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Nick Dear is a Scriptwriter British born on 11 june 1955 at Portsmouth (United-kingdom)
Nick Dear (born 11 June 1955 in Portsmouth) is an English writer for stage, screen and radio. He received a BAFTA for his first screenwriting credit, a TV adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion.
Dear graduated with a degree in Comparative European Literature from the University of Essex in 1977.
Dear’s plays include Power and The Villains’ Opera at the National Theatre; The Art of Success, Zenobia and Pure Science for the RSC; In the Ruins at Bristol Old Vic; and Food of Love at the Almeida. Adaptations include Gorky’s Summerfolk and Molière’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme at the National; Tirso de Molina’s The Last Days of Don Juan at the Royal Shakespeare Company; Arbuzov’s The Promise at the Tricycle; Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw at Bristol Old Vic; and Ostrovsky’s A Family Affair for Cheek by Jowl. Dear's screenplays include Persuasion, The Gambler, The Turn of the Screw, Cinderella, Byron, Eroica and Agatha Christie’s Poirot. Opera libretti include The Palace in the Sky at Hackney Empire and Siren Song at the Almeida.
In 2005, Lunch in Venice appeared at the Shell Connections festival at the National Theatre. His plays Power (2003), and Summerfolk (1999) both premiered at the same venue. Power deals with the intrigue and tension of the court of the young Louis XIV of France. It has been produced at theatres in Portugal, Poland and Hungary, as well as the Finnish National Theatre (Kansallisteatteri).
His play The Art of Success premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 in a production starring Penny Downie and Michael Kitchen, and was nominated for an Olivier Award. It features William Hogarth and the political manipulation of art, the corruption of politics and treatment of women. His adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein premiered at the Royal National Theatre in 2011, in a production directed by Danny Boyle.
In November 2012 The Dark Earth and the Light Sky, his biographical play about Edward Thomas, opened at the Almeida Theatre, in a production directed by Richard Eyre.
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Nick Dear
Dear graduated with a degree in Comparative European Literature from the University of Essex in 1977.
Dear’s plays include Power and The Villains’ Opera at the National Theatre; The Art of Success, Zenobia and Pure Science for the RSC; In the Ruins at Bristol Old Vic; and Food of Love at the Almeida. Adaptations include Gorky’s Summerfolk and Molière’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme at the National; Tirso de Molina’s The Last Days of Don Juan at the Royal Shakespeare Company; Arbuzov’s The Promise at the Tricycle; Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw at Bristol Old Vic; and Ostrovsky’s A Family Affair for Cheek by Jowl. Dear's screenplays include Persuasion, The Gambler, The Turn of the Screw, Cinderella, Byron, Eroica and Agatha Christie’s Poirot. Opera libretti include The Palace in the Sky at Hackney Empire and Siren Song at the Almeida.
In 2005, Lunch in Venice appeared at the Shell Connections festival at the National Theatre. His plays Power (2003), and Summerfolk (1999) both premiered at the same venue. Power deals with the intrigue and tension of the court of the young Louis XIV of France. It has been produced at theatres in Portugal, Poland and Hungary, as well as the Finnish National Theatre (Kansallisteatteri).
His play The Art of Success premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 in a production starring Penny Downie and Michael Kitchen, and was nominated for an Olivier Award. It features William Hogarth and the political manipulation of art, the corruption of politics and treatment of women. His adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein premiered at the Royal National Theatre in 2011, in a production directed by Danny Boyle.
In November 2012 The Dark Earth and the Light Sky, his biographical play about Edward Thomas, opened at the Almeida Theatre, in a production directed by Richard Eyre.
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Elephants Can Remember (2013)
, 1h30Directed by John Strickland
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors David Suchet, Greta Scacchi, Zoë Wanamaker, Iain Glen, Adrian Lukis, Annabel Mullion
Rating79%
Les Ravenscroft sont retrouvés tous les deux morts d'une balle dans la tête. La police conclut alors à un double suicide sans trop y croire, le couple étant connu pour filer le parfait amour.
Three Act Tragedy (2010)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors David Suchet, Martin Shaw, David Yelland, Kimberley Nixon, Art Malik, Anastasia Hille
Rating76%
Lors d'un diner chez l'acteur Cartwright auquel participe Poirot, le révérend Babbington meurt apparemment de cause naturelle. Mais lorsqu'un mois plus tard, en présence des mêmes invités, un autre convive meurt de la même manière, Poirot n'a plus de doute sur le fait que ce sont des meurtres. Lui et Cartwright vont aider la police à faire toute la lumière sur cette affaire...
Poirot: Cards on the Table (2005)
, 1h40Directed by Sarah Harding
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors David Suchet, Lesley Manville, Lyndsey Marshal, Honeysuckle Weeks, Tristan Gemmill, Alex Jennings
Roles Writer
Rating74%
Un riche et étrange collectionneur moyen-oriental invite à dîner quatre personnes qu'il soupçonne chacune d'un meurtre, ainsi que quatre fins limiers : un policier, un colonel des services secrets, la romancière Ariadne Oliver et le détective belge Hercule Poirot. Au cours du repas, l'hôte lance des allusions qui peuvent inquiéter l'un ou l'autre et annonce une révélation pour la fin de la soirée, mais pendant la partie de bridge qui s'ensuit, il est assassiné. Assisté de ses collègues d'un soir et surtout de ses « petites cellules grises », Hercule Poirot enquête...
The Hollow (2004)
, 1h40Directed by Simon Langton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors David Suchet, Jonathan Cake, Megan Dodds, Sarah Miles, Edward Fox, Claire Price
Rating76%
Poirot, venu passer un week-end tranquille dans son cottage, est invité à dîner chez ses riches voisins, les Angkatell. Sont aussi présents d'autres membres de la famille. Au cours du séjour, le médecin John Christow est retrouvé abattu d'une balle près de la piscine, sa femme se tenant à côté de lui un revolver à la main. Mais pour Poirot, cela ressemble plutôt à une mise en scène...
Eroica (2003)
, 1h23Directed by Simon Cellan Jones
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Ian Hart, Tim Pigott-Smith, Lucy Akhurst, Leo Bill, Anton Lesser, Frank Finlay
Rating76%
The film is set in Vienna on June 9, 1804, the date of the private, first performance of Beethoven’s third symphony, later to be known as the ‘Eroica’. The performance, and most of the action in the film, takes place at the palace of one of Beethoven’s patrons, Prince Franz Lobkowitz. Midway during the performance, Beethoven tries to get his lover, a widow named Josephine von Deym, to marry him, but she refuses because of the unfair laws regarding child custody — she is a member of the nobility, and cannot marry a commoner without losing custody of her children. Later, composer Joseph Haydn, now old and feeble, arrives just in time to hear the last movement of the symphony.
The Gambler (1997)
Directed by Károly Makk
Actors Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Polly Walker, Dominic West, John Wood, Luise Rainer
Rating62%
Persuasion (1995)
, 1h47Directed by Roger Michell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Amanda Root, Ciarán Hinds, Fiona Shaw, Corin Redgrave, Susan Fleetwood, Sophie Thompson
Rating76%
The film opens by cutting back and forth between scenes of a naval ship carrying Admiral Croft (John Woodvine), and a buggy carrying Mr. Shepherd (David Collings) and his daughter Mrs. Clay (Felicity Dean) to Kellynch Hall. Shepherd and Clay are accosted by creditors due to the debts owed by the residence's owner, Sir Walter Elliot (Corin Redgrave), while Croft discusses the end of the Napoleonic Wars with fellow men of the navy. Sir Walter, a vain foppish baronet, is faced with financial ruin unless he retrenches. Though Sir Walter initially opposes the idea, he eventually agrees to temporarily move to Bath while the hall is let; the idea came from Shepherd, family friend Lady Russell (Susan Fleetwood), and Sir Walter's second eldest daughter, the intelligent Anne (Amanda Root).