Johnstone's Life And Background

He studied at Sydney University and was involved in the University’s Dramatic Society, consolidating his career in drama. After Gow graduated from university, he went on to act with Nimrod, Thalia and Sydney Theatre Companies. During the 1980’s Gow was cast in films, television shows and theatre productions, including the television series, The Young Doctors. Gow has won many awards, including his latest award in 2008, the Helpmanns Award for the best new Australian work.

4) How did the work of established and recognised theatre practitioners, and/or the work of live theatre, influence the way in which your devised response developed?

Born on 30th October in Toronto, Ontario, Findley enjoyed a luxurious life style. He was raised in the upper class family, attended boarding school at St. Andrew's College. Although Findley had to drop out of 10th grade due to his health issues, he never ended his passion for writing. He continued to pursue a career in arts, dance and acting, and eventually became an actor before he turned towards writing. He was part of the original Stratford Festival Company in the 1950s, acting alongside Alec Guinness, and appeared in the first production of Thornton Wilder's ‘The Matchmaker’ at the Edinburgh Festival. He also played Peter Pupkin in Sunshine Sketches, the CBC Television adaptation of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.

He made his professional acting debut in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. He was only 11 years old then. After that he continued performing in regional theatre productions throughout the Seattle-are. Some of his theatre

James Hurst was born in Jacksonville, Carolina on January 1st, 1922. Before he ever began writing, he focused more on chemical engineering and was interested in opera. However, he he went to college, he was drafted into World War II. After he had served his time in the war, he wanted

"Young Goodman Brown," a story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, should be interpreted on a psychoanalytical level rather than a religious one. It is my observation that "Young Goodman Brown" may very well be the first published work alluding to divisions of the mind and personality theory. Although religion is a direct theme throughout the story, "Young Goodman Brown" appears to be an allegory with deeper meanings.

Having been bitten by the “acting bug,” Brendan produced his own plays from the age of 16. Moreover, the culmination of his work led to his being accepted at New York University at the age of 17, and even spending a year at the Royal Academy in London to further refine his skills. While

John Henry Brodribb, or better known as Sir Henry Irving, was born on February 6, 1838 in Keinton Mandeville, Somerset, England. He died October 13, 1905 at Bradford, Yorkshire at the age of 68. Henry is one of the most famous of English actors in his time. He was one of the first of his profession to be knighted, in 1895, for amenities to the stage. Interesting fact about him is that he was also a distinguished theatre manager and the expert partner of the actress Ellen Terry for 24 years (1878–1902). Neither of his parents were into theatre, so he did not get his appreciation of the art from them. Irving’s father, Samuel Brodribb, was a salesman who collected orders for the tailoring department of the local store. His mother, Mary,

“I spent some of my childhood backstage in a small-town theatre. My earliest interest in storytelling came from the theatre, and I imagined myself as an actor. But Great Expectations and other novels by Dickens inspired me to want to write.

Ogden Nash was born on August 19th, 1902. Being born in Rye, New York, he lived a fairly regular life except his father’s job had them moving around quite a bit. Edmund Nash, Ogden’s father, was a real estate developer. Ogden also had a mother, Mattie Chennault. An ancestor of his was a past governor of North Carolina. At the age of six, Ogden took a large interest in poem writing. He began to write down lines and poems in his free time. At the age of 14, he started keeping a journal of his poems. Ogden attended St. George's School and eventually became an alumni there. He was later accepted into Harvard University until he dropped out of the

Very little is known about literature's most famous playwright. We know that the King's New Grammar School taught boys basic reading and writing. We assume William attended this school since it existed to educate the sons of Stratford but we have no definite proof. Likewise a lack of evidence suggests that William, whose works are studied universally at Universities, never attended one himself!

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1966), a well-known English novelist, short-story writer, playwright and essayist, was the son of a British diplomat. He was born in 1874 in Paris and educated at King's School in Canterbury, studied painting in Paris, went to Heidelberg University in Germany and studied to be a doctor at St. Thomas Hospital in England. Although Somerset Maugham did not denounce the contemporary social order, he was critical of the morals, the narrow-mindedness and hypocrisy of bourgeois society.

poet, Playwright and an actor. He’s known as the best writer in the English language and the

“Culture is composed of people’s widely shared, deeply held, often unstated and unconscious assumptions, beliefs, and internal values. It is the leadership when there are no leaders” (Rosenfeld & Euchner, 2012).

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