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Simon Bent | |
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| Occupation | Screenwriter, playwright |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
Simon Bent is a British screenwriter and playwright, notable for work including BBC TV drama Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006), the screenplay for the feature film Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (2000), and the Joe Orton biographical play Prick Up Your Ears based on John Lahr's book. [1] [2]
He wrote the theatre adaptation of A Prayer for Owen Meany (2002), staged at the Royal National Theatre and in America in Washington, Boston, Philadelphia.[ citation needed ] Elling (2007) opened at the Bush Theatre with John Simm and Jonathan Cecil [3] and transferred to the Trafalgar Studios; later it was produced in Australia and on Broadway.[ citation needed ] Prick Up Your Ears was produced in 2009 at the Comedy Theatre with Matt Lucas. [4] [5] The Tall Boy, 2019. [6]
He was nominated for the Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer at the 2003 BAFTA Awards, for Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry.[ citation needed ], ELLING, Winner Best Comedy, Whatsonstage Award 2008
John Kingsley Orton, known by the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist. His public career, from 1964 until his death in 1967, was short but highly influential. During this brief period he shocked, outraged, and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies. The adjective Ortonesque refers to work characterised by a similarly dark yet farcical cynicism.
Prick Up Your Ears is a 1987 British film, directed by Stephen Frears, about the playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell. The screenplay was written by Alan Bennett, based on the biography by John Lahr. The film stars Gary Oldman as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell, Wallace Shawn as Lahr, and Vanessa Redgrave as Peggy Ramsay.
Kenneth Leith Halliwell was a British actor, writer and collagist. He was the mentor, boyfriend and murderer of playwright Joe Orton.
Entertaining Mr Sloane is a three-act play written in 1963 by the English playwright Joe Orton. It was first produced in London at the New Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964 and transferred to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre on 29 June 1964.
Frances Barber is an English actress. She received Olivier Award nominations for her work in the plays Camille (1985), and Uncle Vanya (1997). Her film appearances include three collaborations with Gary Oldman in Prick Up Your Ears (1987), We Think the World of You (1988) and Dead Fish (2005); as well as Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987); Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1992); and latterly Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017). Barber's numerous television credits include The Street (2009), Doctor Who (2011), and Silk (2012–2014).
Rosalind Marie Knight was an English actress. Her career spanned 70 years on stage, screen, and television. Her film appearances include Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1957), Carry On Nurse (1959), Carry On Teacher (1959), Tom Jones (1963), and About a Boy (2002). Among her TV roles were playing Beryl in the BBC sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme (1999–2001) and Cynthia Goodman aka "Horrible Grandma" in Friday Night Dinner.
Richard Hope is a British actor who gained recognition from Brideshead Revisited as the doltish junior officer, Hooper, under Jeremy Irons charge. He is best known for playing Harris Pascoe in the UK TV drama Poldark. His theatre career includes in 1996, when he played Pierre Bezukhov in War and Peace at the Royal National Theatre having starred in another Tolstoy adaptation by Helen Edmundson, playing Levin in Anna Karenina. In 2015, he played Hector in The History Boys. In 2018–2019, he starred in the West End production The Woman in Black as Arthur Kipps.
Ingrid Marcella Lacey is a British actress. She is known for her role as Julia in Series 2 of London's Burning, Helen Cooper in the Channel 4 sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey (1993–98). Her film appearances include Funny Man (1994), In Love and War (1996) and The Cat's Meow (2001).
The Visitors is a 1961 one-act play by British playwright Joe Orton. The BBC and the Royal Court Theatre had considered the work but ultimately rejected it, despite their both having insisted that the writing was "excellent." Orton's career took off in 1964 with the staging of his Entertaining Mr. Sloane, and The Visitors remained forgotten until its UK publication in 1998 by Nick Hern Books; a US edition from Grove Press followed in 1999.
Trafalgar Theatre is a new West End theatre in Whitehall, near Trafalgar Square, in the City of Westminster, London. It is set to open in spring 2021 following a major multi-million pound restoration project aiming to reinstate it back to its original heritage design. The Grade II listed building was built in 1930 with interiors in the Art Deco style as the Whitehall Theatre; it regularly staged comedies and revues. It was converted into a television and radio studio in the 1990s, before returning to theatrical use in 2004 as Trafalgar Studios, the name it bore until 2020.
Margaret Francesca Ramsay was an Australian-born British theatrical agent.
Nicholas Le Prevost is an English actor.
Prick Up Your Ears is a play by Simon Bent, based on the life of playwright Joe Orton. Produced by Sonia Friedman it opened at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End on 30 September 2009 following previews from 17 September, it closed in November 2009. It starred Chris New as Joe Orton and Matt Lucas as Orton's lover and murderer, Kenneth Halliwell.
Chris New is an English film and stage actor best known for his starring role in the 2011 film Weekend. New made his screen writing and directorial debut in 2013 with the short film Ticking. He co-wrote the 2014 independent film Chicken, and co-wrote and directed the 2014 independent film A Smallholding.
Jamie Lloyd is a British director, best known for his work with his eponymous theatre company.
Sir Michael Victor Codron is a British theatre producer, known for his productions of the early work of Harold Pinter, Christopher Hampton, David Hare, Simon Gray and Tom Stoppard. He has been honoured with a Laurence Olivier Award for Lifetime Achievement, and owns the Aldwych Theatre in the West End, London.
Elling is a 2007 theatre adaptation by Simon Bent of the 2001 film of the same name. It was directed by Paul Miller and produced at the Bush Theatre, London, it then transferred to the West End at Trafalgar Studios for a Critically acclaimed and near sold out 12 week run, with John Simm in the title role Adrian Bower, Ingrid Lacey, Jonathan Cecil & Keir Charles.
The 2009 Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced on 2009. The shortlist was revealed on 2009 and the longlist on 2 November 2009.
Paul Miller is the artistic director of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London. He succeeded the theatre's founder, Sam Walters, in June 2014.
Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry is a 2000 film directed by Paul Tickell from a screenplay by Simon Bent, based on the 1973 novel of the same name by B. S. Johnson.
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