Venice Preserv'd is an English Restoration play written by Thomas Otway, and the most significant tragedy of the English stage in the 1680s. It was first...
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Venice Preserv'd is a 1763 oil on canvas painting by the German-born British artist Johan Zoffany. It depicts the actors David Garrick and Susannah Maria...
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While connected with the Almeida, McDiarmid directed plays such as Venice Preserv'd (1986) and Hippolytus (1991). In 2002, McDiarmid won Almeida Theatre's...
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was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd (1682). Otway was born at Trotton near Midhurst...
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at non-patent theatres) could be read as seditious. Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd of 1682 was a royalist political play that, like Dryden's Absalom and...
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he wanted to present henceforth was Venice Preserv'd. Weichmann did not understand the reference; Venice Preserv'd is about an assassination plot. Booth's...
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Examples of plays that followed the theory include: Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd (1682), Joseph Addison's Cato, and Samuel Johnson's Irene (1749). Shakespeare's...
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Jeremiah Peachum in the revival of Threepenny Opera and in Otway's Venice Preserv'd in late 1955. Asner scored his first Broadway role in Face of a Hero...
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The Hunchback was followed by turns as Belvidera in Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd, and as Margaret in Joanna Baillie's The Separation. Though her interpretation...
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Cyrano de Bergerac. She also appeared in plays such as Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd at the Almeida Theatre in London, and Toyer at the Arts Theatre in...
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for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award, in Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd, and also premiered his solo show Anton Chekhov which he has been regularly...
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Injured Princess (adapted from Cymbeline) The Royalist Thomas Otway – Venice Preserv'd William Shakespeare adapted by Nahum Tate – Coriolanus Thomas Southerne...
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September–October 1994 Frank Armstrong in Heartbeat October 1995 Priuli in Venice Preserv'd (Thomas Otway), Almeida Theatre, October–December 1995 Jacques in As...
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List Terry Hampstead Theatre Cowardice Boy Ambassadors Theatre 1984 Venice Preserv'd Pierre Royal National Theatre Wild Honey Michael Platonov Coriolanus...
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Invisible Man (his one-man show) at the Bridewell Theatre; and Pierre in Venice Preserv'd at the Almeida. He has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare...
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Birmingham Repertory Theatre 8 November 1983 – Cambridge Theatre 1984 Venice Preserv'd Belvidera National Theatre 15 May 1984 – Antigone Antigone John Burgess...
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Deborah Solstice Duke of York's Theatre, West End, London, UK 1984 Venice Preserv’d Aquilina Lyttleton Theatre, London, UK 1987 The Rover Angellica Bianca...
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Oldsapp (1678) King Lear in Nahum Tate's King Lear (1681) Jaffeir in Venice Preserv’d (1682) Valentine in Love for Love (1695) Tamerlane by Nicholas Rowe...
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Tate's adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear and Pierre in Otway's Venice Preserv'd as well as comic roles such as Bayes in Buckingham's The Rehearsal;...
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Vic 1953 The Way of the World Waitwell John Gielgud Lyric Theatre Venice Preserv'd Retrosi Thomas Otway 1954 The Dark Is Light Enough 1st Soldier Unknown...
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Yard Theatre, London 2018 Absolute Hell Nigel Childs Royal National Theatre, London 2019 Venice Preserv'd — Director; Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon...
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through Edo (now Tokyo). February 9 – Thomas Otway's classic play Venice Preserv'd or A Plot Discover'd is given its first performance, premiering at...
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Haymarket Theatre (Leicester) Soldier's Fortune (1981) Lyric Hammersmith Venice Preserv'd (1984) Lyttelton Theatre Wild Honey (1984) Lyttelton Theatre Noises...
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Hare (1991), both at the National Theatre, and in 1995 she acted in Venice Preserv'd at the Almeida Theatre. Her film roles include Selina in Under Suspicion...
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Garden at Hampton House, with Mr and Mrs David Garrick taking tea, 1763 Venice Preserv'd, (1763) Queen Charlotte with her Two Eldest Sons (1765) The Family...
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to be by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. In Thomas Otway's play Venice Preserv'd (1682), Act III, Scene i, an old senator, Antonio, visits the house...
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wrote for her: Monimia in Otway's The Orphan (1680), Belvidera in Otway's Venice Preserved (1682), and Isabella in Southerne's The Fatal Marriage (1694)...
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1774, Siddons won her first success as Belvidera in Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd. This brought her to the attention of David Garrick, who sent his deputy...
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contribution to the season, in which other productions included Gielgud in Venice Preserv'd, Coward in The Apple Cart and Ashcroft and Redgrave in Antony and Cleopatra...
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dramatists were Nathaniel Lee (The Rival Queens) and Thomas Otway, whose Venice Preserv'd is a fine tragedy that transcends the usual limitations of the form...
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