Magdalen Players
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The Magdalen Players is a theatrical production and funding body based at Magdalen College, Oxford
, England
. It is one of Oxford's richest theatrical organizations and assists with the funding of productions containing Magdalen students. It also organizes various events throughout the year, including, most notably, the Magdalen College Garden Show.
Previous productions have included:
Shakespeare productions are popular.
Magdalen College, Oxford
Magdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £153 million. Magdalen is currently top of the Norrington Table after over half of its 2010 finalists received first-class degrees, a record...
, England
England
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. It is one of Oxford's richest theatrical organizations and assists with the funding of productions containing Magdalen students. It also organizes various events throughout the year, including, most notably, the Magdalen College Garden Show.
The Garden Show
The Magdalen Garden Show is one of Oxford's summer productions. In recent years it has been performed outside on the stage in the President's Garden at Magdalen College or indoors in Magdalen's state-of-the-art auditorium. It has also been performed previously in the Deer Park.Previous productions have included:
- "PygmalionPygmalion- Stage :* Pigmalion , a 1745 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau* Pygmalion , a melodrama by Jean-Jacques Rousseau* Pygmalion , a 1779 duodrama opera by Georg Anton Benda* Pygmalion, an 1808 opera by Karol Kurpiński...
by George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
(2011) http://www.cherwell.org/culture/reviews/2011/05/13/review-pygmalion-the-magdalen-garden-show, http://www.magdalenplayers.co.uk/index.php?page=garden-show-2011 - "The Butterfly's Evil Spell by Federico Garcia LorcaFederico García LorcaFederico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is believed to be one of thousands who were summarily shot by anti-communist death squads...
(2010) - All's Well That Ends WellAll's Well That Ends WellAll's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1604 and 1605, and was originally published in the First Folio in 1623....
by William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
(2009) - An Ideal HusbandAn Ideal HusbandAn Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour...
by Oscar WildeOscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
(2008) - The Cherry OrchardThe Cherry OrchardThe Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however, Stanislavski insisted on...
by Anton ChekhovAnton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
(2007)
Shakespeare productions are popular.
External links
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