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After a sell-out national tour and an extended stage run, Alan Bennett’s phenomenally successful play transferred to BBC Radio 3, with Richard Griffiths, Clive Merrison and Frances de la Tour starring as part of the National Theatre cast. 2006 Winner
Indeed only a couple come readily to mind - the Hollywood version of Emlyn Williams's The Corn is Green in which a Welsh miner's son is encouraged to go to Oxford by an inspirational schoolmistress, and of course Dead Poets Society. Lockwood
The general studies wall is covered higgledy-piggledy with hundreds of postcards of art ancient and modern and portraits of Wilde, Joyce, Orwell, Betjeman, Bette Davis, Jack Hulbert and numerous others, including several of Charles Laughton with whom the fat, gay, histrionic Hector evidently identifies.
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The sensible Mrs Lintott's history room has maps and dynastic charts on the wall. 2006 Winner
In what other recent film has a poem been sensitively dissected the wayHardy's 'Drummer Hodge' is here by Hector and a pupil?There is no doubt about where Bennett's sympathies lie, and the production designer, John Beard, has served him and Hytner well.
Make-up Lady
A second Britain wide tour began on 31 August 2006 at the A majority of the original cast reunited on 2 November 2013 for the National Theatre 50th Anniversary special and performed the French lesson scene, with Philip Correia taking over for Russell Tovey, Marc Elliott performing as Akthar, original Akthar actor Sacha Dhawan as Posner (as Samuel Barnett was performing in A fourth national tour co-produced by the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Theatre Royal Bath commenced in early 2010. 2006 Winner
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The original cast of boys and their four teachers - played by Richard Griffiths, Stephen Campbell Moore, Frances de la Tour and Clive Merrison - performed more than 500 shows, went on …
Other Boy
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Though it's much more elaborately shaped, deeper, and even funnier, it's another state-of-the-nation play using a school as the setting, dealing with the same themes of education, history, class and national identity.The year is 1983, the setting is now an all-boys grammar school in Yorkshire attended largely by working-class lads, and the piece concentrates on eight bright sixth-formers who have stayed on for an extra term preparing to sit Oxbridge scholarship exams in history.
There are the merest glimpses of other pupils, and although in adapting the movie for the screen Bennett has briefly introduced a comic gym teacher straight out of Kes, and a dispirited teacher of art history, there are only four significant figures from the faculty.
Akthar
... Crowther.
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It's been thoughtfully brought to the screen with its National Theatre cast intact and with the same director, Nicholas Hytner, who made his movie debut 12 years ago with The Madness of King George, based on another National Theatre play by Bennett.After years of writing and performing sketches for the stage, radio and television, Bennett wrote his first play in 1968, the comedy Forty Years On, which used a minor public school as an image of Britain. 2006 Winner
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Mrs. Lintott
The cast includes Danny Sapani ( Medea, Black Panther, Killing Eve ), Siân Phillips ( People, Clash of the Titans) and Tunji Kasim ( Network, Antony & Cleopatra ). Scripps
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Mrs. Lintott
On 24 November 2005, the same production was revived once again at the Lyttelton Theatre where it played another successful run. Posner
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Samuel Anderson.
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The most sensitive of the boys, Posner (beautifully played by Samuel Barnett), confides in the closet gay Irwin: 'I'm a Jew. Other Boy
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