13 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Brian Cox is a Scottish actor known for originating the role of Hannibal Lecter in 'Manhunter' (1986), for 'Succession', and for a broad range of theatrical and screen work.
American playwright and screenwriter — author of Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow — screenwriter for The Verdict, The Untouchables, Wag the Dog — who publicly converted from liberal to conservative and wrote The Secret Knowledge explaining his political evolution.
Gary Oldman is a British actor known for his extraordinary range — from Sid Vicious to Beethoven to Winston Churchill — and for his role as Commissioner Jim Gordon across Nolan's entire Dark Knight trilogy.
British prison rehabilitation organization that uses theater and role-play to help prisoners examine and change offending behavior — operating in prisons across the UK and internationally.
Irish playwright who wrote Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, and Man and Superman — the most important dramatist after Shakespeare in the English language — and whose plays are simultaneously social criticism (capitalism, war, medicine, marriage) and philosophical comedy.
Shakespeare's 1603 tragedy — following Prince Hamlet's paralysis after his father's murder by his uncle — the most performed play in history and the supreme literary treatment of consciousness, indecision, and mortality.
Hugh Jackman is an Australian actor and entertainer best known for playing Wolverine in the X-Men franchise and for stage performances, who starred as the showman-magician Robert Angier in Nolan's 'The Prestige'.
Ian Charleson was a Scottish actor best known for his role as Eric Liddell in 'Chariots of Fire' (1981), and as Hamlet in a celebrated 1989 National Theatre production.
Lindsay Anderson was a British director associated with Free Cinema and the British New Wave, best known for 'If....', 'O Lucky Man!', and 'Britannia Hospital'.
Sartre's 1944 one-act play in which three people (Garcin, Inès, Estelle) are condemned to spend eternity together in a single room — and whose conclusion 'Hell is other people' is the most quoted line in existentialist philosophy.
Syrian-born Roman mime-writer — whose moral maxims extracted from his theatrical works became the most quoted Latin aphorisms — freed slave who won theatrical competitions in Rome.
English playwright and poet — author of 37 plays and 154 sonnets — the greatest writer in the English language — whose work is the largest single influence on English literature, the English language itself, and world drama.
Tony Kushner's two-part play (Millennium Approaches and Perestroika) — a Pulitzer Prize-winning epic drama about AIDS, American politics, and spiritual struggle in Reagan-era America.