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
Vanessa Redgrave narrated Patrick Keiller's semi-fictional documentary, "Robinson in Ruins" (2010). Since 2012, Redgrave has narrated the BBC series "Call The Midwife". She also played leading roles in two historical films: Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" (which marked actor Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut), in which she plays Volumnia; and Roland Emmerich's "Anonymous" (both 2011), as . Subsequently, she starred with Terence Stamp and Gemma Arterton in the British comedy-drama "Song for Marion" (US: "Unfinished Song", 2012) and with Forest Whitaker in "The Butler" (2013), directed by Lee Daniels. She also appeared with Steve Carell and Channing Tatum in the drama "Foxcatcher" (2014). In 2017, at