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Theatre Night

Index Theatre Night

Theatre Night is the umbrella title under which adaptations of classic and contemporary stage plays were usually broadcast on BBC 2 between 15 September 1985 and 21 July 1990. [1]

189 relations: Absent Friends (play), Adrian Dunbar, Alan Ayckbourn, Alan Rickman, Alan Shallcross, Alec McCowen, Alison Steadman, Amanda Redman, Andrew Burt, Anna Calder-Marshall, Antony Sher, Arms and the Man, Arthur Wing Pinero, August Strindberg, Avril Angers, Barbara Flynn, BBC Two, Benefactors (play), Benjamin Whitrow, Bernard Archard, Bernard Hepton, Bill Alexander (director), Bingo (play), Brenda Bruce, Cedric Messina, Christopher Benjamin, Christopher Bowen, Clive Swift, Colin Blakely, Cyril Shaps, David Bradley (actor), David Graham (actor), David Hare (playwright), David Jones (director), David Storey, David Suchet, David Troughton, Dearbhla Molloy, Dinsdale Landen, Don Taylor (English director and playwright), Donald Sinden, Dorothy Tutin, Dusty Hughes (playwright), Edward Bond, Edward Fox (actor), Elijah Moshinsky, Elizabeth Spriggs, Emma Thompson, Fiona Shaw, Franz Kafka, ..., Freddie Jones, Gary Olsen, Gawn Grainger, Gemma Jones, George Bernard Shaw, Ghosts (play), Gordon Jackson (actor), Gwen Watford, Harold Pinter, Harriet Walter, Helena Bonham Carter, Helena Little, Henrik Ibsen, Hywel Bennett, Ian McKellen, Ian Richardson, Imogen Boorman, Imogen Stubbs, Irene Handl, James Cellan Jones, James Saxon (actor), Jane Lapotaire, Janet McTeer, Janet Suzman, Jason Durr, Jim Broadbent, Jim Goddard, Jimmy Jewel, Joan Ann Maynard, Joan Plowright, Joe Orton, John Cater, John Galsworthy, John Millington Synge, John Nettleton (actor), John Woodnutt, Judi Dench, Julia McKenzie, Julie Walters, Kate Buffery, Kenneth Branagh, Kenneth Cranham, Kenneth Haigh, Kenneth Ives, Kika Markham, Lady Windermere's Fan, Larry Lamb, Leo McKern, Linda Marlowe, Louis Marks, Martin Jarvis (actor), Maureen Lipman, Mermaid Theatre, Michael Darlow, Michael Frayn, Michael Gambon, Michael Grandage, Michael Hordern, Michael Kitchen, Michael Maloney, Michelle Fairley, Mike Gwilym, Mikhail Bulgakov, Miranda Richardson, Miss Julie, Moira Armstrong, Molière, Mustapha Matura, Natalie Ogle, Natasha Richardson, Nicholas Jones (actor), Nigel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Othello, Patricia Brake, Patrick Godfrey, Patrick Malahide, Patrick Newell, Patrick Ryecart, Patrick Stewart, Patsy Kensit, Patsy Smart, Paul McGann, Peter Hawkins, Peter Jeffrey, Peter Vaughan, Philip Locke, Pip Torrens, Play of the Month, Prunella Scales, Ram John Holder, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Robert Hardy, Robert Lang (actor), Roger Lloyd-Pack, Ron Cook, Ronald Pickup, Rosemary Leach, Roy Marsden, Royal Shakespeare Company, Rudolph Walker, Samantha Bond, Saskia Reeves, Sebastian Shaw (actor), Shaun Sutton, Sheila Hancock, Stephanie Turner, Steven Berkoff, Strife (play), Stuart Burge, Suzanne Burden, Sylvia Coleridge, Tartuffe, Tenniel Evans, Terence Rattigan, Tessa Peake-Jones, The Birthday Party (play), The Devil's Disciple, The Father (Strindberg play), The Importance of Being Earnest, The Master Builder, The Metamorphosis, The Miser, The Playboy of the Western World, The Rivals, The Winslow Boy, Tim Preece, Tim Roth, Tim Woodward, Timothy West, Tom Courtenay, Trelawny of the 'Wells', Trevor Nunn, Vivian Pickles, What the Butler Saw (play), Willard White, William Shakespeare, Wolf Kahler, Zoë Wanamaker. Expand index (139 more) »

Absent Friends (play)

Absent Friends is a 1974 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn.

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Adrian Dunbar

Adrian Dunbar (born 1 August 1958) is an actor and director from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, best known for his television and theatre work.

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Alan Ayckbourn

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

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Alan Rickman

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (21 February 1946 – 14 January 2016) was an English actor and director known for playing a variety of roles on stage, television and film.

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Alan Shallcross

Alan Shallcross (8 June 1932 in Heswell, Cheshire (now Merseyside) – 22 December 2010) was a British television producer Educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where his contemporaries were Alan Bennett and Russell Harty,Sandra Harris, The Guardian, 14 February 2011 (webpage published the previous day) he joined BBC Television initially working as a programme planner.

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Alec McCowen

Alexander Duncan McCowen, (26 May 1925 – 6 February 2017) was an English actor.

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Alison Steadman

Alison Steadman, (born 26 August 1946) is an English actress.

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Amanda Redman

Amanda Jacqueline Redman, MBE (born 12 August 1957) is an English actress, known for her role as Sandra Pullman in the BBC One series New Tricks (2003–13) and as Dr.

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Andrew Burt

Andrew Burt (born 23 May 1945 in Wakefield, England) is a retired English actor and voiceover artist, who has appeared in many British TV drama series from the 1970s to the present day.

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Anna Calder-Marshall

Anna Calder-Marshall (born 11 January 1947) is an English actress.

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Antony Sher

Sir Antony Sher, KBE (born 14 June 1949) is a British actor of South African origin, a two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and four-time nominee, who joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in many roles, as well as appearing on film and TV, and working as a writer and theatre director.

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Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid, in Latin: Arma virumque cano ("Of arms and the man I sing").

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Arthur Wing Pinero

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (24 May 1855 – 23 November 1934) was an English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director.

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August Strindberg

Johan August Strindberg (22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.

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Avril Angers

Florence Avril Angers (18 April 1918 – 9 November 2005) was an English stand-up comedian and actress.

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Barbara Flynn

Barbara Flynn (born Barbara Joy McMurray; 5 August 1948) is an English actress.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Benefactors (play)

Benefactors is a 1984 play by Michael Frayn.

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Benjamin Whitrow

Benjamin John Whitrow (17 February 1937 – 28 September 2017) was an English actor.

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Bernard Archard

Bernard Joseph Archard (20 August 1916 – 1 May 2008) was an English actor who made numerous film and television appearances.

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Bernard Hepton

Francis Bernard Heptonstall (born 19 October 1925) as stage name Bernard Hepton, is a British actor and director of stage, film and television.

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Bill Alexander (director)

William Alexander Paterson (born 23 February 1948) known professionally as Bill Alexander is a British theatre director who is best known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and as artistic director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

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Bingo (play)

Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death is a 1973 play by English Marxist playwright Edward Bond.

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Brenda Bruce

Brenda Bruce OBE (7 July 1919Some sources cite 17 July 1919. – 19 February 1996) was a British actress.

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Cedric Messina

Cedric Messina (14 December 1920 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa — 30 April 1993 in London) was a South-African born British television producer and director who worked for the BBC and is best remembered for his involvement in television productions of classic drama.

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Christopher Benjamin

Christopher Benjamin (born 27 December 1934) is an English actor, well known for portraying Henry Gordon Jago in Doctor Who.

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Christopher Bowen

Christopher Bowen (born 20 October 1959) is a British actor.

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Clive Swift

Clive Walter Swift (born 9 February 1936) is an English actor and songwriter.

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Colin Blakely

Colin George Blakely (23 September 1930 – 7 May 1987) was a Northern Irish character actor.

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Cyril Shaps

Cyril Leonard Shaps (13 October 1923 – 1 January 2003) was an English actor of radio, television and film, writer, producer and voice artist of Polish Jewish descent, with a successful career spanning over seven decades, perhaps best known for his appearance in the film The Pianist.

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David Bradley (actor)

David John Bradley (born 17 April 1942) is an English actor.

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David Graham (actor)

David Graham (born 1924 or 1925) is an English character actor and voice artist.

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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 Jones (director)

David Hugh Jones (19 February 1934 – 19 September 2008) was an English stage, television and film director.

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David Storey

David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league player.

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David Suchet

David Suchet, (born 2 May 1946) is an English actor, known for his work on British stage and television.

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David Troughton

David Troughton (born 9 June 1950 in Hampstead, London) is an English actor, known for his Shakespearean roles on the British stage and for his many roles on British television, including Dr Bob Buzzard in A Very Peculiar Practice and Ricky Hansen in New Tricks.

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Dearbhla Molloy

Dearbhla Molloy (born 1946, Dublin) is an Irish film, stage and television actress.

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Dinsdale Landen

Dinsdale James Landen (4 September 1932 – 29 December 2003) was a British actor whom The Independent named as an "outstanding actor with the qualities of a true farceur," who became perhaps best known for his television appearances.

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Don Taylor (English director and playwright)

Donald Victor Taylor (30 June 1936 – 11 November 2003; usually credited as Don Taylor) was an English writer, director and producer, active across theatre, radio and television for over forty years.

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Donald Sinden

Sir Donald Alfred Sinden, CBE, FRSA (9 October 1923 – 12 September 2014) was an English actor in theatre, film, television and radio as well as an author.

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Dorothy Tutin

Dame Dorothy Tutin, (8 April 19306 August 2001) was an English actress of stage, film and television.

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Dusty Hughes (playwright)

Dusty Hughes (born 16 Sept 1947) is an English playwright and director, writing for both the theatre and television.

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Edward Bond

Edward Bond (born 18 July 1934) is an English playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter.

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Edward Fox (actor)

Edward Charles Morice Fox, (born 13 April 1937) is an English stage, film and television actor.

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Elijah Moshinsky

Elijah Moshinsky (born 8 January 1946) is an Australian opera director, theatre director and television director who has worked at the Royal Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal National Theatre, BBC Television and numerous other venues.

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Elizabeth Spriggs

Elizabeth Spriggs (18 September 1929 – 2 July 2008) was an English character actress.

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Emma Thompson

Dame Emma Thompson, DBE (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress and screenwriter.

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Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw, CBE (born Fiona Mary Wilson; 10 July 1958) is an Irish actress and theatre and opera director, known for her role as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films and her role as Marnie Stonebrook in season four of the HBO series True Blood (2011).

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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature.

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Freddie Jones

Frederick Charles JonesBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916-2005.; at ancestry.com (born 12 September 1927) is an English character actor.

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Gary Olsen

Gary Olsen (3 November 1957 – 12 September 2000) was an English actor.

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Gawn Grainger

Gawn Grainger (born 12 October 1937) is a British stage and screen actor, and husband of actress Zoë Wanamaker.

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Gemma Jones

Jennifer Gemma Jones (born 4 December 1942) is an English character actress on both stage and screen.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist.

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Ghosts (play)

Ghosts (Gengangere) is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

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Gordon Jackson (actor)

Gordon Cameron Jackson, OBE (19 December 1923 – 15 January 1990) was a Scottish actor best remembered for his roles as the butler Angus Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs and as George Cowley, the head of CI5, in The Professionals.

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Gwen Watford

Gwendoline "Gwen" Watford (10 September 1927 – 6 February 1994) was an English film, stage and television actress.

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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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Harriet Walter

Dame Harriet Mary Walter, (born 24 September 1950) is an English stage and screen actress.

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Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress best known for her roles in low-budget arthouse and independent films to large-scale Hollywood productions.

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Helena Little

Helena Little (born 1960 in Hazel Grove) is an English actress who is best known for playing in Casualty and she has also been in The Bill, Boon, Juliet Bravo, Between the Lines, A Touch of Frost, Peak Practice and Dangerfield.

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Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet.

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Hywel Bennett

Hywel Thomas Bennett (8 April 1944 – 25 July 2017) was a Welsh film and television actor.

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Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor.

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Ian Richardson

Ian William Richardson, (7 April 19349 February 2007) was a Scottish actor of film, stage and television.

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Imogen Boorman

Imogen May Pratt Boorman (born 13 May 1971) is an English film actress and television actress.

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Imogen Stubbs

Imogen Stubbs, Lady Nunn (born 20 February 1961) is an English actress and writer.

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Irene Handl

Irene Handl (27 December 1901 – 29 November 1987) was an English character actress who appeared in over a hundred British films.

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James Cellan Jones

Alan James Gwynne Cellan Jones (born 13 July 1931) is a British television and film director.

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James Saxon (actor)

James Saxon (12 June 1954 – 2 July 2003) was an English theatre and film character actor, often playing aristocratic or middle class characters.

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Jane Lapotaire

Jane Elizabeth Marie Lapotaire (née Burgess; 26 December 1944) is a British actress.

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Janet McTeer

Janet McTeer (born 5 August 1961. Derbrett's People of Today. Retrieved 31 December 2015. Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005; at ancestry.com) is an English actress.

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Janet Suzman

Dame Janet Suzman, (born 9 February 1939) is a South African/British actress who enjoyed a successful early career in the Royal Shakespeare Company, later replaying many Shakespearean roles, among others, on TV.

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Jason Durr

Jason Durr (born 1967) is an English actor of theatre, television and film, best known for his role as PC/DC Mike Bradley in the Yorkshire-based police drama series Heartbeat from 1997 until 2003, and his current role as Staff Nurse David Hide in the hospital drama series Casualty.

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Jim Broadbent

James Broadbent (born 24 May 1949) is an English actor.

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Jim Goddard

Jim Goddard (2 February 1936 – 17 June 2013) was an English film and TV director who was born in Battersea, London.

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Jimmy Jewel

James Arthur Thomas Jewel Marsh (4 December 1909 – 3 December 1995Gifford, Dennis The Independent, 5 December 1995. Note: This obituary wrongly gives the year of birth as 1912, which is contradicted by the Ben Warriss obituary. Retrieved 23 May 2013), known professionally as Jimmy Jewel, was an English comedian and actor who enjoyed a long career in stage, radio, television and film productions, including a 32-year partnership with his cousin Ben Warriss.

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Joan Ann Maynard

Joan Ann Maynard is a British actress who has worked both on stage and on television.

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Joan Plowright

Joan Ann Olivier, Baroness Olivier, DBE (née Plowright; born 28 October 1929), commonly known as Dame Joan Plowright, is an English retired actress whose career has spanned over six decades.

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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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John Cater

John Cater (17 January 1932 – 21 March 2009) was an English actor.

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John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright.

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John Millington Synge

Edmund John Millington Synge (16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer and collector of folklore.

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John Nettleton (actor)

John Nettleton is an English actor best known for playing Sir Arnold Robinson, Cabinet Secretary in Yes Minister (1980–84) and President of the Campaign for Freedom of Information in the follow-up Yes, Prime Minister (1985–88).

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John Woodnutt

John Woodnutt (3 March 1924 – 2 January 2006) was a British actor.

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Judi Dench

Dame Judith Olivia Dench, (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress.

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Julia McKenzie

Julia Kathleen Nancy McKenzie, CBE (born 17 February 1941) is an English actress, singer, presenter, and theatre director.

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Julie Walters

Dame Julia Mary Walters, (born 22 February 1950) is an English actress and writer.

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Kate Buffery

Katharine Winifred Buffery (born 23 July 1957) is an English actress.

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Kenneth Branagh

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1959) is a British actor, director, producer, and screenwriter from Belfast in Northern Ireland.

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Kenneth Cranham

Kenneth Cranham (born 12 December 1944) is a Scottish-born film, television, radio and stage actor.

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Kenneth Haigh

Kenneth Haigh (25 March 1931 – 4 February 2018) was an English actor.

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Kenneth Ives

Kenneth Ives (born 26 March 1934) is a British actor turned director with a number of 1960s and 1970s television credits.

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Kika Markham

Erika S.L. "Kika" Markham (born 1940)birth registered 4th quarter (Oct, Nov, Dec) 1940 is an English actress.

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Lady Windermere's Fan

Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced on Saturday, 20 February 1892, at the St James's Theatre in London.

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Larry Lamb

Lawrence Douglas Lamb (born) is an English actor and radio presenter.

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Leo McKern

Reginald "Leo" McKern, AO (16 March 1920 – 23 July 2002) was an Australian actor who appeared in numerous British, Australian and American television programmes and films, and in more than 200 stage roles.

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Linda Marlowe

Linda Virginia Marlowe (née Bathurst, born 26 July 1940) is an Australian-born British film, theatre, and television actress.

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Louis Marks

Louis Frank Marks (23 March 1928 – 17 September 2010) was a British script writer and producer mainly for BBC Television.

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Martin Jarvis (actor)

Martin Jarvis, OBE (born 4 August 1941) is an English actor and voice actor.

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Maureen Lipman

Maureen Diane Lipman, CBE (born 10 May 1946) is a British film, theatre and television actress, columnist and comedian.

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Mermaid Theatre

The Mermaid Theatre was a theatre encompassing the site of Puddle Dock and Curriers' Alley at Blackfriars in the City of London, and the first built in the City since the time of Shakespeare.

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Michael Darlow

Michael Darlow (born 13 June 1934) is a British television producer, director and writer.

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Michael Frayn

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

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Michael Gambon

Sir Michael John Gambon, (born 19 October 1940) is an Irish actor who has worked in theatre, television, and film.

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Michael Grandage

Michael Grandage CBE (born 2 May 1962) is a British theatre director and producer.

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Michael Hordern

Sir Michael Murray Hordern, CBE (3 October 19112 May 1995)Morley, Sheridan.

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Michael Kitchen

Michael Kitchen (born 31 October 1948) is an English actor and television producer, best known for his role as Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle in the ITV drama series Foyle's War 2002-15.

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Michael Maloney

Michael Maloney (born 19 June 1957) is an English actor.

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Michelle Fairley

Michelle Margaret Fairley (born 11 July 1963) is an actress from Northern Ireland, best known for her roles as Catelyn Stark in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Dr.

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Mike Gwilym

Mike Gwilym (born 5 March 1949) is a Welsh actor.

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Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (p; – 10 March 1940) was a Russian writer, medical doctor and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century.

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Miranda Richardson

Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English stage, film and television actress.

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Miss Julie

Miss Julie (Fröken Julie) is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg.

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Moira Armstrong

Moira Armstrong (born 1930) is a Scottish television director whose career has expanded over nearly fifty years.

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Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (15 January 162217 February 1673), was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature.

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Mustapha Matura

Mustapha Matura (born 17 December 1939) is a Trinidadian playwright living in London.

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Natalie Ogle

Natalie Ogle (born 1960) is an English actress.

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Natasha Richardson

Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) was an English actress of stage and screen.

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Nicholas Jones (actor)

Nicholas Jones (born 3 April 1946) is an English character actor of film and television.

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Nigel Hawthorne

Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne (5 April 1929 – 26 December 2001) was an English actor.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Othello

Othello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603.

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Patricia Brake

Patricia Ann Brake (born 25 June 1942 in Bath, Somerset) is an English actress.

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Patrick Godfrey

Patrick Lindesay Archibald Godfrey (born 13 February 1933) is an English actor of film, television and stage.

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Patrick Malahide

Patrick Malahide (born on 24 March 1945) is a British actor, known for his roles as Detective Sergeant Albert Chisholm in the TV series Minder and Balon Greyjoy in the TV series Game of Thrones.

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Patrick Newell

Patrick David Newell (27 March 1932 – 22 July 1988) was a British actor known for his large size.

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Patrick Ryecart

Patrick Ryecart (born 9 May 1952) is an English actor.

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Patrick Stewart

Sir Patrick Stewart, (born 13 July 1940) is an English actor whose career has included roles on stage, television, and film in a career spanning almost six decades.

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Patsy Kensit

Patricia Jude Francis Kensit (born 4 March 1968) is an English actress, singer, model, and former child star.

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Patsy Smart

Patsy Smart (14 August 1918 – 6 February 1996) was an English actress who is best remembered for her performance as Miss Roberts in the 1970s ITV television drama Upstairs, Downstairs. She also appeared in: Danger Man, "Only When I Laugh", Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, The Prisoner, The Avengers, The Sweeney, Doctor Who (The Talons of Weng-Chiang), Blake's 7, Danger UXB, The Chinese Detective, Minder, Rentaghost, Terry and June, Farrington of the F.O., Casualty, Hallelujah!, and The Bill. In her later roles, she was expert at playing dotty old ladies, her Mrs Sibley and Miss Dingle characters in Terry and June being examples. Another example was as the wife of the gardener in the Miss Marple episode "The Moving Finger" which starred Joan Hickson. Her films included Sons and Lovers (1960), The Tell Tale Heart (1960), Return of a Stranger (1961), What Every Woman Wants (1962), Arthur? Arthur! (1969), Leo the Last (1970), The Raging Moon (1971), Great Expectations (1974), Exposé (1976), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), Tess (1979), The Elephant Man (1980) and The Fourth Protocol (1987). Patsy Smart died of barbiturate poisoning in 1996.

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Paul McGann

Paul John McGann (born 14 November 1959) is an English actor.

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Peter Hawkins

Peter John Hawkins (3 April 1924 – 8 July 2006) was an English actor and voice artist.

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Peter Jeffrey

Peter Jeffrey (18 April 1929 – 25 December 1999) was an English character actor, starting his performing career on stage, he would later have many roles in television and film.

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Peter Vaughan

Peter Vaughan (born Peter Ewart Ohm; 4 April 1923 – 6 December 2016) was a British character actor, known for many supporting roles in British film and television productions.

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Philip Locke

Philip Locke (29 March 1928, London – 19 April 2004, Dedham, Essex) was an English actor.

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Pip Torrens

Philip Dean "Pip" Torrens (born 2 June 1960) is an English actor.

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Play of the Month

Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series, which ran from 1965 to 1983 featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays (or adaptations) which were usually broadcast on BBC1.

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Prunella Scales

Prunella Margaret Scales (née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932), is an English actress best known for her role as Basil Fawlty's wife Sybil in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers and her BAFTA award-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution (Screen One, BBC 1991) by Alan Bennett.

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Ram John Holder

Ram John Holder (born 1934) is a Guyanese actor and musician, who began his professional career as a singer in New York City, before moving to England in 1962.

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Irish satirist, a playwright and poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

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Robert Hardy

Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy, CBE, FSA (29 October 1925 – 3 August 2017) was an English actor who had a long career in the theatre, film and television.

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Robert Lang (actor)

Robert Lang (24 September 1934 – 6 November 2004) was an English actor of stage and television.

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Roger Lloyd-Pack

Roger Lloyd-Pack (8 February 1944 – 15 January 2014) was an English actor.

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Ron Cook

Ronald G. Cook (born late 1948) is an English actor who has been active in the theatre, film and television since the 1970s.

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Ronald Pickup

Ronald Alfred Pickup (born 7 June 1940) is an English actor who has been active in television and film since 1964.

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Rosemary Leach

Rosemary Anne Leach (18 December 1935 – 21 October 2017) was a British stage, television and film actress.

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Roy Marsden

Roy Marsden (born Roy Anthony Mould; 25 June 1941) is an English actor, who is probably best known for his portrayal of Adam Dalgliesh in the Anglia Television dramatisations of P. D. James's detective novels.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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Rudolph Walker

Rudolph Malcolm Walker, OBE (born 28 September 1939), is a Trinidadian actor, best known for his roles on British television.

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Samantha Bond

Samantha Bond (born 27 November 1961) is an English actress, perhaps best known for playing Miss Moneypenny in four James Bond films during the series Pierce Brosnan years, and for her role on Downton Abbey as the wealthy widow Lady Rosamund Painswick, sister of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham.

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Saskia Reeves

Saskia Reeves (born 16 August 1961) is an English actress best known for her roles in the films Close My Eyes (1991) and ''I.D.'' (1995), and the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune.

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Sebastian Shaw (actor)

Sebastian Lewis Shaw (29 May 1905 – 23 December 1994) was an English actor, director, novelist, playwright and poet.

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Shaun Sutton

Shaun Alfred Graham Sutton OBE (14 October 1919 in Hammersmith, London – 14 May 2004 in Norfolk) was an English television writer, director, producer and executive, who worked in the medium for nearly forty years from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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Sheila Hancock

Sheila Cameron Hancock, CBE (born 22 February 1933) is an English actress and author.

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Stephanie Turner

Stephanie Turner (born 25 May 1944 in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire (re-formed in 1974 as West Yorkshire), England) is an actress.

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Steven Berkoff

Leslie Steven Berkoff (né Berks; born 3 August 1937) is an English character actor, author, playwright and theatre director.

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Strife (play)

Strife is a three-act play by the English writer John Galsworthy.

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Stuart Burge

Stuart Burge (15 January 1918 - 24 January 2002) was an English film director, actor and producer.

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Suzanne Burden

Suzanne Burden (born 1958) is a British actress.

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Sylvia Coleridge

Sylvia Coleridge (10 December 1909 – 31 May 1986) was a British stage, film, radio and television actress.

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Tartuffe

Tartuffe, or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite (Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur), first performed in 1664, is one of the most famous theatrical comedies by Molière.

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Tenniel Evans

Walter Tenniel Evans (17 May 1926 – 10 June 2009) was a British actor and, latterly, clergyman.

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Terence Rattigan

Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan, CBE (10 June 191130 November 1977) was a British dramatist.

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Tessa Peake-Jones

Tessa Peake-Jones (born 9 May 1957) is an English actress.

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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 Devil's Disciple

The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw.

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The Father (Strindberg play)

The Father (Fadren) is a naturalistic tragedy by Swedish playwright August Strindberg, written in 1887.

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The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde.

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The Master Builder

The Master Builder (Bygmester Solness) is a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

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The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915.

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The Miser

The Miser (L'Avare) is a five-act comedy in prose by the French playwright Molière.

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The Playboy of the Western World

The Playboy of the Western World is a three-act play written by Irish playwright John Millington Synge and first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 26 January 1907.

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The Rivals

The Rivals is a comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in five acts which was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre on 17 January 1775.

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The Winslow Boy

First edition (publ. Hamish Hamilton) The Winslow Boy is an English play from 1946 by Terence Rattigan based on an incident involving George Archer-Shee in the Edwardian era.

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Tim Preece

Tim Preece (born 5 August 1938) is an English actor, prominent in 1970s television.

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Tim Roth

Simon Timothy Roth (born 14 May 1961) is an English actor and director.

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Tim Woodward

Timothy Oliver Woodward (born 24 April 1953) is an English actor.

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Timothy West

Timothy Lancaster West, CBE (born 20 October 1934) is an English film, stage and television actor, with more than fifty years of varied work in the business.

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Tom Courtenay

Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay (born 25 February 1937) is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of films, including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Billy Liar (1963), and Doctor Zhivago (1965).

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Trelawny of the 'Wells'

Trelawny of the 'Wells is an 1898 comic play by Arthur Wing Pinero.

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Trevor Nunn

Sir Trevor Robert Nunn, CBE (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre director.

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Vivian Pickles

Vivian Pickles (born 21 October 1931) is an English actress.

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What the Butler Saw (play)

What the Butler Saw is a farce written by the English playwright Joe Orton.

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Willard White

Sir Willard Wentworth White, OM, CBE (born 10 October 1946) is a Jamaican-born British operatic bass baritone.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Wolf Kahler

Wolf Kahler (born 3 April 1940) is a German actor.

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Zoë Wanamaker

Zoë Wanamaker (born 13 May 1949) is an English actress.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_Night

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