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David Jones (director), the Glossary

David Hugh Jones (19 February 1934 – 19 September 2008) was an English stage, television and film director.^[1]

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A Christmas Carol (1999 film)

A Christmas Carol is a 1999 British-American made-for-television film adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol that was first televised December 5, 1999, on TNT.

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Aldwych Theatre

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

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Alexander Gelman (born December 21, 1960), born: Aleksandr Simonovich Gelman (Алекса́ндр Си́монович Ге́льман) is an American theater director and the current Producing Artistic Director of Organic Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois.

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Alexander Ostrovsky

Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Остро́вский) was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period.

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All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare, published in the First Folio in 1623, where it is listed among the comedies.

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And Then There Was One (1994 film)

And Then There was One is a 1994 television film directed by David Jones and starring Amy Madigan and Dennis Boutsikaris.

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Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh actor.

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer.

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Arts Theatre

The Arts Theatre is a theatre in Great Newport Street, in Westminster, Central London.

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As You Like It

As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623.

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Baal (play)

Baal was the first full-length play written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht.

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Barbarians (play)

Barbarians (translit) is a 1906 play by Maxim Gorky.

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Barbican Centre

The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London, England, and the largest of its kind in Europe.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the BBC.

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BBC Television Shakespeare

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and broadcast by BBC Television.

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Ben Kingsley

Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor. David Jones (director) and Ben Kingsley are Royal Shakespeare Company members.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Betrayal (1983 film)

Betrayal is a 1983 British drama film adaptation of Harold Pinter's 1978 play of the same name.

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Betrayal (play)

Betrayal is a play written by Harold Pinter in 1978.

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Bones (TV series)

Bones is an American police procedural drama television series created by Hart Hanson for Fox.

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Boris Vian

Boris Vian (10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath who is primarily remembered for his novels.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Brooklyn Academy of Music

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a multi-arts center in Brooklyn, New York City.

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Chicago Hope

Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley, that originally aired on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000.

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Christ's College, Cambridge

Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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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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Cymbeline

Cymbeline, also known as The Tragedie of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early historical Celtic British King Cunobeline.

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David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University

The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University is a graduate professional school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut.

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David Mercer (playwright)

David Mercer (27 June 1928 – 8 August 1980) was an English dramatist.

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Donmar Warehouse

The Donmar Warehouse is a 251-seat, not-for-profit theatre in Covent Garden, London, England.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Edmund Kean

Edmund Kean (4 November 178715 May 1833) was a British Shakespearean actor, who performed, among other places, in London, Belfast, New York, Quebec, and Paris.

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Edna O'Brien

Josephine Edna O'Brien (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024) was an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet, and short-story writer.

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Enemies (play)

Enemies (translit) is a 1906 Russian-language play by Maxim Gorky.

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Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man

Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man (На всякого мудреца довольно простоты; translit. Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty) is a five-act comedy by Aleksandr Ostrovsky.

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Film director

A film director is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision.

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Günter Grass

Günter Wilhelm Grass (16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.

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Harley Granville-Barker

Harley Granville-Barker (25 November 1877 – 31 August 1946) was an English actor, director, playwright, manager, critic, and theorist.

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Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. David Jones (director) and Harold Pinter are English television directors and English theatre directors.

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Harold Pinter Theatre

The Harold Pinter Theatre, known as the Comedy Theatre until 2011,, BBC News, 7 September 2011, accessed 8 September 2011.

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Huw Wheldon

Sir Huw Pyrs Wheldon, (7 May 1916 – 14 March 1986) was a Welsh broadcaster and BBC executive.

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In the Jungle of Cities

In the Jungle of Cities (German: Im Dickicht der Städte) is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht.

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Irish Repertory Theatre

The Irish Repertory Theatre is an Off-Broadway theatre company founded in 1988.

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Is There Life Out There?

Is There Life Out There? is a 1994 American television film starring Reba McEntire.

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Ivanov (play)

Ivanov (italic (Ivanov: drama in four acts); also translated as "Ivanoff") is a four-act drama by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.

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Jacknife

Jacknife is a 1989 American film directed by David Jones and starring Robert De Niro, Ed Harris and Kathy Baker.

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James Cellan Jones

Alan James Gwynne Cellan Jones (13 July 1931 – 30 August 2019) was a British television and film director.

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Jason Robards

Jason Nelson Robards Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American actor.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism.

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Jeremy Irons

Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor and activist. David Jones (director) and Jeremy Irons are Royal Shakespeare Company members.

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John Arden

John Arden (26 October 1930 – 28 March 2012) was an English playwright who at his death was lauded as "one of the most significant British playwrights of the late 1950s and early 60s".

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Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson (born May 29, 1945) is an American fine art photographer known for her distinctive style of photography, which often involves nude or semi-nude women.

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Judi Dench

Dame Judith Olivia Dench (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress. David Jones (director) and Judi Dench are English theatre directors and Royal Shakespeare Company members.

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Julie Harris

Julia Ann Harris (December 2, 1925August 24, 2013) was an American actress.

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Krapp's Last Tape

Krapp's Last Tape is a 1958 one-act play, in English, by Samuel Beckett.

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Langrishe, Go Down

Langrishe, Go Down, the novel by Aidan Higgins (1966), was adapted for the screen by Harold Pinter, directed by David Jones, filmed for BBC Television in association with italic, and first broadcast in September 1978 as a 90-minute BBC2's Play of the Week.

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often shortened to Law & Order: SVU or SVU) is an American police procedural crime drama television series created by Dick Wolf for NBC.

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Lillian Hellman

Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway, as well as her communist views and political activism.

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Lindsay Anderson

Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature-film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading-light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave. David Jones (director) and Lindsay Anderson are British film directors.

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Liv Ullmann

Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938) is a Norwegian actress.

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Look Back in Anger (1980 film)

Look Back in Anger is a 1980 British film starring Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Banes and Fran Brill, and directed by Lindsay Anderson and David Hugh Jones.

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Love's Labour's Lost

Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years in order to focus on study and fasting.

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Malcolm McDowell

Malcolm McDowell (born Malcolm John Taylor; 13 June 1943) is an English actor. David Jones (director) and Malcolm McDowell are Royal Shakespeare Company members.

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Maxim Gorky

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Алексей Максимович Пешков; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Russian and Soviet writer and socialism proponent.

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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 Billington (critic)

Michael Keith Billington (born 16 November 1939) is a British author and arts critic.

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Minerva Theatre, Chichester

The Minerva Theatre is a studio theatre seating, at full capacity, 310.

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Monitor (British TV programme)

Monitor is a British arts television programme that was launched on 2 February 1958 on BBC and ran until 1965.

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Nicholas Wright (playwright)

Nicholas Verney Wright (born 1940 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a British dramatist.

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No Man's Land (play)

No Man's Land is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first produced and published in 1975.

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Old Times

Old Times is a play by Harold Pinter.

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Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 – May 1, 2021) was an American actress.

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On the Razzle (play)

On the Razzle is a play by Tom Stoppard which premiered at the Royal National Theatre, London in 1981.

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Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio.

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Picket Fences

Picket Fences is an American family drama television series about the residents of the town of Rome, Wisconsin, created and produced by David E. Kelley.

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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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Poole

Poole is a coastal town and seaport on the south coast of England in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area in Dorset, England.

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Purgatory (drama)

Purgatory is a drama by the Irish writer William Butler Yeats.

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Richard Griffiths

Richard Thomas Griffiths (31 July 1947 – 28 March 2013) was an English actor of film, television, and stage. David Jones (director) and Richard Griffiths are Royal Shakespeare Company members.

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Richard Nelson (playwright)

Richard John Nelson (born October 17, 1950) is an American playwright and librettist.

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Rockport, Maine

Rockport is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States.

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Ronald Harwood

Sir Ronald Harwood (né Horwitz; 9 November 1934 – 8 September 2020) was a South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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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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Sally Beauman

Sally Vanessa Beauman (née Kinsey-Miles, 25 July 1944 – 7 July 2016) was an English journalist and writer, author of eight widely translated and best-selling novels.

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator.

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Seán O'Casey

Seán O'Casey (Seán Ó Cathasaigh; born John Casey; 30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was an Irish dramatist and memoirist.

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Sheila Allen (English actress)

Sheila Allen (22 October 1932 – 13 October 2011) was an English actress, who was best known to the wider public for her role on television as Cassie Manson in Bouquet Of Barbed Wire and its sequel Another Bouquet (1976–77). David Jones (director) and Sheila Allen (English actress) are Royal Shakespeare Company members.

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Summerfolk

Summerfolk (translit) is a play by Maxim Gorky written in 1904 and first published in 1905 by Znaniye (1904 Znaniye Anthology, book Three), in Saint Petersburg.

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Sweeney Agonistes

Sweeney Agonistes by T. S. Eliot was his first attempt at writing a verse drama although he was unable to complete the piece.

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Sweet Bird of Youth

Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 play by Tennessee Williams that tells the story of a gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra del Lago (travelling incognito as Princess Kosmonopolis), whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies.

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.

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Taking Sides (play)

Taking Sides is a 1995 play by British playwright Ronald Harwood, about the post-war United States denazification investigation of the German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwängler on charges of having served the Nazi regime.

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Taunton School

Taunton School is public school, now co-educational, in the county town of Taunton in Somerset in South West England. David Jones (director) and Taunton School are People educated at Taunton School.

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Television director

A television director is in charge of the activities involved in making a television program or section of a program.

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Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter.

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The Autumn Garden

The Autumn Garden is a 1951 play by Lillian Hellman.

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The Caretaker

The Caretaker is a drama in three acts by Harold Pinter.

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The Christmas Wife

The Christmas Wife is a 1988 American drama film directed by David Jones and written by Catherine Ann Jones.

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The Confession (1999 film)

The Confession is a 1999 American drama film directed by David Hugh Jones, starring Ben Kingsley and Alec Baldwin.

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The Custom of the Country (play)

The Custom of the Country is a Jacobean stage play, a tragicomedy written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, originally published in 1647 in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio.

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The Devil's Disciple (1987 film)

The Devil's Disciple is a 1987 television film adaptation of the 1897 George Bernard Shaw play of the same title.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hothouse

The Hothouse (1958/1980) is a full-length tragicomedy written by Harold Pinter in the winter of 1958 between The Birthday Party (1957) and The Caretaker (1959).

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The Investigation (play)

The Investigation (1965) is a play by German playwright Peter Weiss that depicts the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963–1965.

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The Last Confession

The Last Confession is a stage play by Roger Crane about the election and death of Pope John Paul I. The play follows Giovanni Benelli who recounts, during his last confession, his role in the death of John Paul and how this led him to lose his faith.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones_(director)

Also known as David Hugh Jones.

, Jeremy Irons, John Arden, Joyce Tenneson, Judi Dench, Julie Harris, Krapp's Last Tape, Langrishe, Go Down, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Lillian Hellman, Lindsay Anderson, Liv Ullmann, Look Back in Anger (1980 film), Love's Labour's Lost, Malcolm McDowell, Maxim Gorky, Mermaid Theatre, Michael Billington (critic), Minerva Theatre, Chichester, Monitor (British TV programme), Nicholas Wright (playwright), No Man's Land (play), Old Times, Olympia Dukakis, On the Razzle (play), Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Picket Fences, Play of the Month, Poole, Purgatory (drama), Richard Griffiths, Richard Nelson (playwright), Rockport, Maine, Ronald Harwood, Royal Shakespeare Company, Sally Beauman, Samuel Beckett, Seán O'Casey, Sheila Allen (English actress), Summerfolk, Sweeney Agonistes, Sweet Bird of Youth, T. S. Eliot, Taking Sides (play), Taunton School, Television director, Tennessee Williams, The Autumn Garden, The Caretaker, The Christmas Wife, The Confession (1999 film), The Custom of the Country (play), The Devil's Disciple (1987 film), The Guardian, The Hothouse, The Investigation (play), The Last Confession, The Lower Depths, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Other Place (theatre), The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising, The Practice, The Return of A. J. Raffles, The Silver Tassie (play), The Tempest, The Trial (1993 film), The Winter's Tale, Theatre director, Theatre Record, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Time to Say Goodbye?, Tom Stoppard, Tucson, Arizona, Twelfth Night, W. B. Yeats, William Shakespeare, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, 7th Heaven (TV series), 84 Charing Cross Road (film).

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