Word: royall
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...anymore. Just turned 28, he has already caused a sensation in London, where four of his plays have been staged to wide acclaim in the past two years. One of them, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, opened off-Broadway in February (in the original production staged by London's Royal Court and Ireland's Druid Theatre) and drew such ecstatic reviews that its six-week run was sold out within 24 hours; the show will transfer to Broadway later this month. A second McDonagh play, The Cripple of Inishmaan, opens this week at the Public Theater, in a new production...
...Conservative Party to join the Liberals, in part out of calculation: the Liberals were the coming party, and in its ranks he soon achieved high office. He became Home Secretary in 1910 and First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911. Thus it was as political head of the Royal Navy at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 that he stepped onto the world stage...
Mendes, a compact, tousle-haired man with a boyish lack of pretension, graduated from Cambridge and had a pair of shows on the West End (London Assurance and The Cherry Orchard) by the time he was 23. He later spent five years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, developing a craft free of theatrical folderol. "You learned how to do Shakespeare with two tables and four chairs," he says. "Theater is not about illustrating, not about decorating. It's about building images from the inside out. That's frightening for actors. They can't blend into the scenery...
Britain's Prince Charles and his sons, William and Harry, began their first joint visit to North America since the death of Princess Diana. The chartered jet carrying Charles and Harry touched down at Vancouver's airport under threatening skies Monday evening. The royal party headed quickly to a hotel, but first greeted a waiting crowd -- and Harry, 13, accepted several red roses from young girls. William flew to Canada on a separate commercial flight. (He is not allowed to use the same aircraft as his father because he is second behind Charles as heir to the British throne...
...British motoring organization insisted Monday that it had no plans to use Princess Diana in a seat belt campaign that critics charged was tasteless and insensitive. Politicians, police and safety organizations had condemned a reported plan by the Royal Automobile Club for a campaign claiming the princess could have survived the Aug. 31 Paris car crash if she had been wearing a rear seat belt. On the other hand, margarine tubs bearing Diana's official logo went on sale Monday -- provoking complaints about commercialism, even though the money will go to charity...