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Born. Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. Occupation (s) Stage and film actor. Years active. 1971–present. Paul Jesson is an English stage, television and film actor and an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company . He has played leading roles at the National Theatre and the RSC and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a ...
Born. Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. Occupation (s) Stage and film actor. Years active. 1971–present. Close. He has played leading roles at the National Theatre and the RSC and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 1986 for his role in The Normal Heart at the Royal Court Theatre.
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Craig DonnerMickey MarcusNed WeeksDr. Emma BrooknerDuring the early 1980s, Jewish-American writer and gay activist Ned Weeks struggles to pull together an organization focused on raising awareness about the fact that an unidentified disease is killing off a specific group of people: gay men, largely in New York City. Dr. Emma Brookner, a physician and survivor of polio (as a consequence of which sh...
After most performances of the 2011 revival of The Normal Heart, Kramer personally passed out a dramaturgical flyer detailing some of the real stories behind the play's characters. Kramer wrote that the character "Bruce" was based on Paul Popham, the president of the GMHC from 1981 until 1985; "Tommy" was based on Rodger McFarlane, who was executiv...
1985–1999
Produced by Joseph Papp and directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the play opened off-Broadway at The Public Theater on April 21, 1985, and ran for 294 performances. The original cast included Brad Davis as Ned and D. W. Moffett as Felix, with David Allen Brooks as Bruce Niles and Concetta Tomei as Dr. Emma Brookner (based on Linda Laubenstein, M.D.). Joel Greyreplaced Davis later in the run. During the original 1985 production, the set was very simple with a small amount of furniture and the set...
2000s
The Broadway premiere of The Normal Heart began on April 19, 2011, for a limited 12-week engagement at the Golden Theatre. This production used elements employed in a staged reading, directed by Joel Grey, held in October 2010. The cast featured Joe Mantello as Ned, Ellen Barkin (making her Broadway debut) as Dr. Brookner, John Benjamin Hickey as Felix, Lee Pace as Bruce Niles, and Jim Parsons as Tommy Boatwright (both Pace and Parsons made their Broadway debuts). Joel Grey made his Broadway...
A Polish television adaptation débuted on the TVP channel on 4 May 1989, one month before the first free election in the country since 1928. The American telefilm adaptation débuted on the HBO premium pay cable channel on Sunday, May 25, 2014.[citation needed]
Kramer wrote a sequel about Ned Weeks in 1992, The Destiny of Me, which was performed at the Lucille Lortel Theater by the Circle Repertory Companyin October of that year.
In his review in The New York Times, Frank Rich observed, "In this fiercely polemical drama ... the playwright starts off angry, soon gets furious and then skyrockets into sheer rage. Although Mr. Kramer's theatrical talents are not always as highly developed as his conscience, there can be little doubt that The Normal Heart is the most outspoken p...
The Normal Heart Broadway revival(link archived in 2013)The Normal Heart at the Internet Broadway DatabaseThe Normal Heart at the Internet Off-Broadway Database- Larry Kramer
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Apr 8, 2024 · Richard and I first met in 1990 at the RSC in Stratford when the late Roger Michell cast me in Richard's play Two Shakespearean Actors. Roger's assistant director on the production was one Clarissa Brown. It was a season of enduring friendships, actually quite rare in the theatre, and in subsequent years Richard and I stayed in touch.
Paul Jesson is an English stage, television and film actor and an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has played leading roles at the National Theatre and the RSC and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 1986 for his role in The Normal Heart at the Royal Court Theatre. [1]
Paul Jesson (birth name Paul George Jackson) born July 6, 1946, is a British actor known for his roles in the ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders. As Hector Bridges in Blood Will Out (1999) As Lynton Pargeter in Talking to the Dead (2010) Paul Jesson at IMDB.
