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    Sean Gerard Mathias (born 14 March 1956) is a Welsh actor, director, and writer. He is known for directing the film Bent and for directing highly acclaimed...
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    alongside Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Owen Teale. Directed by Sean Mathias, the production toured the UK from August, before a run a Wyndham's Theatre...
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    met his second partner, Sean Mathias, at the Edinburgh Festival. This relationship lasted until 1988, and according to Mathias, it was tempestuous, with...
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    for Godot in New Orleans On 30 April 2009, a production directed by Sean Mathias, with Sir Ian McKellen as Estragon and Sir Patrick Stewart as Vladimir...
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    Beau in Gently Down The Stream (Park Theatre, 2019) Claudius in Hamlet (Sean Mathias, Theatre Royal Windsor, 2021) International Who's Who in Classical Music...
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    rendition of Jean Cocteau's tragicomedy Les Parents terribles, directed by Sean Mathias. This performance earned him a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for...
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    Design for Living by Noël Coward Otto Gielgud Theatre, London, director Sean Mathias 1996 Les Enfants du Paradis by Jacques Prévert, adapted by Simon Callow...
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    James Maxwell Royal Exchange Theatre 1994 Design for Living Alfred Lunt Sean Mathias Donmar Warehouse, London 1997 Closer Dan Patrick Marber Royal National...
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  • Two adaptations of the novella into stage plays have been directed by Sean Mathias. The first production was written by Samuel Adamson and was presented...
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    Theatre) Antony and Cleopatra: Octavius Caesar (1998) – directed by Sean Mathias, (Royal National Theatre) Richard II: Richard II (2000) – directed by...
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  • Royal Haymarket, for a 6-month run of Breakfast at Tiffany's directed by Sean Mathias. Alongside his theatrical and TV appearances, including EastEnders and...
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    partnership by the actor Sir Ian McKellen, the theatre and film director Sean Mathias, and Evgeny Lebedev, publisher of the Evening Standard newspaper. The...
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  • members, including Ian McKellen, Alan Bates, Hugh Hudson, Richard Eyre, Sean Mathias, Hilton McRae, Ruby Wax, and David Rintoul, contributed to a book of...
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  • Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1988 for his starring role in Sean Mathias' A Prayer for Wings directed by Dame Joan Plowright. Allen made "On The...
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    Nominated Best Actress Janet McTeer Nominated Best Actress in a Supporting Role Lesley Sharp Nominated Best Director of a Play Sean Mathias Nominated...
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  • by Martin Sherman, which was made into the movie Bent, directed by Sean Mathias, in 1997. Kohout was born and grew up in Vienna. His mother and father...
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  • 2016, co-produced by Bill Kenwright. The new production was directed by Sean Mathias, designed by Anna Fleischle and starred Jenny Seagrove as Chris, Peter...
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  • drama film directed by Nigel Finch. It was adapted for television by Sean Mathias, based on the 1986 novel of the same name by David Leavitt. The film...
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  • Bent (1997 film) (category Films directed by Sean Mathias)
    Bent is a 1997 British-Japanese drama film directed by Sean Mathias, based on the 1979 play of the same name by Martin Sherman, who also wrote the screenplay...
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    Swept from the Sea Dr. James Kennedy Beeban Kidron Bent Uncle Freddie Sean Mathias 1998 Gods and Monsters James Whale Bill Condon Apt Pupil Kurt Dussander...
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    was Father Merrin in The Exorcist at the Phoenix Theatre directed by Sean Mathias. Bowles was warned by casting directors on leaving the Royal Academy...
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  • opened May 17, 2002, for a limited run of 17 performances. Directed by Sean Mathias, the cast included John Barrowman as Robert, Emily Skinner, Walter Charles...
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  • caused riots in Israel, due to the controversial subject matter. 1989 – Sean Mathias directed a revival of the play, performed as a one-night benefit for...
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    Grapes, a riverside pub in Limehouse, London, with Ian McKellen and Sean Mathias. In 2012 he purchased the hotel Château Gütsch in Lucerne, Switzerland...
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  • opened at the Olivier Theatre on September 26, 1995. It was directed by Sean Mathias, with set design by Stephen Brimson Lewis, costumes by Nicky Gillibrand...
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  • Mrs Venable in Tennessee Williams's Suddenly Last Summer, directed by Sean Mathias with Rachel Weisz at the Comedy Theatre, London. One of her last stage...
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    Deborah Warner (1993) Les Parents Terribles by Jean Cocteau, directed by Sean Mathias (1994) Women of Troy by Euripides, directed by Annie Castledine, starring...
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  • (Italy) Character (Karakter) by Mike van Diem (Netherlands) Bent by Sean Mathias (United Kingdom) Insomnia by Erik Skjoldbjærg (Norway) Short film competition...
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    first film. Weisz's breakthrough role on the stage was that of Gilda in Sean Mathias's 1994 revival of Noël Coward's Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre...
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    Alfred Molina as Lopakhin, translated by Martin Sherman and directed by Sean Mathias, opened at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in February 2006. The...
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