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📆 On this day:

Willy Russell, Liverpool playwright, dramatist, composer and artist whose works include Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine was born, today celebrating his 74th birthday! 🎂

Check out our portrait of Willy Russell in our collections; https://t.co/PzNrvQmBzC

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2021-08-24

Today's Character Based On of the day is Oscar François de Jarjayes, or Lady Oscar, from The Rose of Versailles.

She is named after Oscar Wilde, an Irish poet and playwright, because Riyoko Ikeda is a fan of his work.

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2021-08-08

Kenneth Ross (4 June 1941) is a playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist best known for his 1978 stage play Breaker Morant, later adapted to film and nominated for a 1980 Academy Award. https://t.co/LXuW7cjqJz

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2021-06-05

"All the world's a stage,
and all the men and women merely players:
they have their exits and their entrances;
and one man in his time plays many parts ..."
As You Like It, Act II

English playwright, poet, and actor William Shakespeare died in 1616.

https://t.co/ReH2Iplbrq

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2021-04-23

Roland Topor (7 January 1938 – 16 April 1997) a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, filmmaker and actor
Marteau pilon poil au menton,1972

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2021-04-16

Hi I'm a queer comic book writer, playwright, and theater director. I have DASH co-created with from and a new book TOMMY DAKOTA that I'm about to KS with next week! https://t.co/EBboLpsI2g

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2021-04-14

I'm a comic book writer, playwright, and theater director. The comic people know me for is DASH published from I'm also about to launch a KS about a queer Latino bandit in love. My plays can also be found over on https://t.co/5Si581jqcD

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2021-04-05

9 Mar 1616: Francis Beaumont, playwright, interred in Abbey near &

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2021-03-10

Latest Art Samuel Beckett: Original ink drawing on fine grain – heavyweight acid free paper. Samuel Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. A… https://t.co/9yRQPmeHE1

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2021-02-22

2 Feb 1553: John Bale ex-friar, historian, polemicist, playwright, consecrated as Bishop of in - characteristically he causes a row by demanding the 'new' reformed ordinal be used (BM/eebo)

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2021-02-03

30 January 1859 - Edward Martyn, playwright, co-founder of Irish Literary Theatre, and Sinn Féin president, was born in Tulira, Co.

[IMAGE: Portrait of by N. French McLachlan; https://t.co/6hUS0nxtaL]

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2021-01-30

January 2021-Alternate Universe

Instead of the Demon Playwright, meet the Demon Jester whose main color is blue instead of red.

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2021-01-22

10 Jan 1560: following Elizabeth I's accession, John Bale former then evangelical polemicist, playwright, antiquarian & bishop of is made a canon of cathedral (BM/eebo)
He never went back to which he’d fled under Mary I.

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2021-01-10

6 January 1840 Frances Burney died. Satirical novelist, diarist playwright, daughter of Dr Charles Burney, a Worthy. Fanny Burney- good friend of Hester Thrale who lived at "Streatham Park" and regularly stayed https://t.co/KMfH03wTQt

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2021-01-06

James Baldwin made it through high school, after which he set out on a voracious enterprise of self-education. He became a celebrated novelist, essayist, playwright, and an important figure in the civil rights movement in the 50s and 60s.

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2020-11-14

4 October 1886 - Lennox Robinson, playwright, poet, and one-time manager, is born in Douglas, Co.

[IMAGES: Lennox Robinson drawing by Tom Lalor, 1917; Photograph of Lennox Robinson, c. 1920-1958, Irish Personalities Photographic Collection]

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2020-10-04

01. Hubert Ogunde:

Chief Hubert Adedeji Ogunde, D.Lit. was a Nigerian actor, playwright, theatre manager, and musician who founded the first contemporary professional theatrical company in Nigeria, the African Music Research Party, in 1945.

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2020-10-01

1908: Birth in of Mervyn Wall (d 1997). Novelist, playwright, short stories & Ireland Today. , Civil servant & Secretary . 2 of novels are humorous fantasy about the misadventures of a monk in Dark Ages Ireland! https://t.co/SNuvucqSlm

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2020-08-23

Theodore Wallace, ultimate sweetheart, aspiring playwright, extremely gay

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2020-07-16

"CLAUDEL: Connaissance de l'Est"
Bozoky, Maria
Paul CLAUDEL (1868-1955) French poet, playwright, essayist
"Knowledge of the East" is a collection of prose poems composed almost all in China between 1895&1905.

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2020-07-16