By Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe
Who is Who in modern international Theatre is a full of life and available biographical consultant to the major figures in modern drama. All who benefit from the theatre will locate their excitement better and their wisdom prolonged by means of this attention-grabbing paintings of reference. Its certain mixture of data, research and anecdote makes for unique and enlightening examining. highly influential innovators, family names, and an entire host of much less established, overseas figures - all have their lives and careers illuminated by means of the transparent and succinct entries. All professions linked to the theatre are represented right here - actors and administrators, playwrights and architects. through advantage of the huge diversity of its assurance, who is Who in modern international Theatre bargains a special perception into the wealthy range of overseas drama this present day.
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Born in Hungary, Barth trained for the stage in Hannover. Following six years in Frankfurt (1968–74), where she played in productions of Peter Palitzsch and Hans NEUENFELS, she has been working freelance since 1974, appearing in Stuttgart, Köln, Munich and Frankfurt. Parts include Martha in Edward ALBE E’S Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1983), Inès in Sartre’s Huis clos (In Camera, 1988), and Hippolita in John Ford’s T’is Pity She’s a Whore (19 92, directed by Michael BOGDANOV). More recently she appeared in Shaw’s Heartbreak House in Düsseldorf and in Ariane MNOCHKINE’S adaptation of Klaus Mann’s novel Mephisto in Köln (both 1997).
Bauer’s first play was Der Zikadenzüchter (The Cicada Breeder, 1992), followed by In den Augen eines Fremden (In the Eyes of a Stranger, 1993). With Tarkovsky as favourite film director and Beale, Simon Russell Actor, Great Britain. Beale first attracted attention in a small comic role as the Young Shepherd in The Winter’s Tale. He went on to play a number of comic parts for the Royal Shakespeare Company, including four out of five of the fops in a season of Restoration Comedies at the Swan: this allowed him to create a series of comic grotesques played with enormous zest and relish.
Atanasov, Atanas Gueorguiev (1955–) Actor, Bulgaria. He trained at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts ‘Krastjo Sarafov’, Sofia. As an actor, he worked for the National Theatre ‘Ivan Vazov’, the Bulgarian Army Theatre, Theatre 199, Youth Theatre and as an instructor of acting at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts ‘Krastjo Sarafov’, Sofia. Major parts include Pozzo in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Touch-stone in As You Like It, Frick in Arthur MILLER’S Last Yankee and Deeley in Harold PINTER’S Old Times.