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Michael Codron

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Sir Michael Victor Codron CBE (born 8 June 1930) is a British theatre producer, known for his productions of the early work of Harold Pinter, Christopher Hampton, David Hare, Simon Gray and Tom Stoppard. [1]

99 relations: Alan Ayckbourn, Alan Bates, Aldwych Theatre, Barry Nelson, Benefactors (play), Blood Brothers (musical), Brighton, British Library, Butley (play), Cambridge, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cameron Mackintosh, Carole Shelley, Cf., Christopher Hampton, Clockwise (film), Copenhagen (play), Criterion Theatre, Crucible Theatre, David Hare (playwright), David Leland, David Merrick, Dealer's Choice (play), Democracy (play), Drama Desk Award, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Esquire, Estelle Parsons, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Evening Standard Theatre Awards, Frank Marcus, Good Fun, Grosvenor House Hotel, Hammersmith, Hampstead Theatre, Harold Hobson, Harold Pinter, Harold Pinter Archive, Internet Broadway Database, Islington, James Hammerstein, Jerry Zaks, Jews, Joe Orton, Joyce Grenfell, Ken Howard, Knight Bachelor, Laurence Olivier Award, Loot (play), ..., Losing Louis, Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith), Manhattan Theatre Club, Mayfair Theatre, Michael Blakemore, Michael Frayn, Morosco Theatre, Night and Day (play), Noises Off, Ofsted, Order of the British Empire, Otherwise Engaged, Oxford, Oxford School of Drama, Oxford University Dramatic Society, Oxford University Gazette, Patrick Marber, Paula Prentiss, Preview (theatre), Richard Benjamin, Royal Court Theatre, Royal National Theatre, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Sheffield, Simon Gray, Simon Mendes da Costa, Socialist Worker, South East England, Talent (play), The Birthday Party (play), The Clandestine Marriage, The Killing of Sister George, The Norman Conquests, The Philanthropist (play), The Real Thing (play), The Sunday Times, Tom Stoppard, Tony Award, Trafalgar Studios, University of Oxford, Vaudeville Theatre, Victoria and Albert Museum, Victoria Wood, Westminster, Wolverhampton, Worcester College, Oxford, World Wide Web, Wyndham's Theatre, 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards. Expand index (49 more) »

Alan Ayckbourn

Sir Alan Ayckbourn, (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific English playwright and director.

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Alan Bates

Sir Alan Arthur Bates, (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, when he appeared in films ranging from the popular children's story Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving.

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Aldwych Theatre

The Aldwych Theatre is a West End theatre, located in Aldwych in the City of Westminster.

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Barry Nelson

Barry Nelson (born Haakon Robert Nielsen, April 16, 1917 – April 7, 2007) was an American actor, noted as the first actor to portray Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond.

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Benefactors (play)

Benefactors is a 1984 play by Michael Frayn.

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Blood Brothers (musical)

Blood Brothers is a musical with book, lyrics, and music by Willy Russell.

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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England which is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, 47 miles (75 km) south of London.

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British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest national library in the world by number of items catalogued.

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Butley (play)

Butley is a play by Simon Gray set in the office of an English lecturer at a university in London, England.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Cambridge Arts Theatre

Cambridge Arts Theatre is a 666-seat theatre on Peas Hill and St Edward's Passage in central Cambridge, England.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

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Cameron Mackintosh

Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh (born 17 October 1946) is a British theatrical producer and theatre owner notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals.

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Carole Shelley

Carole Shelley (born 16 August 1939) is an English actress.

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Cf.

The abbreviation cf. (short for the confer/conferatur, both meaning "compare") is used in writing to refer the reader to other material to make a comparison with the topic being discussed.

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Christopher Hampton

Christopher James Hampton, CBE, FRSL (born 26 January 1946) is a British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director.

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Clockwise (film)

Clockwise is a 1986 British comedy film starring John Cleese, directed by Christopher Morahan, written by Michael Frayn and produced by Michael Codron.

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Copenhagen (play)

Copenhagen is a play by Michael Frayn, based on an event that occurred in Copenhagen in 1941, a meeting between the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg.

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Criterion Theatre

The Criterion Theatre is a West End theatre at Piccadilly Circus in the City of Westminster, and is a Grade II* listed building.

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Crucible Theatre

The Crucible Theatre (often referred to simply as "The Crucible") is a theatre in the city centre of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England which opened in 1971, As well as theatrical performances, it hosts the most prestigious event in professional snooker, the World Championship.

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David Hare (playwright)

Sir David Hare (born 5 June 1947) is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director.

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David Leland

David Leland (born 20 April 1947) is a film director, screenwriter and actor who came to international fame with his directorial debut Wish You Were Here in 1987.

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David Merrick

David Merrick (November 27, 1911 – April 25, 2000) was a prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer.

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Dealer's Choice (play)

Dealer's Choice is a play by Patrick Marber first performed at the Royal National Theatre (Cottesloe) in London in February 1995 where it won both the 1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and the Writers' Guild Award for Best West End Play.

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Democracy (play)

Democracy is a play by Michael Frayn which premiered in London at the Royal National Theatre on September 9, 2003.

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Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk Awards are presented annually and were first awarded in 1955 to recognize excellence in New York theatre productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway.

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Entertaining Mr Sloane

Entertaining Mr Sloane is a play by the English playwright Joe Orton.

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Esquire

Esquire (abbreviated Esq.) is usually a courtesy title.

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Estelle Parsons

Estelle Margaret Parsons (born November 20, 1927) is an American actress, singer and stage director.

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Ethel Barrymore Theatre

The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 243 West 47th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Evening Standard Theatre Awards

The Evening Standard Theatre Awards, established in 1955, are the oldest theatrical awards ceremony in the United Kingdom.

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Frank Marcus

Frank Ulrich Marcus (30 June 1928 – 5 August 1996) was a British playwright, best known for The Killing of Sister George.

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Good Fun

Good Fun is a play by Victoria Wood, first performed in 1980.

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Grosvenor House Hotel

Grosvenor House is a luxury hotel that opened in 1929 in the Mayfair area of London, England.

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Hammersmith

Hammersmith is a district of west London, England, located west-southwest of Charing Cross.

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Hampstead Theatre

Hampstead Theatre is a theatre in South Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden.

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Harold Hobson

Sir Harold Hobson (4 August 1904 – 12 March 1992) was an English drama critic and author.

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Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor.

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Harold Pinter Archive

The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library is the literary archive of Harold Pinter, which Pinter had first placed "on permanent loan" in the British Library in September 1993See Merritt, "The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library"; Gale and Hudgins; and Baker and Ross.

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Internet Broadway Database

The Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel.

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Islington

Islington is a district in Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington.

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James Hammerstein

James Blanchard Hammerstein (March 23, 1931 – January 7, 1999) was an American theatre director and producer.

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Jerry Zaks

Jerry Zaks (born September 7, 1946) is a German-born American stage and television director, and actor.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Joe Orton

John Kingsley "Joe" Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967) was an English playwright and author.

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Joyce Grenfell

Joyce Irene Grenfell, OBE (née Phipps; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was a British comedian, singer, actress and monologist, and one of the country's best loved entertainers, immortalised in roles such as the gym mistress Miss Gossage in the 1950 film The Happiest Days of Your Life and Ruby Gates in the St Trinian's films.

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Ken Howard

Kenneth Joseph Howard Jr. (March 28, 1944 – March 23, 2016) was an American actor, best known for his roles as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 and as basketball coach and former Chicago Bulls player Ken Reeves in the television show The White Shadow (1978–1981).

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Knight Bachelor

The dignity of Knight Bachelor is the most basic and lowest rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.

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Laurence Olivier Award

The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply the Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London at an annual ceremony in the capital.

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Loot (play)

Loot is a two-act play by the English playwright Joe Orton.

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Losing Louis

Losing Louis, a play by Simon Mendes da Costa, is a black comedy which first premiered at Hampstead Theatre on 26 January 2005 and later transferred to Trafalgar Studios.

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Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith)

The Lyric Theatre, also known as the Lyric Hammersmith, is a theatre in King Street, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, which takes pride in its original, "groundbreaking" productions.

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Manhattan Theatre Club

Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) is a theatre company located in New York City, affiliated with the League of Resident Theatres.

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Mayfair Theatre

The Mayfair Theatre is a cinema located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Michael Blakemore

Michael Howell Blakemore OBE (born 18 June 1928) is an Australian actor, writer and theatre director who has also made a handful of films.

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Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn, FRSL (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist.

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Morosco Theatre

The Morosco Theatre was a Broadway theatre near Times Square in New York City from 1917 to 1982.

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Night and Day (play)

Night and Day is a 1978 play by Tom Stoppard.

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Noises Off

Noises Off is a 1982 play by the English playwright Michael Frayn.

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Ofsted

The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial department of the UK government, reporting to Parliament.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Otherwise Engaged

Otherwise Engaged is a bleakly comic play by English playwright Simon Gray.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Oxford School of Drama

The Oxford School of Drama is a drama school in the United Kingdom.

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Oxford University Dramatic Society

The Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) is the principal funding body and provider of theatrical services to the many independent student productions put on by students in Oxford, England.

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Oxford University Gazette

The Oxford University Gazette (often simply known as the Gazette locally) is the publication of record for the University of Oxford in England, used for official announcements.

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Patrick Marber

Patrick Albert Crispin Marber (born 19 September 1964) is an English comedian, playwright, director, actor, and screenwriter.

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Paula Prentiss

Paula Prentiss (born Paula Ragusa; March 4, 1938) is an American actress best known for her film roles in Where the Boys Are, Man's Favorite Sport?, The Stepford Wives, What's New Pussycat?, In Harm's Way, The Black Marble, and The Parallax View,, Yahoo! and the cult television series He & She.

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Preview (theatre)

Previews are a set of public performances of a theatrical presentation that precede its official opening.

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Richard Benjamin

Richard Samuel Benjamin (born May 22, 1938) is an American actor and film director.

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Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England.

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Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) is one of the United Kingdom's three most prominent publicly funded performing arts venues, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House.

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Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

The Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (formerly the Biltmore Theatre) is a Broadway theatre located at 261 West 47th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England.

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Simon Gray

Simon James Holliday Gray, CBE (21 October 1936 – 7 August 2008) was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years.

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Simon Mendes da Costa

Simon Mendes da Costa is a British playwright.

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Socialist Worker

Socialist Worker is the name of a number of newspapers currently or formerly associated with the International Socialist Tendency (IST).

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South East England

South East England is the most populous of the nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

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Talent (play)

Talent is a play written by Victoria Wood, first performed in 1978.

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The Birthday Party (play)

The Birthday Party (1957) is the second full-length play by Harold Pinter.

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The Clandestine Marriage

The Clandestine Marriage is a comedy by George Colman the Elder and David Garrick, first performed in 1766 at Drury Lane.

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The Killing of Sister George

The Killing of Sister George is a 1964 play by Frank Marcus that was later adapted into a 1968 film directed by Robert Aldrich.

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The Norman Conquests

The Norman Conquests is a trilogy of plays written in 1973 by Alan Ayckbourn.

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The Philanthropist (play)

The Philanthropist is a play by Christopher Hampton, written as a response to Molière's The Misanthrope.

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The Real Thing (play)

The Real Thing is a play by Tom Stoppard that was first performed in 1982.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the "quality press" market category.

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Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.

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Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Trafalgar Studios

Trafalgar Studios, formerly the Whitehall Theatre until 2004, is a West End theatre in Whitehall, near Trafalgar Square, in the City of Westminster, London.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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Vaudeville Theatre

The Vaudeville Theatre is a West End theatre on the Strand in the City of Westminster.

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Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects.

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Victoria Wood

Victoria Wood, (19 May 1953 – 20 April 2016) was an English comedian, actress, singer and songwriter, screenwriter, producer and director.

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Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London within the City of Westminster, part of the West End, on the north bank of the River Thames.

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Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

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Worcester College, Oxford

Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet.

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Wyndham's Theatre

Wyndham's Theatre is a West End theatre, one of two opened by the actor/manager Charles Wyndham (the other is the Criterion Theatre).

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2010 Laurence Olivier Awards

The 2010 Olivier Awards were held on 21 March 2010 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London.

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References

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