"Film – Limited Release. Griffiths and de la Tour received BAFTA nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. The History Boys (film) The History Boys is a 2006 British comedy-drama film adapted by Alan Bennett from his play of the same name, which won the 2005 Olivier Award for Best New Play and the 2006 Tony Award for Best Play. It was directed by Nicholas Hytner, who directed the original production at the Royal National Theatre in London, and features the original cast of the play. The school scenes were filmed in Watford in two schools, Watford Grammar"
"future as the play closes is poignantly bleak. A made-for-television film version of ""Quartermaine's Terms"" was broadcast in 1987. There was also a BBC Radio 3 production on 26 May 1991 (Producer G. House). The play was presented on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 17 June 2006. Quartermaine's Terms Quartermaine's Terms is a play by Simon Gray which won The Cheltenham Prize in 1982. The play takes place over a period of two years in the 1960s in the staffroom at a Cambridge school for teaching English to foreigners. It deals with the interrelationship between seven teachers at the school,"
"Crying Game"" (1992) – famous for its shocking twist, ""The Secret Garden"" (1993) – inspired by the walled garden at Great Maytham Hall in Kent, and ""Shadowlands"" (1993) starring Anthony Hopkins. Anthony Minghella's ""The English Patient"" (1996) won nine Academy Awards. BAFTA Award winning films included Danny Boyle's black comedy drama ""Trainspotting"" (1996) featuring heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his circle of friends in Edinburgh, the 1997 comedy ""The Full Monty"" set in Sheffield, and the biographical drama ""Elizabeth"" (1998). Richard Curtis's 1994 film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"", starring Hugh Grant in his breakthrough role, set a"
"and Halifax, West Yorkshire are used to create the broader landscape of Sheffield in which the story is set. In a boys' grammar school in Sheffield in 1983, students Crowther, Posner, Dakin, Timms, Akthar, Lockwood, Scripps, and Rudge have recently obtained the school's highest ever A-level scores and are hoping to enter Oxford or Cambridge, taking a seventh-term entrance exam in History. The General Studies teacher, known by staff and boys alike by his nickname ""Hector"" (Richard Griffiths), is much beloved, and works alongside their deputy head and regular History teacher, Mrs. Lintott (Frances de la Tour). The Headmaster, known"
"the play's closing scene, Bennett and Judd recognise that the school's illusory hold upon them has been broken and that the British class system relies strongly on outward appearances. They begin to contemplate life anew, inspired by the example of Devenish's rebellious uncle, Vaughan Cunningham (who, in a subplot, visits the school). Bennett picks up Judd's copy of ""Das Kapital"", and muses, ‘Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all this was true?’ The original 1981 Greenwich Theatre production featured Rupert Everett as Guy. Upon transferring to the Queen's Theatre in the West End in March 1982, the production initially also featured"
"of which, ""Internet Cafe"" (2002) has also been turned into a movie screenplay. ""Be Worth It"" (2003) was acclaimed by both the Royal Court and the Soho Theatre in London, but perhaps his most successful play is ""Ledgers"" (2003), a one-act comedy taking as its theme the subject of depression and suicide, which has been performed in both the UK and US. Gardner's Micro Fiction has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic, and has featured on the curriculum in a number of US high schools, as well as appearing on the Contemporary English syllabus at the University of"
"and marked his first attempt at writing for theatre. It is based on his own screenplay for the 1997 film of the same name. The film itself was made on a budget of £3 million and was a sleeper hit, earning over £160 million in global box office receipts becoming the highest grossing film in the UK at the time. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning Best Original Score and received eleven Bafta Award nominations, winning four, including Best Film. The film is set in Sheffield, England, and it tells the story of six unemployed men, four of"
"Alan Bennett Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and author. He was born in Leeds and attended Oxford University, where he studied history and performed with the Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue ""Beyond the Fringe"" at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame. He gave up academia, and turned to writing full-time, his first stage play ""Forty Years On"" being produced in 1968. His"
"emerged as a vocal campaigner against public library cuts. Plans to shut local libraries were ""wrong and very short-sighted"", Bennett said, adding: ""We're impoverishing young people."" Alan Bennett Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and author. He was born in Leeds and attended Oxford University, where he studied history and performed with the Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue ""Beyond the Fringe"" at the 1960 Edinburgh"
"Enjoy (play) Enjoy is a comedy play written in 1980 by Alan Bennett. An idiosyncratic view of working-class family life in Leeds, a city in the north of England, it was one of the rare theatrical flops in Bennett's career. An elderly couple living in one of the last back-to-back houses in Leeds encounter a series of jolting surprises, not least when their son returns, as a council official in drag, and reveals that the council intends to demolish their house brick by brick, and reassemble it in the local museum, complete with its occupants. Following a national tour, directed"
"Bath and Chichester Festival Theatre was directed by Jeremy Herrin, transferring to Trafalgar Studios in 2014. The play won the Society of West End Theatre Awards Play of the Year title for 1982. ""Another Country"" is loosely based on the life of the spy Guy Burgess, renamed ""Guy Bennett"" in the play, and examines the effect his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism has on his life, and the hypocrisy and snobbery of the English public school he attends. The setting is a 1930s public school where pupils Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd become friends because they are both outsiders. Bennett"
"Quartermaine's Terms Quartermaine's Terms is a play by Simon Gray which won The Cheltenham Prize in 1982. The play takes place over a period of two years in the 1960s in the staffroom at a Cambridge school for teaching English to foreigners. It deals with the interrelationship between seven teachers at the school, in particular that between St John Quartermaine and the others. The dominant theme is loneliness, and during the course of the play all of the characters experience the trauma of being or feeling alone. Mark’s wife leaves him; Derek, from Hull, finds Cambridge initially unwelcoming; Eddie is"
"previously portrayed Shepherd twice: in the 1999 stage play, which earned her a Best Actress nomination at the 2000 Olivier Awards and in the 2009 radio adaptation. Hytner directed the 1999 stage play at the Queen's Theatre in London. The film was shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and received largely positive reviews from critics. ""The Lady in the Van"" tells the true story of Alan Bennett's strained friendship with Miss Mary Shepherd, an eccentric homeless woman whom Bennett befriended in the 1970s before allowing her temporarily to park her Bedford van in"
"written by Alan Bennett, and starring Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings. It tells the true story of Mary Shepherd, an elderly woman who lived in a dilapidated van on Bennett's driveway in London for 15 years. Mrs Shepherd was a musician. In one of the scenes when the character Alan Bennett is sifting through Mary Shepherd paperwork he finds a concert poster claiming Mrs Shepard played with the British Symphony Orchestra. It's unknowns if there is any truth in this claim. The British Symphony Orchestra reformed in 2016. Philip Mackenzie is the principle conductor. The modern orchestra is made of"
"goes to school, represents Newcastle-under-Lyme. Axe, towards which Tertius Ingpen lives, represents Leek. Several of Bennett's novels set in the Potteries have been made into films, for example ""The Card"" starring Alec Guinness, or television mini-series, such as ""Anna of the Five Towns"" and ""Clayhanger"". Bennett's output was prodigious and, by his own admission, was based on maximising his income. As Bennett put it: Am I to sit still and see other fellows pocketing two guineas apiece for stories which I can do better myself? Not me. If anyone imagines my sole aim is art for art’s sake, they are"
"and Scottish country singer Jill Jackson. The pair were in the same year together, with both starting Gleniffer in August 1990. Screenwriter Steven Moffat, who's notable works include Doctor Who of which he was head writer and executive producer (2010-2017) and Sherlock which was created by himself and Mark Gatiss in 2010 and has been running ever since. Thomas Orr, a professional footballer with Greenock Morton, and Heather Reid, OBE, a former weather presenter for BBC Scotland. Pupils follow the national curriculum for their first and second years of their careers at Gleniffer High. They then choose up to 8"
"in 1982. In its 1983 run in London's West End, it won an Olivier Award. In 1988, it was adapted into an animated TV special. The New Players Theatre in London staged a revival in 2004 to honor its 21st anniversary, but some reviewers noted that its ""feel good"" sentiments had not aged well. ""A Charlie Brown Christmas"" has also been adapted to the stage, and an official stage version of the production written by Eric Schaeffer in 2013 is available from Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc. The Off-Broadway drama """" centers on the Peanuts characters becoming teenagers, though it is"
"in 2012, ""Scrooge"" in 2013, ""Joseph"" in 2014, ""Little Shop Of Horrors"" in December 2015 and ""We Will Rock You"" will be performed this December. Some plays have also been staged, including ""The Yarn"", ""Strangers"", ""The Children's Crusade"" from the National Youth Theatre, and a modern version of Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales."" Tiverton High School Tiverton High School is a state secondary school located in the town of Tiverton, Devon, England. The school used to be a specialist visual arts college. The school is situated on the outskirts of Tiverton, and there is a close working relationship with the nearby"
"starring James Gaddas, Peter Howitt and Elizabeth Rider, produced by Andy Rowley which was nominated for a Best Children's Drama Award at BAFTA. The short series was shown on ""Scene"" BBC Two. Stone Cold (Swindells novel) Stone Cold is a realistic young-adult novel by Robert Swindells, published by Heinemann in 1993. Set on the streets of London, the first-person narrative switches between Link, a newly-homeless sixteen-year-old adjusting to his situation, and Shelter, an ex-army officer scorned after being dismissed from his job, supposedly on 'medical grounds'. Swindells won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a"
"that ranged from Shakespeare to Paul Temple. Bennett was an enthusiastic amateur flier and an accomplished glider pilot. For many years he was a member of the RAF G.S.A (Gliding and Soaring Association) Centre at RAF Bicester in the 1970s. He flew alongside Warrant Officer Andy Gough (then Chief Flying Instructor) and was a part owner of a number of high performance gliders. John Bennett (actor) John David Bennett (8 May 1928 – 11 April 2005) was an English actor. Born in Beckenham, Kent, he was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire, then trained at the Central School of Speech"
"Room"" by A.R. Gurney, ""The Cherry Orchard"" by Anton Chekhov, ""The Doorway"" by Phyllis Tickle, ""The Trial of Jesus"" by John Masefield, and ""Rumors"" by Neil Simon. Recent Shakespeare performances include, ""Merchant of Venice"""", Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream"", and ""Julius Caesar""""."" Members of the Company have studied in London, Chicago, New York and Boston, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, the Royal Shakespeare Company, London's National Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, Shakespeare & Company and the Central School of Speech and Drama. The Linklater method has been emphasized in their voice training. Built by Nelson Barden & Associates of"
"the 2006 Hawthornden Prize. It won the 2005 Guardian First Book Award. Recently many secondary schools across the UK have included it in their higher education academic syllabus for English language. A television dramatisation with the same name, starring Tom Hardy as Shorter and Benedict Cumberbatch as Masters was co-produced by the BBC and HBO in 2007. Tom Hardy was nominated for a 2008 BAFTA for his portrayal of Stuart Shorter. Additionally, Laurence Hobbs was cast in the role of Smithy. A stage production premiered in 2013 adapted by double BAFTA-winning writer Jack Thorne produced by HighTide Festival Theatre and"
"of the school since 1998. Fenton initially worked as an actor, getting an early break in 1968 with a part in Alan Bennett's first West End play ""Forty Years On"". He had some success as an actor in the early 1970s appearing in the film ""Private Road"", in Alan Bennett's first television play ""A Day Out"" directed by Stephen Frears, and in the soap opera ""Emmerdale Farm"". In 1969, Fenton tried his hand as a recording artist with a cover of The Beatles song ""Maxwell's Silver Hammer"" and recorded piano for the folk group The Peelers on their Polydor LP"
"Graham Swift Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born 4 May 1949) is an English writer. Born in London, England, he was educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York. Some of Swift's books have been filmed, including ""Waterland"" (1992), ""Shuttlecock"" (1993) and ""Last Orders"" (1996). His novel ""Last Orders"" was joint-winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a mildly controversial winner of the 1996 Booker Prize, owing to the superficial similarities in plot to William Faulkner's ""As I Lay Dying"". The prize-winning ""Waterland"" is set in The Fens. A novel"
"Gamart, and Bill Nighy as Edmund Brundish. The film, a Spanish-British-German co-production, was internationally released in 2017. Filming locations included Portaferry, County Down, Northern Ireland and Barcelona, Spain. The Bookshop The Bookshop (1978) is a novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. The book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The novel, set mainly in 1959, centres around Florence Green, a middle-aged widow, who decides to open a bookshop in the small coastal town of Hardborough, Suffolk. The location she chooses is the Old House, an abandoned, damp property said to be haunted by a ""rapper"" (a poltergeist). After many sacrifices, Florence manages"
"Alan Gilmour Alan Gilmour is a playwright and librettist. Born in Edinburgh and raised in Hamilton, Scotland, he studied, lived and worked in London before moving to Melbourne, Australia. After studying Drama & Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Gilmour's first play THE PIANO LESSON (2005), a work based on the Matisse painting won the Orange Playwriting Prize 2005 (best play by a new Scottish writer). This led to a successful production at Òran Mór, Glasgow with Joanne Cummings playing Hannah, the piano student who makes up for a chaotic personal life with an obsession for music and"
"Alan Bissett Alan Bissett (born 17 November 1975) is an author and playwright from Hallglen, an area of Falkirk in Scotland. After the publication of his first two novels, ""Boyracers"" and ""The Incredible Adam Spark"", he became known for his different take on Scots dialect writing, evolving a style specific to Falkirk, suffused with popular culture references and socialist politics. He also applied to be rector of Glasgow University in 2014. Bissett used to lecture in creative writing at Bretton Hall College, now part of the University of Leeds, and tutored the creative writing MLitt at the University of Glasgow"
"Bennett also winning the award for Best Actor in a Musical or Entertainment. Alan Bennett won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play. The entire cast won the Obie Award for Outstanding Performance, and Lynn Redgrave won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. Talking Heads (play) Talking Heads is a stage adaptation of the BBC series of the same title created by Alan Bennett. It consists of six monologues presented"
"just £3 million and won several awards including the 1984 BAFTA Award for Best Direction and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay. It tells the story of an American oil company representative who is sent to the fictional village of Ferness on the west coast of Scotland to purchase the town and surrounding property to build a new refinery. On 3 February 2018, it was announced the play would receive its world premiere in spring 2019, thirty five years after the original film. It is expected to make its world premiere at the Royal Lyceum Theatre,"
"time to triplets Abigail, Nathaniel and Zachary. Peter Barnes (playwright) Peter Barnes (10 January 1931 – 1 July 2004) was an English Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His most famous work is the play ""The Ruling Class"", which was made into a 1972 film for which Peter O'Toole received an Oscar nomination. Barnes was educated at Marling School in Stroud, Gloucestershire and performed his national service with the Royal Air Force. He then worked briefly for London County Council. Bored with his job, Barnes took a correspondence course in theology and began to visit the British Museum reading room, which"
"2009 whilst David Tennant was undergoing surgery for a spinal injury. In 2014, Bennett was appointed the Patron of Chapel Lane Theatre Company based in Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK. Edward Bennett (actor) Edward Bennett (born 9 April 1979) is an English actor. Bennett was born in Honeybourne, Worcestershire. He attended Chipping Campden School in Gloucestershire, and graduated from Cardiff University with a BSc in history and politics. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). In 2008, Bennett appeared as Laertes in ""Hamlet"", Demetrius in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", and Berowne in ""Love's Labour's Lost"". He reprised the first two roles"
"""Knype""). However, Bennett said that he believed ""Five Towns"" was more euphonious than ""Six Towns"", so he omitted Fenton (sometimes referred to as ""the forgotten town""). In order from northwest to southeast, the towns are Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton and Longton. Adapted for the BBC as a radio play in 1962 and 1970. Serialised for television in 4 episodes, broadcast on BBC2 in January 1985. Anna of the Five Towns 'Anna of the Five Towns' is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1902 and one of his best-known works. The plot centres on Anna Tellwright, daughter of"
"Granillo when they were at school. In the film, Cadell is played by James Stewart, who was forty at the time. In this version, Cadell had been the teacher of Brandon Shaw, Philip Morgan, Kenneth Lawrence, and David Kentley, and is currently a publisher. Hitchcock's is the only feature film version of the play to-date. In 1983, ""Rope"" was dramatised as a BBC Radio 4 Drama for Saturday Night Theatre starring Alan Rickman as Cadell. Rope (play) Rope is a 1929 British play by Patrick Hamilton. In formal terms, it is a well-made play with a three-act dramatic structure that"