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The Play

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Release date Turkey
Directors Pelin Esmer
Screenplay Pelin Esmer
Producers Pelin Esmer
Composers Mazlum Çimen
CastSaniye Cengiz
Zeynep Fatih
Fatma Fatih
Ümmü Kurt
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Date of Upd.
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About The Play


Nine peasant women from a mountain village write a play based on their lives.

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... Kevin Bacon, Sean Penn and Val Kilmer were among the cast when The Play was performed on Broadway in New York...

Keeley Hawes returns to stage for first time in a decade

Keeley Hawes returns to stage for first time in a decade
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... Hawes said: " Lucy Kirkwood has created a brilliant, complicated, inspiring role in Iris, and The Play tells a wonderfully tender and human story against the backdrop of a significant moment in our country s history...

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... As the simulated scene of urban destruction suggests, this is a contemporary staging of The Play...

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... The court case, like The Play, had two main cast members - retired optometrist Terry Sanderson and the " Goop-founding, door-sliding, Shakespeare-in-loving, consciously-uncoupling Hollywood superstar" Gwyneth...

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'Lost demon' uncovered in Joshua Reynolds painting

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Oct 31,2023 12:31 pm

... In The Play, King Henry laments the cardinal - his great uncle s - death, saying: O! beat away the busy, meddling fiend that lays siege unto this wretch s soul ...

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... It looks more like the film Roger Rabbit; real actors and animations inhabiting the same theatrical space, " says Dr Shane Pike, The Play s author from QUT s School of Creative Practice...

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... Piles of children s toys were visible in the backyard, evidence of The Play area that family members said the landlord had built for the boy...

'Lost demon' uncovered in Joshua Reynolds painting

Sep 30,2023 10:21 am

By Ian YoungsEntertainment & arts reporter

A devilish figure that disappeared from a celebrated and controversial 18Th Century painting for decades has been rediscovered in a recent restoration.

Sir Joshua Reynolds painted a demon lurking in The Shadows in His picture The Death of Cardinal Beaufort , based on a Shakespearean Death scene.

But " The Fiend " eventually disappeared beneath layers of paint and varnish.

The 1789 artwork has now been put back on display at Petworth House in West Sussex , with The Demon in full view.

The fanged creature can be seen at The Head of The Bed , in The Shadows , as Cardinal Beaufort lies dying, with King Henry VI and two lords at His bedside.

It was based on a scene in Shakespeare's Henry Vi , Part II, and depicts the power-hungry and conspiring Cardinal in The Final throes of Death .

In The Play , King Henry laments The Cardinal - His great Uncle 's - Death , saying: 'O! beat away the busy, meddling fiend that lays siege unto this wretch's soul'.

That " fiend's" inclusion in the picture stirred controversy at The Time it was created because some thought Sir Joshua - considered one of The Greatest painters of His age - should not have explicitly shown an imaginary creature.

One critic described it as " too ludicrous and puerile to escape censure" while another said it " does no credit to The Judgement of the painter".

Monstrous figure

John Chu, The National Trust's senior national curator for pictures and sculpture, explained: " It didn't fit in with some of the artistic rules of The Times , to have a poetic figure of speech represented so literally in this monstrous figure.

" When it was first shown at The Shakespeare Gallery in 1789 it generated more controversy than any other work on show.

Critics argued that " while it was considered acceptable in literature to introduce the idea of a demon as something in the mind of a person, to include it visually in a painting gave it too physical a form" said Mr Chu.

Several Friends and commentators tried to persuade Sir Joshua not to include it - or, on The Painting 's completion, to paint it out.

'A mess of misinterpretation'

Over The Years , the disputed figure has faded into The Shadows , as the artwork was overpainted and given numerous layers of varnish by restorers.

Early conservators appeared to have " misunderstood" the figure, Mr Chu added, and within decades " that area seems to have deteriorated into small islands of paint and become less clear".

" Degradation of successive varnish layers over The Years made it even less visible, " he added.

Becca Hellen, The National Trust's senior national conservator for paintings, said the area around The Fiend was " especially difficult" to restore.

" With the layers added by early restorers, it had become a mess of misinterpretation and multiple layers of paints. "

The National Trust marked The Demon 's reappearance in the Painting With a timely announcement on Halloween.

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