The Thai-born resident is head of Action Theatre, a repertory group whose plays and musicals are popular among yuppies.

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In 1934, when she was 20, she joined a company called Theatre of Action, founded by Ewan MacColl, a folk singer she later married.

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That a modern state was searching, at great expense and at a cost to its own war effort, to find a fifteen-year-old girl in an attic in Amsterdam in order to get her on a train bound for a concentration camp in Poland showed something new in the theatre of human action.

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"Theatre staff needed to take emergency action to ensure patient safety, " it said.

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As part of the day of action union members will stage a piece of street theatre highlighting what it calls the dangers of outsourcing.

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According to the Hollywood Reporter, security staff at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre took issue with Kristina Reed for recreating the action of Paperman, this year's best animated short.

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At the launch, held in the National Theatre, a packed auditorium heard government officials pledge their support and promise action.

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The stage version, at London's Adelphi Theatre, has been reworked by Alexander Dinelaris putting Headley's Rachel Marron at the centre of the action and beefing up the role of Rachel's sister, and love rival - while also highlighting Houston's own canon of songs.

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The production, by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch, of the Improbable theatre company, immaculately splits the difference between the historical and the visionary, intermingling scenes of Gandhi in action with vividly imagined motifs out of the Bhagavad Gita, from which the sung text is drawn.

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