Stoppard accepted the honour from fellow playwright David Edgar at the ceremony on Monday (January 23), held at the Royal College of Physicians.
He said: “For a writer, no award can compare to an award from other writers. The Writers’ Guild is a bright spot in a dark world and I feel very grateful to it.”
Stoppard has written extensively for the stage, TV and film. His plays Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties, and The Real Thing all won Tony Awards.
He also co-wrote Shakespeare In Love (which won him an Oscar) and Brazil.
Presenting him the award, Edgar said: “Like the BBC, he [Stoppard] has educated and entertained. Like no one else, he has challenged, dazzled, and amazed.”
The event’s best first screenplay award went to Rachel Tunnard for Adult Life Skills while...
Tom Stoppard was presented with the outstanding contribution to writing award at the 2017 Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards.
Stoppard accepted the honour from fellow playwright David Edgar at the ceremony on Monday (January 23), held at the Royal College of Physicians.
He said: “For a writer, no award can compare to an award from other writers. The Writers’ Guild is a bright spot in a dark world and I feel very grateful to it.”
Stoppard has written extensively for the stage, TV and film. His plays Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties, and The Real Thing all won Tony Awards.
He also co-wrote Shakespeare In Love (which won him an Oscar) and Brazil.
Presenting him the award, Edgar said: “Like the BBC, he [Stoppard] has educated and entertained. Like no one else, he has challenged, dazzled, and amazed.”
The event’s best first screenplay award went to Rachel Tunnard for Adult Life Skills while...
- 1/25/2017
- ScreenDaily
Playwright whose anarchic works were filled with vividly imagined characters
Snoo Wilson, who has died suddenly aged 64, was in the vanguard of the young playwrights revolutionising British theatre in the two decades after 1968, but Snoo was a very different kettle of fish from the others. While David Edgar, Howard Brenton and David Hare were often overtly political, Snoo was a Marxist "tendance Groucho"; more subtly subversive and humorous. Sometimes the surface frivolity of his work made people think he wasn't serious, but he was always trying to mine under the surface of things, to allow the subconscious to drive his imagination. Snoo used fiercely imagined characters in comic and often savage works that nevertheless, in the best plays, demonstrated an insouciant knowledge of dramatic structure. He was not a believer in naturalism.
Throughout his career Snoo refused to accept that mere reality was all there was – if so, it was...
Snoo Wilson, who has died suddenly aged 64, was in the vanguard of the young playwrights revolutionising British theatre in the two decades after 1968, but Snoo was a very different kettle of fish from the others. While David Edgar, Howard Brenton and David Hare were often overtly political, Snoo was a Marxist "tendance Groucho"; more subtly subversive and humorous. Sometimes the surface frivolity of his work made people think he wasn't serious, but he was always trying to mine under the surface of things, to allow the subconscious to drive his imagination. Snoo used fiercely imagined characters in comic and often savage works that nevertheless, in the best plays, demonstrated an insouciant knowledge of dramatic structure. He was not a believer in naturalism.
Throughout his career Snoo refused to accept that mere reality was all there was – if so, it was...
- 7/5/2013
- by Dusty Hughes
- The Guardian - Film News
Things I Forgot I Remembered | The Cripple Of Inishmaan | If Only | Manchester Sound: The Massacre | Open Court season | The Enough Project
Things I Forgot I Remembered, Llangefni
Shon Dale-Jones's alter ego, Hugh Hughes, has delighted audiences over the last eight years with his fantastical and deeply ordinary stories about his life and family in Wales. There was the delightful Floating, about the time that Anglesey broke off and floated away from the mainland, and most recently Stories From An Invisible Town, a project that took place both on stage and online, and which drew on childhood memories and growing up. Now he makes a show for National Theatre Wales as part of a month-long residency on Anglesey that includes collaborations with local audiences and free audio walks around Hugh's hometown of Llangefni. It's his first appearance in Anglesey, and should be a memorable one.
Theatr Fach, Wed to 15 Jun
LG
The Cripple Of Inishmaan,...
Things I Forgot I Remembered, Llangefni
Shon Dale-Jones's alter ego, Hugh Hughes, has delighted audiences over the last eight years with his fantastical and deeply ordinary stories about his life and family in Wales. There was the delightful Floating, about the time that Anglesey broke off and floated away from the mainland, and most recently Stories From An Invisible Town, a project that took place both on stage and online, and which drew on childhood memories and growing up. Now he makes a show for National Theatre Wales as part of a month-long residency on Anglesey that includes collaborations with local audiences and free audio walks around Hugh's hometown of Llangefni. It's his first appearance in Anglesey, and should be a memorable one.
Theatr Fach, Wed to 15 Jun
LG
The Cripple Of Inishmaan,...
- 6/8/2013
- by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner
- The Guardian - Film News
From Casablanca to The Killing – the elements of a great script are essentially the same. John Yorke – who is responsible for some of the most popular recent British TV dramas – reveals how and why the best screenwriting works
Once upon a time, in such and such a place, something happened." In basic terms that's about it – the very best definition of a story. What an archetypal story does is introduce you to a central character – the protagonist – and invite you to identify with them; effectively they become your avatar in the drama. So you have a central character, you empathise with them, and something then happens to them, and that something is the genesis of the story. Jack discovers a beanstalk; Bond learns Blofeld plans to take over the world. The "something" is almost always a problem, sometimes a problem disguised as an opportunity. It's usually something that throws your...
Once upon a time, in such and such a place, something happened." In basic terms that's about it – the very best definition of a story. What an archetypal story does is introduce you to a central character – the protagonist – and invite you to identify with them; effectively they become your avatar in the drama. So you have a central character, you empathise with them, and something then happens to them, and that something is the genesis of the story. Jack discovers a beanstalk; Bond learns Blofeld plans to take over the world. The "something" is almost always a problem, sometimes a problem disguised as an opportunity. It's usually something that throws your...
- 3/16/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Stage actors – with minimal scope for makeup or prosthetics between scenes – tend to find it easier to age down than up
There are various ways of measuring a play: the number of characters or scenes, the presence or absence of an interval, and the average length of speeches. But Di and Viv and Rose – the Amelia Bullmore tragi-comedy currently having a second, sold-out run at the Hampstead theatre in London – suggests a new statistic: story years.
In 120 minutes of action, Bullmore follows three college friends across almost three decades (1983-2010), which places the play just ahead of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along (which covers 23 years, 1957-80, in the Maria Friedman production that is deservedly about to transfer from the Menier Chocolate Factory to London's West End). These shows travel through history so rapidly that the Simon Stephens play Port, which recently opened at the National, feels almost laggardly...
There are various ways of measuring a play: the number of characters or scenes, the presence or absence of an interval, and the average length of speeches. But Di and Viv and Rose – the Amelia Bullmore tragi-comedy currently having a second, sold-out run at the Hampstead theatre in London – suggests a new statistic: story years.
In 120 minutes of action, Bullmore follows three college friends across almost three decades (1983-2010), which places the play just ahead of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along (which covers 23 years, 1957-80, in the Maria Friedman production that is deservedly about to transfer from the Menier Chocolate Factory to London's West End). These shows travel through history so rapidly that the Simon Stephens play Port, which recently opened at the National, feels almost laggardly...
- 2/21/2013
- by Mark Lawson
- The Guardian - Film News
With British theatre looking backwards, even the one new play that almost everyone enjoyed was a skilful reworking of an 18th-century classic
The British theatre is living off its past. Just think of the plays that left a strong impression in 2011: Caryl Churchill's Top Girls (1982), Harold Pinter's Betrayal (1978), Edward Bond's Saved (1965), Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen (1959) and his Chicken Soup With Barley (1958), and Terence Rattigan's Flare Path (1942). Even the one new play that almost everyone enjoyed, Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors, was a skilful reworking of an 18th-century classic.
I admired Mike Bartlett's 13 at the National and Alan Ayckbourn's Neighbourhood Watch in Scarborough for their ability, in very different ways, to reflect the tenor of the times. Two other old hands, David Hare with South Downs and David Edgar with Written on the Heart, turned in highly accomplished pieces. But, even...
The British theatre is living off its past. Just think of the plays that left a strong impression in 2011: Caryl Churchill's Top Girls (1982), Harold Pinter's Betrayal (1978), Edward Bond's Saved (1965), Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen (1959) and his Chicken Soup With Barley (1958), and Terence Rattigan's Flare Path (1942). Even the one new play that almost everyone enjoyed, Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors, was a skilful reworking of an 18th-century classic.
I admired Mike Bartlett's 13 at the National and Alan Ayckbourn's Neighbourhood Watch in Scarborough for their ability, in very different ways, to reflect the tenor of the times. Two other old hands, David Hare with South Downs and David Edgar with Written on the Heart, turned in highly accomplished pieces. But, even...
- 12/5/2011
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
South African playwright Athol Fugard is to receive an honorary award at the Tony Awards on June 12. In making the announcement, the kudos commitee described Fugard as "a playwright whose art has always spoken out against racism and who continues to be an active voice for freedom and equality". The film adapation of his novel "Tsotsi" won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Lanuage Film. Fuguard contended for Best Play four times over the years. He lost his first two bids to British scribe Peter Shaffer -- first in 1975 when "Equuus" edged out "Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and the Island" and again in 1981 when "A Lesson from Aloes" was defeated by "Amadeus." In 1982, David Edgar's adaptation of "The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickelby" beat out "Master Harold … and the Boys" (1982) while "I'm Not Rappaport" by Herb Gardner prevailed over "Blood Knot" in 1986...
- 4/6/2011
- Gold Derby
Supporting actor in works from Harry Potter to Shakespeare
In St Paul's church, Covent Garden, amid the memorials to the theatrical stars of their day, is a modest plaque dedicated to an actor described as "a much-respected player of supporting parts". Such a one was Jimmy Gardner, who has died aged 85.
In his acting career, stretching over half a century, he played the gamut of character roles, ranging from the statutory drunken old man in the Royal Shakespeare Company's stage version of A Clockwork Orange (1990) to Peter in Romeo and Juliet (a role first created by Shakespeare's clown, Will Kempe), to the bus driver Ernie Prang in the film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). No popular TV series could be counted as having truly arrived until he had played a cameo role in it, whether it be The Forsyte Saga, Z Cars, Doctor Who, EastEnders, Casualty, The Bill,...
In St Paul's church, Covent Garden, amid the memorials to the theatrical stars of their day, is a modest plaque dedicated to an actor described as "a much-respected player of supporting parts". Such a one was Jimmy Gardner, who has died aged 85.
In his acting career, stretching over half a century, he played the gamut of character roles, ranging from the statutory drunken old man in the Royal Shakespeare Company's stage version of A Clockwork Orange (1990) to Peter in Romeo and Juliet (a role first created by Shakespeare's clown, Will Kempe), to the bus driver Ernie Prang in the film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). No popular TV series could be counted as having truly arrived until he had played a cameo role in it, whether it be The Forsyte Saga, Z Cars, Doctor Who, EastEnders, Casualty, The Bill,...
- 6/16/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Animation, Film making and Photography training major FX School has entered into an exclusive partnership with Fxphd to offer an advanced visual effects and CG training programme. Through this partnership, Fxphd will bring its excellent studio calibre training to the students and FX School will add localization to what is otherwise a purely online self-learning course. FX School will provide the infrastructure and facilities that students will need to learn and practice also giving students an opportunity to capture their own footage through use of its professional studio facilities and equipments rather than use only those provided in the course. Furthermore, students whose primary language is not English will also now have easy access to this training. Commenting on this partnership, Abhyudaya Morarka, Director, FX School said, "Our partnership with Fxphd is yet another solid step toward realizing our mission of providing the best CG - VFX edu-training in India...
- 6/2/2010
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Animation, Film making and Photography training major FX School has entered into an exclusive partnership with Fxphd to offer an advanced visual effects and CG training programme. Through this partnership, Fxphd will bring its excellent studio calibre training to the students and FX School will add localization to what is otherwise a purely online self-learning course. FX School will provide the infrastructure and facilities that students will need to learn and practice also giving students an opportunity to capture their own footage through use of its professional studio facilities and equipments rather than use only those provided in the course. Furthermore, students whose primary language is not English will also now have easy access to this training. Commenting on this partnership, Abhyudaya Morarka, Director, FX School said, "Our partnership with Fxphd is yet another solid step toward realizing our mission of providing the best CG - VFX edu-training in India...
- 6/2/2010
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
The University of Michigan will collaborate with the Royal Shakespeare Company to develop three new plays—including a so-called "lost" play believed to be authored by William Shakespeare and a collaborator, John Fletcher. The school announced Feb. 26 that it will host the English theater company March 20–31. The trip will be the RSC's fourth to Ann Arbor, Mich., and its first devoted solely to play development."The Royal Shakespeare Company will collaborate with University of Michigan literary and historical scholars while drawing upon the university's many theatrical resources," university president Mary Sue Coleman said in a written statement. "This project illustrates how universities can play a vital role in the artistic process."In addition to the Shakespeare piece, "Cardenio," the assembled artists will work together to develop new plays by Helen Edmundson and RSC associate David Edgar. The collaboration will bring together 16 British and American actors with a nine-member creative team,...
- 3/1/2010
- backstage.com
The University of Michigan will collaborate with the Royal Shakespeare Company to develop three new plays—including a so-called “lost” play believed to be authored by William Shakespeare and a collaborator, John Fletcher. The school announced Feb. 26 that it will host the English theater company March 20–31. The trip will be the RSC"s fourth to Ann Arbor, Mich., and its first devoted solely to play development.“The Royal Shakespeare Company will collaborate with University of Michigan literary and historical scholars while drawing upon the university"s many theatrical resources,” university president Mary Sue Coleman said in a statement. “This project illustrates how universities can play a vital role in the artistic process.”In addition to the Shakespeare piece, “Cardenio,” the assembled artists will work together to develop new plays by Helen Edmundson and RSC associate David Edgar. The collaboration will bring together 16 British and American actors with a nine-member creative team,...
- 2/26/2010
- backstage.com
Can Martin Scorsese pull off a horror movie? Is Glasgow the new Venice? And what's Ricky Gervais up to in Reading? Our critics pick next year's hottest tickets
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Cemetery Junction
Having conquered Hollywood, Ricky Gervais is coming home. With his long-time collaborator Stephen Merchant, he has set out to create a British film in the tradition of Billy Liar and the Likely Lads – and of course his own masterpiece The Office – about three blokes working for the Prudential insurance company in Gervais's hometown of Reading. Released on 7 April.
A Single Man
The smart money says Colin Firth will be bringing home a certain gold, bald-headed statuette for his performance as a bereaved gay man in Los Angeles. Based on the 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood, the movie – fashion designer Tom Ford's directorial debut – follows one day in the life of Firth's literature academic as he confronts his own mortality. Released on 12 February.
Film
Cemetery Junction
Having conquered Hollywood, Ricky Gervais is coming home. With his long-time collaborator Stephen Merchant, he has set out to create a British film in the tradition of Billy Liar and the Likely Lads – and of course his own masterpiece The Office – about three blokes working for the Prudential insurance company in Gervais's hometown of Reading. Released on 7 April.
A Single Man
The smart money says Colin Firth will be bringing home a certain gold, bald-headed statuette for his performance as a bereaved gay man in Los Angeles. Based on the 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood, the movie – fashion designer Tom Ford's directorial debut – follows one day in the life of Firth's literature academic as he confronts his own mortality. Released on 12 February.
- 12/31/2009
- The Guardian - Film News
When I first walked into the auditorium of the Grand Street high school in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a surge of fear went through my body. In a few short hours, we were scheduled to perform Taking Over, Danny Hoch's fiercely passionate solo show about gentrification and the human cost of capitalism. The hall resembled an airplane hangar: a huge, unbroken rake of almost a thousand seats, whose vast walls were adorned with brightly colored murals depicting scenes from the life of Jesus. There was no balcony, no sound baffling, no scrim of any size capable of rendering the images on our video reel. To top it off, we had never performed the show in a house of more than 450 seats. All in all, it seemed we were headed for disaster.The performance in Brooklyn was coming on the heels of a free tour of the Bronx and Queens -- the brainchild of Oskar Eustis,...
- 2/11/2009
- by Tony Taccone
- backstage.com
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