"was most identified, and added ""Men still come up to me and tell me 'You were my first sexual fantasy.'"" The film is listed in ""1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die"". The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Terry Johnson's adaptation of the original novel and the film ran both on London's West End and on Broadway, and has toured the United States. There is a Brazilian version adapted by Miguel Falabella. Several actresses have starred as Mrs. Robinson, including Kathleen Turner, Lorraine Bracco, Jerry Hall, Amanda Donohoe, Morgan Fairchild, Anne Archer, Vera Fischer,"
"""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"" (for which she earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress), Turner moved to London in 2000 to star in a stage version of ""The Graduate."" The BBC reported that initially mediocre ticket sales for ""The Graduate"" ""went through the roof when it was announced that Turner, then aged 45, would appear naked on stage."" While her performance as the infamous Mrs. Robinson was popular with audiences, with sustained high box office for the duration of Turner's run, she received mixed reviews from critics. The play transferred to Broadway in 2002 to similar critical"
"production opened at the Plymouth Theatre on April 4, 2002, and closed on March 2, 2003, after 380 performances. Directed by Terry Johnson, the play featured the cast of Jason Biggs as Benjamin Braddock, Alicia Silverstone as Elaine Robinson, and Kathleen Turner as Mrs. Robinson. The play received no award nominations. Linda Gray briefly filled-in for Turner in September 2002. Lorraine Bracco replaced Turner from November 19, 2002. ""The Graduate"" ran at the Cape Playhouse (Dennis, Massachusetts) in July 2011, and starred Patricia Richardson. Charles Webb has written a sequel to his original novel titled ""Home School"", but initially refused"
"White"" playing Margaret Porcher, and the Peter Kosminsky film ""The Innocents"" playing Helen Rickard in 2000. She was brought up in Bristol and was educated at Monks Park Comprehensive School, leaving when she was sixteen. She is married to the architect Duncan Dalgleish, and has three children. She is an active campaigner for the mental health charity, MIND. Adie Allen Adie Allen is a British actress who graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, RADA in 1987. She has appeared in new plays at the Royal Court, the Almeida, the Bush and the Tricycle Theatre(s). She frequently appears on"
"Gielgud took the play on a provincial tour followed by a successful London run at the Globe (now Gielgud) Theatre. Gielgud took the play to the United States, where it opened at the Royale Theater on 8 November 1950, with Pamela Brown as the female lead. Richard Burton and Claire Bloom had parts in the cast. It was revived on Broadway in 1983. In the United Kingdom, a reading was produced at the National Theatre in 2006 and it was fully revived in a production at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2007. Thomas Mendip, a world-weary recently discharged soldier, wants"
"early 2000s, she appeared as Mrs. Robinson in a Broadway production of ""The Graduate"" which included a nude scene on stage. Hall appeared as herself in the documentary ""Being Mick"" (2001). Hall appeared in Brighton in the play ""Picasso’s Women"" in 2002. Hall now holds the World Record for making the most theatrical appearances in a single night. She performed in front of 9,124 theatregoers in London. In 2005, Hall appeared on the West End stage playing Mother Lord in the first London production of Cole Porter's ""High Society"" Hall provided the voice for Sister Penelope in the British cartoon"
"50 plays"". The rehearsed reading of Touched took place on 22 February 2006, with Anne-Marie Duff as Sandra. Nick Hern Books published a new edition of the play to coincide with this production, with a new afterword by Lowe. The play has been revived many times by regional theatres in England, including Derby Playhouse and Salisbury Playhouse, and colleges, including RADA and Canterbury College in February 2011. In February 2017, Nottingham Playhouse celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the play with a new production starring Vicky McClure as Sandra. Five of the cast were graduates of the Central Junior Television Workshop"
"the previous year. Gielgud's state honours were Knight Bachelor (1953), Legion of Honour (France, 1960), Companion of Honour (1977), and Order of Merit (UK, 1996). He was awarded honorary degrees by St Andrews, Oxford and Brandeis universities. From 1977 to 1989 Gielgud was president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art—a symbolic position—and was the academy's first honorary fellow (1989). In 1996 the Globe Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue was renamed the Gielgud Theatre. He had not acted on stage for eight years, and felt out of touch with the West End: he commented on the renaming of the theatre, ""At"
"Anne Archer Anne Archer (born August 24, 1947) is an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1987 film ""Fatal Attraction"". Her other film appearances include ""Paradise Alley"" (1978), ""Patriot Games"" (1992), ""Short Cuts"" (1993), ""Clear and Present Danger"" (1994), and ""Lullaby"" (2014). On stage, she starred as Mrs. Robinson in the West End production of ""The Graduate"" in 2001, and in the title role of ""The Trial of Jane Fonda"" at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Archer was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actors John Archer and Marjorie"
"and Meryl Streep declared, ""That performance was as naked, as raw and extraordinary and astonishing and surprising and scary as anything I've ever seen ... She took the layers of a person and just peeled them away. I thought I'd seen that play, I thought I knew all the lines by heart, because I've seen it so many times, but I'd never seen the play until I saw that performance."" Blanchett won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The production and Blanchett received Helen Hayes Awards, for Outstanding Non-Resident Production and Outstanding Lead Actress in"
"scene in the movie ""The Graduate"" where Mrs. Robinson's legs are admired by Dustin Hoffman. She also briefly played the role in the Broadway production, when she filled-in for Kathleen Turner in September 2002. Gray made her theater directing debut with the play ""Murder in the First"", and other acting stage work includes ""Terms of Endearment"", ""The Vagina Monologues"", ""Agnes of God"" and ""Love Letters"". Gray returned to television in 2004 as a guest star in five episodes of the daytime soap opera ""The Bold and the Beautiful"", playing Priscilla Kelly. Gray starred in several independent films, including the award-winning"
"Samantha Robinson Samantha Louise Robinson (born 25 March 1981, Southport, Lancashire, England) is an English actress. Growing up in Skelmersdale, Robinson attended Runshaw College and is listed as one of their 'notable alumni'. After leaving Runshaw College, she gained a place at the drama school Rose Bruford College, where she won the Laurence Olivier Bursary in 2001. On leaving College, Robinson went into work at Chichester Festival Theatre on ""Songs of the Western Man"". She played Miranda in the Royal Exchange Theatres' production of ""The Tempest"", alongside Pete Postlethwaite. Further credits include; ""Untouchable"" (Bush Theatre), ""The Owl Service"" (Plymouth Theatre"
"Elaine Glover Elaine Glover (born 1982 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire) is an English actress and singer. She grew up in Skipton. Glover trained at Rose Bruford College as an Actor Musician. She is an original cast member of Simon Beaufoy’s The Full Monty (Olivier Nomination - Best New Comedy) which opened at the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield, and after a number one tour transferred to the West End to The Noël Coward theatre. Glover is also an original cast member of , which opened at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and later had a West End transfer to the Garrick Theatre."
"past behind them, but the expectation of a considerable future in front of them."" It took Hare a full 12 months to write the play. The play began previews at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in the West End on October 3, 2002, starring Judi Dench as Frances Beale and Maggie Smith as Madeleine Palmer. It was sold out by the time it opened on October 15, 2002. It was due to play a strictly-limited season until December 21, 2002 but demand was so popular the run was extended to February 1, 2003, following a Christmas break. The show then added"
"Thomasin Lawson Thomasin Miranda ""Thomy"" Lawson is an English actress, born in Surrey in 1997, currently studying Experimental Psychology in her second year at Bristol University, she attended Surbiton High School for 7 years and during this time was a key participant in the youth programme of the Rose Theatre, Kingston where she has starred in several smaller scale productions as well as in the theatre's critically acclaimed 2014 production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as one of the leading characters: Susan Pevensie. Upon leaving Surbiton High School she performed in the world premier of STONES, written"
"""Atonement"" before taking up a place at drama school. Within two years of leaving LAMDA she had appeared in two feature films and two television series, including the last episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot. She then appeared in Mike Leigh's ""Mr. Turner"", a biopic of the life of the painter J. M. W. Turner, and the biographical drama ""The Theory of Everything"". Alice Orr-Ewing Alice Josephine Orr-Ewing (born 7 July 1989) is a British actress who starred in the 2012 British film ""The Scapegoat"", an adaptation of the 1957 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. Orr-Ewing was"
"Gwyn in this production. Jeffrey Hatcher wrote a play about Edward Kynaston entitled ""Compleat Female Stage Beauty"" (2000), and later adapted his play for the 2004 film ""Stage Beauty"", directed by Richard Eyre and starring Claire Danes as Margaret. Margaret's first stage appearance is also discussed in the 2015 play ""Nell Gwynn"", but she remains an offstage character. Hughes is the main character of Diana Norman's historical novel ""The Vizard Mask"" (1994). She is depicted as a stuttering American Puritan, Penitence Hurd, who becomes a successful Restoration actress. Margaret Hughes Margaret Hughes (c. 1630 – 1 October 1719), also Peg"
"comedy ""Very Annie Mary"", in which he played the role of Nob. Rhys would later reunite with ""Very Annie Mary"" star Rachel Griffiths on ""Brothers & Sisters"". In 2000, Rhys played the lead role in ""Metropolis"", a drama series for Granada TV about the lives of six twenty-somethings living in London. Next he starred in ""Peaches"", the film of the play written and directed by Nick Grosso. Rhys starred as Benjamin in the 2000 world premiere of the stage adaptation of ""The Graduate"", alongside Kathleen Turner at The Gielgud Theatre in London's West End. Rhys travelled to Ireland to star"
"Adie Allen Adie Allen is a British actress who graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, RADA in 1987. She has appeared in new plays at the Royal Court, the Almeida, the Bush and the Tricycle Theatre(s). She frequently appears on British television. Notable television appearances include ""Casualty"" (she played student nurse Kelly Liddle in a number of episodes in 1991, the television series ""99-1"" playing Liz Hulley in 1994, Alan Ayckbourn's West End premiere of ""Communicating Doors"" at the Gielgud Theatre in 1996, playing the time-travelling prostitute Poopay, as well as the 1997 television drama ""The Woman in"
"All Over All Over is a play written by Edward Albee. The play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on March 28, 1971 and closed on May 1, 1971 after 40 performances. The director was John Gielgud, and the cast featured Jessica Tandy (The Wife), Madeline Sherwood (The Daughter) and Colleen Dewhurst (The Mistress). The play was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre in London in January 1972. Directed by Peter Hall, the production starred Peggy Ashcroft (The Wife), Angela Lansbury (The Mistress),Sheila Hancock (The Daughter), Patience Collier (The Nurse), David Waller (the Son),"
"""avant-garde"" co-production between Glasgow's Citizens Theatre and the Leeds West Yorkshire Playhouse. New scenes were written to complement Marlowe's incomplete text by Irish playwright Colin Teevan. Kevin Trainor Kevin Trainor is an Irish actor from Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland. He attended St Colman's College in Newry before attending Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he read English. After Cambridge, Trainor trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 2001 to 2004 (making an early cameo appearance in the 2001 film ""The Hole"") and appeared in the 2005 Royal Shakespeare Company season. He is notable for portraying the younger version of"
"as Annabella Schmidt, Margaret and Pamela, succeeding well known ""Wicked"" actress Dianne Pilkington. In 2014 she played the role of Kay Summersby in the play Pressure, at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh , at the Chichester Festival. and in the touring revival in 2018. Laura Rogers Laura Rogers (born 10 March 1979) is a British actress from Carmarthen, Wales. Born in Carmarthen, Rogers grew up in nearby Swansea. As a youngster Rogers was a member of the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre Company and Upland Arts, the Swansea Gilbert and Sullivan society. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art"
"November 2, 1999 to January 2, 2000 and transferred to the Minetta Lane Theatre on January 27, 2000, closing in April 2000 after 16 previews and 78 performances there. The play was directed by David Petrarca and featured J. Smith-Cameron (Claire), Marylouise Burke (Gertie) and Patrick Breen (Limping Man). The play was nominated for the 2000 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play (J. Smith-Cameron) and the John Gassner Award (David Lindsay-Abaire), and won the 2000 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Actress (Marylouise Burke). The play premiered in the West End at the Arts Theatre as the first"
"in the original stage cast of ""The Graduate"" as an understudy for several roles, eventually replacing Alicia Silverstone in the role of Elaine Robinson, opposite Kathleen Turner and Jason Biggs. After five years in New York she moved to Los Angeles, where she has worked in film and TV. In 2008, with husband Judson Pearce Morgan, she wrote, directed, produced and starred in ""The Collective"". She plays Christie Monteiro in the 2009 film adaptation of the fighting game series ""Tekken"". She recently appeared in the HBO series ""True Blood"" as werewolf Rikki Naylor. In 2016 Overton was cast as Vanessa"
"series. Robinson was born in the seaside village of Sawtell, on the North Coast of New South Wales. After graduating high school, Geordie was excepted into The Actors Centre Australia's full-time ""Journey"" program. Geordie Robinson Geordie Robinson (born 18 June 1987) is an Australian television, film and theatre actor known for his roles on the television series """" and ""Winter"". Robinson's theatre roles include Green Cyc's production of ""The Taming of the Shrew"" (2008), as well as starring as Laertes in the Q Theatre production of ""Hamlet"", Sydney (2011). In 2011, Robinson was cast in the Australian premiere of the"
"in the Square Theatre. She returned to the UK to play Mrs. Robinson in a 2001 stage production of ""The Graduate"". Once Donohoe moved back to England, she shifted more of her work there. She had a lead role as DI Susan Alembic in the crime drama ""Murder City"" (2004–2006). In 2009 she joined the cast of ITV soap opera ""Emmerdale"" as businesswoman Natasha Wylde. Donohoe played the character until leaving the series in November 2010. On 18 and 19 February 2010, she was a guest panellist on ""Loose Women"". She has also lent her voice to the Activision PC"
"2010 that she had attended seven separate schools during her childhood. Her sister is the fundraiser at London's Unicorn Theatre. After initial ambitions to become an actress herself, she decided to become a writer while reading drama and literature at Exeter University. She then took a postgraduate writing course at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Having dared not to show any of her writing ""to anyone for five years"", her first professional stage credit was in 1998 with ""Skinned"" at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton. She has written plays for the Royal Exchange Studio Theatre Manchester, the Royal Lyceum"
"reprising her role as Lina from the original cast. Supporting cast included Matt Zimmerman and Mark Donovan. A new production of the musical was staged at the Olivier Theatre (Royal National Theatre), from June 2, 2000 to July 20, 2000 and again from December 18, 2000 to January 27, 2001. This production was a transfer from the West Yorkshire production, which ran from December 1999 to February 2000. The cast featured Zoe Hart as Kathy, Rebecca Thornhill as Lina, and Paul Robinson as Don. The direction was by Jude Kelly, and choreography was by Stephen Mear. Thornhill received an Olivier"
"Actress for her performance in the production of ""Money"" at the Royal National Theatre. Hodge is an Honorary Graduate (DLitt) of Brunel University and one of the founder members of the Brunel Club. From 2009 to 2015, she played a comedy role in the BBC sitcom ""Miranda"", as the mother of the eponymous main character. Hodge reprised the role alongaide the rest of the cast for the 2017 Royal Variety Performance. In 2012 she toured in Christopher Luscombe's revival of Dandy Dick, starring alongside Nicholas Provost. She is joint President of Grimsby's Caxton Theatre. Hodge married music publisher Peter Owen"
"and the station itself is simply gathering dust and echoes while it waits to be torn down."" All Over All Over is a play written by Edward Albee. The play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on March 28, 1971 and closed on May 1, 1971 after 40 performances. The director was John Gielgud, and the cast featured Jessica Tandy (The Wife), Madeline Sherwood (The Daughter) and Colleen Dewhurst (The Mistress). The play was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre in London in January 1972. Directed by Peter Hall, the production starred Peggy Ashcroft"
"final scene, Grace sits on stage with Carl, who is now wearing her dress. She speaks to Graham until she realizes he is not there. She thanks Tinker as Carl begins to cry again. Grace and Carl are alone on stage, when, finally, the sun comes out. Cleansed Cleansed is the third play by the English playwright Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1998 at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs in London. The play is set in a university which has been converted into some form of bizarre institution under the rule of the sadistic Tinker. When the play"
"Ellen Greene (Miss Adelaide), and Jessica Biel (Sarah Brown). In February 2011, a co-production between Clwyd Theatr Cymru, the New Wolsey Theatre and the Salisbury Playhouse opened at Clwyd Theatr. Directed by Peter Rowe and with music direction by Greg Palmer and choreography by Francesca Jaynes, the show was performed by a cast of 22 actor-musicians, with all music played live on stage by the cast. The show also toured Cardiff, Swansea, and other Welsh cities as well as some English cities, receiving a positive review in ""The Guardian"". A concert performance ran at London's Cadogan Hall from 22–25 August"
"with ""Miss Julie""; ""Treasure Island""; Judi Dench in Sir Peter Hall’s production of ""A Midsummer Night’s Dream""; ""Dumb Show"" by Joe Penhall; Noël Coward’s ""Hay Fever"" with Celia Imrie; Three Musketeers; ""As You Like It""; Jane Asher returned for Oscar Wilde's ""The Importance of Being Earnest"" performed in rep with the premiere of Harley Granville-Barker's ""Farewell to the Theatre""; The Snow Queen; Joely Richardson in ""The Lady from the Sea""; Alison Steadman in Michael Frayn's ""Here""; and ""The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe"". Kingston University has held its graduation ceremonies at the Rose Theatre since 2010 (students completing their"