Cool Hand Luke London West End Aldwych Theatre
Cool Hand Luke at the Aldwych Theatre London from 23rd September, 2011 'Wherever you go and what ever you do. Often play a real cool hand' Beneath a scorching Florida sun, Boss Godfrey watches the chain gang. Keeps his eye on Cool Hand Luke. War hero, trouble-maker, inspiration to his fellow inmates. And just the man Boss wants to crush...
Starring Marc Warren (Hustle, Mad Dogs) as the charismatic rebel, Cool Hand Luke is the hard-hitting story of a accurate original. He'll play it real cool inside the face of brutality. He'll usually get back up after a beating. He'll eat fifty eggs in an hour, to win a bet. A man who will not conform no matter what it expenses.
In a effective new adaptation for the stage by Emma Reeves, based on Donn Pearce's acclaimed novel, and directed by Andrew Loudon Cool Hand Luke will be the raw, uncompromising tale of sticking it to 'The Man'.
Cool Hand Luke can be a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Paul Newman. The screenplay was adapted by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson from the novel by Donn Pearce. The film attributes George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J.D. Cannon and Morgan Woodward.
Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the program. In 2005, the United States Library of Congress deemed Cool Hand Luke to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation within the National Film Registry.
Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is arrested for cutting the heads off parking meters one drunken night. He is sentenced to two years in prison and sent to a Florida prison camp, run by the heartless Captain (Strother Martin). Luke is revealed to be a decorated World War II veteran, and is initially known to the other prisoners as "Lucas War-Hero." Luke fails to observe the established pecking order among the prisoners and rapidly runs afoul with the prisoners' de facto leader, Dragline (George Kennedy). The pair spar, using the prisoners and guards watching, and even though Luke is severely outmatched by the larger Dragline, he repeatedly refuses to remain down and eventually Dragline refuses to fight further. Luke suffers a beating but wins the respect of Dragline along with the rest with the prison population. Later, Luke wins a poker game on a bluff having a worthless hand; Luke comments that "sometimes absolutely nothing could be a real cool hand," and Dragline gives him the nickname "Cool Hand Luke."
When the area among Wellington Street, Strand and Fleet Street was reconstructed in the last years with the nineteenth century, much of London's old theatre land was wiped out. The new streets of Aldwych and Kingsway had been constructed, with plans getting drawn up for the constructing of two theatres with identical facades along the Aldwych. There was to be 1 on the corner of Catherine Street, and the other on the corner of Drury Lane. Between the two theatres there was to be a magnificent hotel, The Waldorf.
The Aldwych Theatre was created by W G R Sprague and built by Walter Wallis of Balham for Seymour Hicks. The Aldwych theatre launched having a production of Blue Bell, a brand new version of Hicks' well-liked pantomime Bluebell in Fairyland. In 1906, Hicks' The Beauty of Bath, then followed in 1907 by The Gay Gordons played at the theatre. In February 1913 the theatre was utilized by Serge Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky for the initial rehearsals of Le Sacre du Printemps prior to its controversial premire in Paris later that year.
Starring Marc Warren (Hustle, Mad Dogs) as the charismatic rebel, Cool Hand Luke is the hard-hitting story of a accurate original. He'll play it real cool inside the face of brutality. He'll usually get back up after a beating. He'll eat fifty eggs in an hour, to win a bet. A man who will not conform no matter what it expenses.
In a effective new adaptation for the stage by Emma Reeves, based on Donn Pearce's acclaimed novel, and directed by Andrew Loudon Cool Hand Luke will be the raw, uncompromising tale of sticking it to 'The Man'.
Cool Hand Luke can be a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Paul Newman. The screenplay was adapted by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson from the novel by Donn Pearce. The film attributes George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J.D. Cannon and Morgan Woodward.
Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the program. In 2005, the United States Library of Congress deemed Cool Hand Luke to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation within the National Film Registry.
Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is arrested for cutting the heads off parking meters one drunken night. He is sentenced to two years in prison and sent to a Florida prison camp, run by the heartless Captain (Strother Martin). Luke is revealed to be a decorated World War II veteran, and is initially known to the other prisoners as "Lucas War-Hero." Luke fails to observe the established pecking order among the prisoners and rapidly runs afoul with the prisoners' de facto leader, Dragline (George Kennedy). The pair spar, using the prisoners and guards watching, and even though Luke is severely outmatched by the larger Dragline, he repeatedly refuses to remain down and eventually Dragline refuses to fight further. Luke suffers a beating but wins the respect of Dragline along with the rest with the prison population. Later, Luke wins a poker game on a bluff having a worthless hand; Luke comments that "sometimes absolutely nothing could be a real cool hand," and Dragline gives him the nickname "Cool Hand Luke."
When the area among Wellington Street, Strand and Fleet Street was reconstructed in the last years with the nineteenth century, much of London's old theatre land was wiped out. The new streets of Aldwych and Kingsway had been constructed, with plans getting drawn up for the constructing of two theatres with identical facades along the Aldwych. There was to be 1 on the corner of Catherine Street, and the other on the corner of Drury Lane. Between the two theatres there was to be a magnificent hotel, The Waldorf.
The Aldwych Theatre was created by W G R Sprague and built by Walter Wallis of Balham for Seymour Hicks. The Aldwych theatre launched having a production of Blue Bell, a brand new version of Hicks' well-liked pantomime Bluebell in Fairyland. In 1906, Hicks' The Beauty of Bath, then followed in 1907 by The Gay Gordons played at the theatre. In February 1913 the theatre was utilized by Serge Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky for the initial rehearsals of Le Sacre du Printemps prior to its controversial premire in Paris later that year.
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