What is "barrymore"

Barrymore is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Barrymore family of American actors
• Earl of Barrymore, a title in the Kingdom of Ireland dating to 1622

Barrymore is a two-person play by William Luce which depicts John Barrymore a few months before his death in 1942 as he is rehearsing a revival of his 1920 Broadway triumph as Richard III.

Barrymore's attempted revival of his Richard III never actually took place and was a device that was invented for the play, but it served as a dramatic framework for the actor to reminisce about various episodes in his life and about his career downslide due to alcoholism.

Though classified as a one-person play, Barrymore actually makes frequent use of a second character, Frank the stage manager, who interacts with Barrymore over the theatre loudspeaker.

The play was originally produced at the Stratford Festival of Canada in 1996. The play was produced on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre, running from March 25, 1997 to November 2, 1997. Directed by Gene Saks, Christopher Plummer played Barrymore, and won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.

Ben Brantley, in his review for The New York Times, wrote "Mr. Luce's script has a lurching quality that isn't just a matter of its subject's alcoholic disjunctiveness. And even for a work about a man whose life was a long-running performance, the play is overstuffed with one-liners...impersonations (of everyone from W. C. Fields to John's regal siblings, Ethel and Lionel, marvelously rendered) and the sort of stories that show up in books with titles like Amusing Theatrical Anecdotes. Yet Mr. Plummer and Mr. Saks have turned this fragmented material into something as fluid, stinging and warming as the cocktail (a Manhattan?) Barrymore mixes for himself onstage. And the evening (starting with the frayed lushness in autumnal colors of Santo Loquasto's backstage set) takes on an affecting shimmer of twilight, even as Mr. Plummer's Barrymore delights you with his own delight in his silly, ribald jokes."

Barrymore is a barony in County Cork in Ireland. It is the namesake of the de Barry family, Old English family latterly created Earls of Barrymore. Barrymore is bordered by eight baronies:

• To the south-west, the Barony of Cork and the Barony of Cork City
• to the west, the Barony of Barretts
• To the north-west, Duhallow
• To the north, the Barony of Fermoy
• To the north-east, Condons and Clangibbon
• To the east, Kinnataloon
• To the south-east, Imokilly

It stretches from the Nagle Mountains in the north, through the valley of the River Bride, to the north shore of Cork Harbour, including Little Island, Great Island, and Haulbowline Island.

Barrymore is a Light entertainment show in the United Kingdom, produced by LWT for ITV between 21 December 1991 and 29 December 2000.

Barrymore is a surname.

Barrymore may also refer to:

• Barrymore family, an American acting family
• Barrymore (barony), a barony in County Cork in Ireland
• Earl of Barrymore, a title in the Peerage of Ireland
• Barrymore (play), a play by William Luce
• Barrymore (TV series), a British light entertainment show