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Glenda Jackson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Glenda Jackson 1936-, English actress and politician. Jackson's first starring role was as Charlotte Corday in Marat/Sade (1966) for the Royal Shakespeare Company . A strong personality, she has excelled in both comedies and dramas. She...
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Jackson, Glenda
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Jackson, Glenda (1936– ) British actress and politician. Jackson reprised her stage role in her film debut Marat/Sade (1967). Her performance in Ken Russell's Women in Love (1969) earned her an Academy Award for...
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Nederlander Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...are second only to the Shuberts in the number of theatres they control in the USA. Later productions included Peter Ustinov's Beethoven's Tenth (1984) and a revival of O'Neill's Strange Interlude in 1985, with Glenda Jackson .
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Howard, Alan Mackenzie
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...parts—Prince Hal, Henry V, Richard II, Richard III, Coriolanus, and Antony (to the Cleopatra of Glenda Jackson )—brought him great critical praise, and he was also much admired as Jack Rover in the revival of O...
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Strauss, Botho
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...unshakeable optimism, in modern society. It was performed in New York in 1979 and in London, as Great and Small , with Glenda Jackson , in 1983. Other plays include The Park (1984; NY, 1988), in which Titania and Oberon from A Midsummer Night...
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Mermaid Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...1985 and the National Theatre's of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross in 1986. The RSC occupied the theatre as an extra London base in 1987, but withdrew after a year. Brecht's Mother Courage was staged in 1990, with Glenda Jackson .
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Plummer, (Arthur) Christopher Orme
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...and in 1981 returned to the American Shakespeare Theatre to play Iago in Othello and the title-role and Chorus in Henry V , repeating Iago in New York in 1982. In 1988, opposite Glenda Jackson in New York, he again played Macbeth.
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Macbeth
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...were the 1941 offering starring Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson and a 1988 mounting with Christopher Plummer and Glenda Jackson. The work remains a favorite with collegiate and festival groups.
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Globe Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...1976); and Alan Ayckbourn ( The Norman Conquests , 1974, Ten Times Table , 1978, and Joking Apart , 1979). Glenda Jackson and Joan Plowright starred there in García Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba , and Maggie Smith in Peter...
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Duke of York's Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...the gallery by a recording and broadcasting studio. The theatre reopened in 1980 with Andrew Davies's Rose, with Glenda Jackson , who later starred in a revival of O'Neill's Strange Interlude (1984). Richard Harris's Stepping Out (also...
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