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who was suddenly given the gift of composing song; The play was first broadcast on BBC radio, and then performed by the Next Stage Company directed by
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denouncing his privileges as an Egyptian-reared soldier and finding new responsibility as a leader of his people. The play was produced by actress
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was produced at the Oxford Playhouse in 1948. The plot is that of Egypt in the throes of a threatening conflict between master and slave, with
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of British theatre in the mid-1950s. Despite working mainly for the cinema in the 1960s, he continued to write plays, including
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Mrs Thatcher quotation in The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations, edited by JM and MJ Cohen, (Viking, 1993)
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to declaim, "You turn if you want to — the lady’s not for turning," at the Conservative Party conference in 1980.
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in 1950, again with Burton. The play marked a revival in popularity for poetic drama, most notably espoused by
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Although Fry lived until 2005, his poetic style of drama began to fall out of fashion with the advent of the
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in 1934. As a curtain-raiser, he put on a revised version of a show he wrote when he was a schoolboy called
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Beginning in the 1950s, many of Fry's plays were adapted for the screen, mainly television. A version of
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in 2002 with Nancy Carroll and Benjamin Whitrow. In 2007, it was performed in a new production at the
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in 2005. His wife, Phyllis, whom he married in 1936, died in 1987. He was survived by their son, Tam.
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Repertory Players, which he ran for three years, directing and starring in the English premiere of
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had an understudy role that he wrote about in his memoir. This play followed the springtime of
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at the National Theatre in 2001 as one of the 100 best plays of the 20th century, with actors
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in 1954, was third in a quartet of "seasonal" plays, featured incidental music written by
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His professional career began to take off when he was commissioned by the vicar of
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1971 Writers Guild Best British Television Dramatization award nomination for
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During the next ten years, he concentrated on further translations, including
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in Yorkshire, June 1989. Further productions followed in London and Oxford.
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by the Next Stage Company, Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, Nov. 1987
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After the success of his post-war plays Fry bought Trebinshwn, a fine
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in 1938. It would be put on professionally in 1950 with the young
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is buried, and Vaughan's poetry was a strong influence on him.
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was revived at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 1967-68. starring
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If this is less than your best, then never, in my presence,
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followed in 1951, first performed at St Thomas' church in
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Leading Lady: The World and Theatre of Katharine Cornell
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His next plays were translations from French dramatists:
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and featured two songs specially written for the play by
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1962 Heinemann Award, Royal Society of Literature for
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Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections
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Other screenplays include the documentary 839:named the new Junior School hall after him. 89:Playwright, screenwriter, translator, critic 1552:Gittings, Robert William Victor (1911–1992) 1513: 899:. But he was uncredited for his efforts on 1856: 733:In later life Fry lived in the village of 341:. The show is a comedy that is based upon 38: 531:. 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Index

Christopher Mario Fry

Bristol
Chichester
Bedford Modern School
The Lady's Not for Burning
poet
playwright
The Lady's Not for Burning
Bristol
Lay Reader
Church of England
Quaker
Elizabeth Fry
Bedford Modern School
Froebel
Hazelwood School
Limpsfield
Surrey
Robert Gittings
Tunbridge Wells
George Bernard Shaw
A Village Wooing
She Shall Have Music
Thomas John Barnardo
Deborah Kerr
Steyning
West Sussex
Cuthman of Steyning
Richard Burton

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