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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Lee_Hall_(playwright)Lee Hall (playwright) - Wikipedia

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   Lee Hall (born 20 September 1966) is an English writer and lyricist. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the film Billy Elliot (2000) and the book and lyrics for its adaptation as a stage musical of the same name.

2. literature.britishcouncil.org › writer › lee-hallLee Hall - Literature - British Council

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   Playwright Lee Hall was born in Newcastle in 1966. His acclaimed play Spoonface Steinberg (1997), a monologue for a nine-year-old autistic girl dying of cancer, was first broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 1997.

   • Place Of Birth: Newcastle, England

   • Works For: Methuen Publishing Ltd

3. www.newsweek.com › 2018/11/30 › network-1976-filmMadder Still: How Playwright Lee Hall Adapted the Prophetic ...

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   Nov 20, 2018 · Still, Hall does tack on a final moment that is squarely aimed at our times. The film's Beale never learns the limits of anger; he's murdered on camera after publicly criticizing USB's sponsors.

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4. www.scotsman.com › news › interview-lee-hallInterview: Lee Hall, playwright - The Scotsman

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   Jul 25, 2011 · Published 25th Jul 2011, 01:00 BST. When Lee Hall stumbled across the story of a group of miners who became celebrated painters, he found its strong personal resonance impossible to resist. LEE...

5. themusic.com.au › features › lee-hall-our-ladies-of'Billy Elliot' Writer Lee Hall Reclaims The Story Of The ...

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   Oct 4, 2016 · When playwright Lee Hall penned his international megahit Billy Elliot, he gave birth to a new dramatic archetype: the creative and cultural rags to riches story, where bright but unrecognised ...

6. www.theartsdesk.com › theatre › theartsdesk-qatheartsdesk Q&A: Dramatist Lee Hall | The Arts Desk

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   Oct 2, 2011 · This last was a truly audacious monologue spoken by a nine-year-old autistic girl who is dying of cancer – in one stage production it was performed by Kathryn Hunter, who was 42 at the time.

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   How did Lee Hall die?

   • Lee Hall, 53, was pronounced dead at 7:26 p.m. at a Nashville maximum-security prison, prison officials said. He chose the electric chair over Tennessee’s preferred execution method of lethal injection — an option allowed inmates in the state who were convicted of crimes before January 1999.

   Blind Tennessee inmate who set woman on fire executed by electric chair

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   Who is Lee Hall?

   • Lee Hall is a writer whose work is firmly rooted in the expression of the political through the personal. He is perhaps most associated with the film Billy Elliot (2000), for which he wrote the screenplay, and with Spoonface Steinberg (1997), written for radio and later adapted for the stage.

   Lee Hall - Literature - British Council

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   When did Lee Hall ReWrite 'I Luv you Jimmy Spud' & 'The Pitmen Painters'?

   • He adapted his own play, I Luv You Jimmy Spud (1997), as a feature film starring Billy Connolly in 2000. Lee Hall co-wrote the screenplay for the film, Pride and Prejudice, in 2005, and adapted The Wind in the Willows for television, in 2006. The Pitmen Painters (2008) is a new play premiered at the Live Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 2007.

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   Why was Hall attracted to the characters in Our Ladies of Perpetual success?

   • Adapted from Alan Warner's book The Sopranos, Hall was attracted to the characters in Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour, for much the same reasons. "The kinds of women we meet in this play are often really vilified. They're painted as feckless; they get pregnant; they're the bane of society, leeching off the state with handouts and benefits.

   'Billy Elliot' Writer Lee Hall Reclaims The Story Of The Working

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8. www.latimes.com › archives › la-xpm-2001-may-15-meJason Miller; Actor, Playwright Received a Tony and a Pulitzer

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   May 15, 2001 · Jason Miller, an actor and playwright whose “That Championship Season” won a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize as the best play of 1973, died Sunday of a heart attack at his home in Scranton, Pa....