Theatre
The following is a partial list of Thompson's theatre credits:
- 1982 – Appeared in Not the Nine O'Clock News – UK tour.
- 1982 – Co-wrote and appeared in Beyond the Footlights – Lyric Hammersmith, London.
- 1984 – Wrote and starred in the one woman show Short Vehicle – Edinburgh Festival.
- 1984/5 – Played Sally in the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester production of the musical Me and My Girl, co-starring with Robert Lindsay. The show then successfully transferred to the Adelphi Theatre, London. (The book for Me and My Girl was adapted by Stephen Fry)
- 1989 – Played Alison in Look Back in Anger by John Osborne – Lyric Shaftesbury, London.
- 1990 – Played The Fool in Shakespeare's King Lear and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream – International tour.
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Famous quotes containing the word theatre:
“Glorious bouquets and storms of applause ... are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. But to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one’s own life.”
—Dame Alice Markova (b. 1910)
“Mankind’s common instinct for reality ... has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life’s supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man’s frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Compare ... the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)