Mark Taper Forum The auditorium was renamed the Amelia Taper Auditorium after a $2 million gift from the S. Mark Taper Foundation. The Taper has presented innovative plays since its 1967-opening of "The Devils" from playwright John Whiting about the sexual fantasies of a 17th-century priest and a sexually repressed nun. The play received a great deal of protest from local religious leaders and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, although the production continued. The production of such plays as "Murderous Angels", "The Dream on Monkey Mountain", "Children of a Lesser God", "Savages", "The Shadow Box", "The Kentucky Cycle" and "Angels in
Jemma Redgrave the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art at the age of 18. After graduation, Redgrave landed acting roles in the 1988 stage production of Strindberg's "Easter", in "Lady Windermere's Fan" in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as Emily in Thornton Wilder's "Our Town", Irina in a 1990 revival of Anton Chekhov's "The Three Sisters" in London's West End with her aunts Vanessa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave, in 1993 with Colin Firth in Alexander Griboyedov's Chatsky at the Almeida Theatre, London and in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 2001 at the Albery Theatre, London. In 2010, she appeared in New York's Public