Plays about sports are not often very good, plays about tennis even less so, and this particular contest — recently the subject of the film "Battle of the Sexes" — would seem to be overmined.
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He also wrote and directed plays about life on the inside.
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Mfoniso Udofia's twinned plays about Nigerian immigrants end their theatrical journey.
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I first started performing on the stage in plays about child labor.
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Mfoniso Udofia's twinned plays about Nigerian immigrants will end their theatrical journey.
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TAFTI We don't have a lot of plays about Islam coming out.
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There have been several plays about China produced in the last few years.
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Confusion can be salient, of course, in plays about confusion, whether moral or existential.
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If you don't like plays about children, wait until you see what children become.
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Playwrights will take prompts from attendees and generate short plays about the election. Nov. 8.
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Did someone declare this the Year to Dust Off Seldom Performed Plays About Feuding Brothers?
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That, like all the rest, plays about the surface, and never introduces me into the reality.
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I love the playwright Jocelyn Bioh for her irreverence and hilarious plays about the African experience.
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Theater Mfoniso Udofia's twinned plays about Nigerian immigrants will end their theatrical journey on June 11.
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Shinde and his group of volunteers have now performed some 12 street plays about misinformation on WhatsApp.
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BARBAGALLO In early plays I wrote I was the protagonist, plays about a screwed up 20-something.
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In the last year I've seen six new plays about young black men being murdered in America.
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I'm a goaltender who still plays about once a week, or as my work/family schedule allows.
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But such shows (let alone major productions of plays about lesbians) are in the minority this fall.
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The most successful of these are the three '80s plays about military life known as the Eugene trilogy.
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Plays about queer people may find a home downtown, but they rarely make it to a big Broadway theater.
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There are three plays about journalism, one about Hillary Clinton, and one about snooker (naturally, it's imported from Britain).
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KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH I can't say I was super surprised, because people write plays about all kinds of things.
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Mann has embraced activism from her earliest plays about the Vietnam War, the Holocaust, and the murder of Harvey Milk.
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The Takacs Quartet plays about 100 concerts annually, does a lot of recording and tours for around half the year.
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Mr. Donner plays about a third of the 150 balls, galas and soirees his orchestras are hired for each year.
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It is so beautiful and festive, and "All I Want For Christmas Is You" plays about three times in a row.
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Arts | Connecticut By pairing two plays about painting, the Westport Country Playhouse asks its audiences to think about the art form.
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Lee has written plays about identity politics and identity crises in the lives of Asian-Americans, African-Americans, feminists and evangelicals.
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Plays about women's can-I-have-it-all conflicts too often resemble a Crate & Barrel catalog in both décor and decorum.
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And there was a feeling that there wasn't room for two plays about Africa and war to exist at the same time.
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The band plays about two gigs a month — a mix of original songs written by Galupo and covers, depending on the show.
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Athol Fugard wrote plays about South African life at a time when black and white actors could not appear together on stage.
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Trying to get through to kids with plays about guns and knives, for example, won't work "because that's not all people are".
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Shakespeare's plays about real-life political figures were never meant to be strict live-action reenactments of historical records for educational purposes.
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"We're delighted that the RSC is showcasing new, political plays about freedom of speech," Sarah Horne, a member of BP or not BP?
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We find wrenching, apocalyptic change lurking inside everything — enough to invoke just the kind of despair European intellectuals used to write plays about.
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I suppose anybody who plays about with precognition in this way to some extent sticks his neck out and must accept what he gets.
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As a smirk plays about the corners of Mr. Foster's mouth, his sneaky, fish-eyed performance suggests he is the director's designated hit man.
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But as he demonstrated in his earlier plays about international politics, including "The Overwhelming" and "Blood and Gifts," Mr. Rogers doesn't traffic in superheroes.
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" He tells her he wants to write "plays about human life — great tragic plays where the protagonist gets crushed because of some fatal weakness.
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The play, which grew out a Berkeley Repertory Theater experiment that commissioned numerous short plays about food, recently opened at that theater to excellent reviews.
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So many plays about fathers and sons owe a debt to "Hamlet," Shakespeare's tragedy about a prince mourning the death of his father, the king.
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He began writing plays about the same time, a number of them for Pocket Theater Cumbria, a small troupe of which he was a founder.
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Outside of racist sports mascots and plays about Thanksgiving, Native people are very rarely shown in the media, and almost never in a contemporary light.
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And then you have plays about China that have an overwhelmingly white cast, where predominantly the main stories that are being told are about white people.
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"Every show is new to me, even when, to my friends, it's a revival," said Ms. Ulman, who has a weakness for plays about dysfunctional families.
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Darío's return still stands sure in the Nicaraguan consciousness today — there are books and plays about it — though I got the feeling the moment carries some wistfulness.
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Dickerson, who stands 216 feet 256 inch and plays about half his games in left field, said he feels better when he shows up at the ballpark.
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Like Mr. Hnath's other plays about famous figures (Walt Disney, Isaac Newton), "Hillary" blends fiction with fact, aiming to subvert what audience members think they already know.
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Playing the title role in "The King," a story based on William Shakespeare plays about the 15th-century English monarch, was definitely intimidating for the actor, he says.
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He's been "deeply touched" watching the actors in Charm bloom, and he knows they can continue to do great work — whether in plays about trans identity or not.
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While Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and others have given us novels and plays about modern-day life on the "other continent," theirs are narrated from a male perspective.
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There have been a series of, in my opinion, quasi-racist plays about China, which have basically used the country as a backdrop for white people's self-discovery.
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He wrote heavily researched historical plays about the tap dance master Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Graham's uncle Paul, a one-pocket billiards champion better known as Detroit Slim.
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There's a silly kind of pleasure to be taken in twisting scientific data points — birth dates, orbits, planetary alignments — into little morality plays about our inconsequential personal dramas.
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Mr. Iyer and Mr. Sorey (who plays about half the trio's gigs, splitting duties with Marcus Gilmore) both use their instruments to create three-dimensional systems of balance.
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The playwrights Neil LaBute, Marco Calvani and Marta Buchaca join together for a trio of plays about power in the third installment of the Author Directing Author series.
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The Super NES Classic Edition is almost everything we could have ever asked for — except that it only plays about 20 games and you'll have to wait until Sept.
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The festival commissioned "Roe" as part of "American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle," a Shakespeare-inspired effort to generate 37 plays about moments of change in American history.
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Although Cash no longer has the scoring average of her years in Detroit and plays about half the minutes, Laimbeer knows she will always "give all she has," he said.
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"They're nutbags," he said, jokingly, about the prestigious theaters who have given a prime slot to a writer best known for low-budget, action-packed plays about superheroes and samurai.
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Like other intellectually rigorous plays about to open — J. T. Rogers's "Oslo," Paula Vogel's "Indecent" and Lynn Nottage's "Sweat" — "If I Forget" speaks to both the head and the heart.
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That formed the basis for "Dance of the Neurons," the film that plays about halfway through "The Brain Piece," as audience members — limited to 72 a show — enter the theater.
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To its detriment, "Return" perhaps pushes a little too hard on the "These are just normal folks!" button that morality plays about the evils of the rich have always pushed.
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He was 20103 when "Lovers and Other Strangers," four short plays about couples of various ages and situations that he wrote with his wife, Renée Taylor, opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theater.
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The read-aloud play is centered on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and was published by Scholastic in 2003 as an anthology of short instructional plays about colonial America, the newspaper reported.
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In the leftist world of the theatre, where nearly everyone works for nothing and most playwrights are worried about making rent, plays about business often have all the subtlety of a tuba player.
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Mr. Felder — who fronts a cottage industry of similar plays about Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Leonard Bernstein — is a far better pianist than mimic, but this, too, turns out to be a problem.
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Mr. Simon was the populist whose accessible, joke-packed plays about the anxieties of everyday characters could tickle funny bones in theaters across the country as well as in 1,200-seat Broadway houses.
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Coed plays about tennis have included Anna Ziegler's "The Last Match" and Kevin Armento and Bryony Lavery's "Balls," which reproduced the infamous "battle of the sexes" match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
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There are other plays about rape in which a woman's experience is unquestioned, from the devastating, like "Nhirbaya," to the luridly risible, like "Extremities," though stranger rape typically helps make these assaults more credible.
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I remembered the effect plays about gay life — good, bad, teasing, campy, hysterical or sanctimonious — had on me as a Junior Gay back when gay rights weren't much further along than trans rights are now.
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"Fences" is part of a cycle of 10 plays about the African-American experience that amounts to a critique of the American dream from the standpoint of people intent on defying their exclusion from it.
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Covering American life is like covering one of those traumatizing Eugene O'Neill plays about a family where everyone screams at each other all night and then when dawn breaks you get to leave the theater.
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When I first wrote this play, certainly people were self-producing plays about trans folks and people of color, and trans people of color, and that was happening, but it was happening very under the radar.
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Some theaters are staging Mike Daisey's comedic monologue "The Trump Card," while many others have brought back plays about political figures, from Frank Rizzo in Philadelphia to Lyndon Baines Johnson in Cleveland and Costa Mesa, Calif.
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"A few guys I play with are talking about going to Pennsylvania because some of their courses are open," Tom Avers, who plays about 100 rounds annually at the Somerset courses in New Jersey, said Monday morning.
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The Bard wrote plays about the history of his own country, England, but he also wrote about major figures from Roman history, in addition to using old poems, myths, and stories as the basis for his work.
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Yet the script and stage directions transformed what had aspects of a random encounter into something recognizable from any number of films or plays about troubled, volatile affairs and marriages, particularly as depicted in the 1960s and '70s.
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Given that there's no shortage of plays about the feats of distinguished men, perhaps the next onstage biography of a 19th-century luminary might feature a protagonist who is beardless because of her gender, rather than her age.
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Trish has been a writer on several TV sitcoms and also penned columns in the New York Daily News and Boston Globe, in addition to a romance novel, "Liberated Lady," and two plays about her experience with Alzheimer's disease.
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But by bearing down on what is — and isn't — human (or humane), his work — namely "An Octoroon" and "Gloria" — makes formally sophisticated, aggressively anthropological, unexpected challenges to what a black playwright is even "supposed" to be writing plays about.
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And the Public is taking to festivals in Hong Kong and Australia Mr. Nelson's latest plays, about an upstate New York family called the Gabriels, dramatic works that Mr. Eustis believes can give global audiences insight into contemporary American life.
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Inspired by Shakespeare's plays about Henry IV and Henry V, known as the Henriad, The King predominantly focuses on a fictionalized version of Henry V's (Timothée Chalamet) rise to power as one of the most notable monarchs of the 15th century.
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William Luce, who in his 21974s turned from a musical career to writing one-character plays about Emily Dickinson, Isak Dinesen, Lillian Hellman and John Barrymore — all of which were produced on Broadway — died on Tuesday in Green Valley, Ariz.
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Last spring, the Belgian director Ivo van Hove applied a thick coat of mud to two Euripides plays about their family saga at the Comédie-Française; Milo Rau took the pair to Iraq for "Orestes in Mosul," a production created in part with local actors.
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Name-checking politicians couldn't be further from the minds of the motley assemblage just trying to get through the day in "Faith, Hope and Charity," the last in an important trio of plays about life in Britain now from the writer-director Alexander Zeldin.
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The program (which is called "The Other Plays: Short Plays About Diversity and Otherness") is thought-provoking, but it feels 1,000 miles from the mainstream represented by the Belasco, where the best seat for "The Glass Menagerie" can set you back more than $200.
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"Downtown Race Riot" is not only set in the 1970s; it also feels as if it might have been written during that time, by someone who had seen and admired both the Martin Scorsese film "Mean Streets" and Lanford Wilson's lyrical plays about social misfits.
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A. I kind of have three veins: plays about history with a kind of feminist understanding or reinvestigation of history and science; wilder, comedic modern plays, sometimes leaning into farce, often with a thread of Shakespeare in them; and the outliers, which "I and You" certainly is.
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These days you can find: Mamey, an L.G.B.T.Q.-friendly cultural space featuring a bookstore, gallery and theater; Microteatro, which delivers 15-minute plays about Dominican life; and Miss Rizos Salón, a hair parlor that often hosts events to fight the stigma against kinky or curly hair.
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But he did have an aversion to plays about disaster and disease (he turned down "The Elephant Man," for example, and disapproved when his niece Amy Nederlander helped produce a 1997 revival of "The Diary of Anne Frank"), and it's fair to say that too much speechifying onstage made him impatient.
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It's a jarring mix of the historical and the contemporary in Nurkan Erpulat's new production of "Youth Without God," based on the 1937 novel by Odon von Horvath, the prolific writer whose books and plays about everyday existence in the shadow of fascism have had a new lease on life.
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The run will include plays about race and justice ("American Son", "To Kill a Mockingbird"), gay love and shame ("Torch Song Trilogy", "The Prom", "Choir Boy"), rapacious greed and hucksterism ("Glengarry Glen Ross"), perverse news-spinning ("Network", "Ink"), and the grisly fate of a vain ruler who is undermined by his inner circle ("King Lear").
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Instead, most of the movie is a slog of a military recon mission that reaches its climax with a battle against a CGI witch called Enchantress (a potential team recruit who bucked her programming) that resembles the original Ghostbusters' climatic showdown with Gozer, right down to the swirling death-hole that plays about the peaks of a skyscraper.
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Tony Kushner's landmark two-part play isn't just evoked here because Pose is about LGBTQ New Yorkers living in the midst of the AIDS crisis — though given Murphy's love of plays about the history of gay men in America (he produced a Broadway revival of The Boys in the Band and directed an HBO version of The Normal Heart), it's not hard to imagine he had Angels on the mind.
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The club plays about 20 matches per year, some on Thursday evenings, others on Sunday afternoons.
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Transgender director Saman Arastoo directs plays about trans people in Iran, casting transgender actors in the roles.
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In Abraham's Bosom is a play by American dramatist Paul Green. He was based in North Carolina and wrote historical plays about the South.
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Other plays about Tubman include Harriet's Return by Karen Jones Meadows and Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist by Carolyn Gage.Sernett 2007, pp. 239–240.
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Paul Maunder, who lives in the town, is a playwright who has written and staged a number of plays about the town and working-class history.
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Fellows is also the author of several passion plays about mathematics, with mathematical proofs enacted on-stage, which were performed at the Fringe Theatre in British Columbia.
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At least three other 5th-century BC authors who were younger than Sophocles wrote plays about Oedipus. These include Achaeus of Eretria, Nichomachus and the elder Xenocles.
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Ali Hamedani, The gay people pushed to change their gender, November 5, 2014, BBC Transgender director Saman Arastoo directs plays about and starring trans people in Iran.
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Astrid Lindgren och teatern. Hslmstad: Makadam. P. 18 She had previously staged some of Lindgren's plays, including plays about Pippi Longstocking. The story was not translated into English.
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This period saw the popularity of certain native character types, especially the "Yankee", the "Negro" and the "Indian", exemplified by the characters of Jonathan, Sambo and Metamora. Meanwhile, increased immigration brought a number of plays about the Irish and Germans, which often dovetailed with concerns over temperance and Roman Catholic. This period also saw plays about American expansion to the West (including plays about Mormonism) and about women's rights. Among the best plays of the period are James Nelson Barker's Superstition; or, the Fanatic Father, Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion; or, Life in New York, Nathaniel Bannister's Putnam, the Iron Son of '76, Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana, and Cornelius Mathews's Witchcraft; or, the Martyrs of Salem.
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He wrote two plays about the Ukrainian Civil War in the middle of the war.Balan, Jars. The Ukrainian Canadian stage, in Slavic Drama. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada 1991, page 228.
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He later wrote a book and two plays about Maud Lewis. Woolaver published earlier stories in the 1970s in Canadian literary magazines, including the Wascana Review (which ceased publication in 2012) and The Fiddlehead.
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After becoming involved with a theatre group in Coventry, Marten joined a newly formed theatre group in Doncaster. They toured Yorkshire, performing plays about various subjects, including the St Leger, and another about battered wives.
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After joining the Army as a private, Taylor became an officer via officer candidate school. Later he joined military intelligence and produced instructional plays about aspects of military intelligence to educate students from the Army.
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Jiraiya battles a giant snake with the help of his summoned toad. Woodblock print on paper. Kuniyoshi, c. 1843. The image of the ninja entered popular culture in the Edo period, when folktales and plays about ninja were conceived.
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Charles James Lee (2 March 1870 – 11 May 1956) was born in London. He published five novels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in addition to many short stories and plays about the working people of Cornwall.
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Over the past century, numerous plays about Socrates have also focused on Socrates's life and influence. One of the most recent has been Socrates on Trial, a play based on Aristophanes's Clouds and Plato's Apology, Crito, and Phaedo, all adapted for modern performance.
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By the end of 2006, a few new songs were written and Amelie started working with long-time friend Olivier Longre who plays about 20 different instruments and by the end of spring 2007, they were ready to record 15 new songs.
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More recent critics describe the play in retrospect as "dated", in part because of period- references to the 1970s, but also because gay farces and self-referential plays about plays became far more common in mainstream entertainment in the years after Medea's original production.
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Aristotle in the Poetics, in a reference to Telephus' appearance in a tragedy called Mysians, mentions "the man who came from Tegea to Mysia without speaking".Aristotle, Poetics 1460a 30-32\. Both Aeschylus and Sophocles wrote plays about Telephus, called Mysians, but since Sophocles, Mysians fr.
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He was inducted pastor at Bethlehem, Gwaelod-y-Garth in 1896. In 1943, he was chairman of the Glamorgan Congregational Union. Berry wrote plays about social issues in the Welsh language. A drama movement began about 1890 in Welsh communities, often with productions organised by Nonconformist churches.
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His early roles as an actor included theatrical productions of John Palmer's Singapore,"A bad taste that lingers". National Post, April 3, 2000. Fabrizio Filippo's Waiting for Lewis,"Plays about teens not up to challenge ; Productions confront questions of fame and homophobia". Toronto Star, April 17, 1999.
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The Saints day parades by the various crafts, enacting plays about their various patron saints, were however suppressed. Robert Cooper, the archivist of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, believes that the lost mystery play of the masons may survive in the ritual of contemporary masonic lodges.
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William Edgar Easton () was an American playwright, journalist, and political activist. He is best known for two plays about the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath: Dessalines (1893), a historical drama about Jean-Jacques Dessalines; and Christophe (1911), a drama about Henri Christophe, King of Haiti following the Revolution.
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Oboler tired of Lights Out because he wanted to write realistic plays about Fascism. "I found myself wanting the dimensions of that half hour on the air expanded to take in the actual horror of a world facing, with half-shut eyes, the fascistic Frankenstein's monster moving over Europe.".
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954 Some 50 or 60 Yuan and early Ming plays about the Three Kingdoms are known to have existed, and their material is almost entirely fictional, based on thin threads of actual history. The novel is thus a return to greater emphasis on history, compared to these dramas.
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Elizabeth Anne "Libby" Skala (April 20, 1967 – December 1, 2019) was an American actress and writer best known for plays about her Austrian-American relatives. She wrote four one-woman shows: Lilia!, A Time to Dance, Felicitas, and Irena Sendler: Rescuing the Rescuer, which she performed across North America and Europe.
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Racing Demon is a 1990 play by English playwright David Hare. Part of a trio of plays about British institutions, it focuses on the Church of England, and tackles issues such as gay ordination, and the role of evangelism in inner- city communities. The play debuted at the National Theatre.
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The Soviet Union: A Biographical Dictionary, Macmillan, 1990. After The Iron Flood, he published stories, sketches and plays about the building of the Soviet state and the growth of Soviet culture. In 1934, he was elected to the governing board of the Union of Soviet Writers. He died in Moscow in 1949.
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Its theology, like the Oriya text, centers around supreme light being same as "love in the heart". The 15th-century Bhakti scholar Shankaradeva of Assam became a devotee of Jagannatha in 1481, and wrote love and compassion inspired plays about Jagannatha-Krishna that influenced the region and remain popular in Assam and Manipur.
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Fireworks is a set of three one-act plays about American life by Jon Swan. The set includes the plays The Report, Football, and Fireworks For a Hot Fourth. The work premiered Off-Broadway at the Village South Theatre on June 11, 1969 where it ran for a total of seven performances.
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The story of Erdemovic's trial in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia forms the basis of the 2005 play A Patch of Earth, written by Kitty Felde and collected in the anthology The Theatre of Genocide: Four Plays about Mass Murder in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, and Armenia (University of Wisconsin Press, 2008).
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Wild is the fifth full-length studio album by British Pagan rock band Inkubus Sukkubus. "Death & The Virgin" is a hidden track that plays about 2 minutes after "Delilah" finishes. Also, "Atrocity" is the only Inkubus Sukkubus song besides "Resurrection Machine" and "Jerusalem" which features Tony McKormack on lead vocals instead of Candia Ridley.
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With Jacques Roubaud of the Oulipo, she compiled, a series of 10 plays about the Arthurian legend, Graal Théâtre, from 1977 to 2005. She has been an actress, narrator, or writer in movies by Chris Marker, Hugo Santiago, Benoît Jacquot and Michel Deville. She was elected to the Académie française on 14 December 2000.
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Brian Drader (born 1960) is a Canadian stage actor and playwright."Manitoban Drader among 'fresh crop'". Winnipeg Free Press, October 21, 2003. He is best known for his plays ', about Alfred Kinsey and Clara McMillen, and The Fruit Machine, about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's controversial 1960s fruit machine project to identify homosexual people.
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He became known for his song about the ape Julius, which appeared on his album of 1983. In the 1990s he became well known for his plays about the pirate Captain Sabertooth, in which he also played the title role for several years. He is the father of Janne Formoe, an actress and TV personality.
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Raby's interest in theatre about science developed through her plays The Pageant of the Comet (1987), Faust and the Human Genome (1999-2003), and Sheilagh Stephenson's play An Experiment with an Airpump, has resulted in several papers, most recently "Contracting the Audience for Plays About Science." Currently, she is working on a script about human fertility and biogenetic engineering.
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At first, being influenced from the , (—), he wrote romantic prose. Later, he switched to writing plays about everyday events and incidents taking place in the society; focusing more on social problems and quotidian issues. His later works were pragmatist and verisimilitudinous. He used simple and everyday language in his plays, which enabled them to get a greater audience.
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Marge takes Rod and Todd to the activity center. Ned follows her and is surprised to see Rod climbing a structure, yelling that he will get hurt. Rod gets worried and falls, chipping a tooth against the structure. A news broadcast plays about Bart's kidnapping, surprising Marge and causing Ned to view her as a bad mother.
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In 1951, Leigh and Laurence Olivier performed two plays about Cleopatra, William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, alternating the play each night and winning good reviews.Walker 1987, pp. 204–205. They took the productions to New York, where they performed a season at the Ziegfeld Theatre into 1952.Capua 2003, p. 119.
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With a purity at once spare and rich, she creates characters we not only feel we have broken bread with, but who have been in our dreams and crises.” Much of her work focuses heavily on narratives of Latinidad. She has written plays about Mexicans, Cubans, Spanish folks as well as White folks of different ethnicities.
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Lee Umstetter (Nick Nolte) is incarcerated in San Quentin for armed robbery, serving "life without possibility" (with no chance of parole). After two suicide attempts, Lee begins to read books from the prison library. He attends a performance of Waiting for Godot given for the prisoners and is deeply moved. He begins to write plays about imprisonment and then stages them, too.
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Ronnie Larsen is a playwright and film director specializing in writing plays about sex. His play Making Porn was about the gay porn industry in the 1980s, and the production was notable for casting gay porn actors. Productions have starred Blue Blake, Rex Chandler and Ryan Idol. In 1997 Larsen made a documentary about the gay porn industry entitled Shooting Porn.
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Yonder shining like the sun's rays between the branches of green willows trot along the bold companions. The horse of one neighs happily on and shies and rushes there, hooves shaking down blooms, grass, trampling wildly the fallen flowers. Hei! How frenzied his mane flutters, and hotly steam his nostrils! Golden sun plays about their form reflecting them in the clear water.
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According to Guy Beck, the music tradition did not develop in early Buddhism possibly because it was considered sensual and inconsistent with its core teachings. Later Buddhism did develop monastic chanting of the canonical literature, particularly in the ritualistic Vajrayana and other Mahayana traditions. Chants, songs and plays about the life of the Buddha by the Buddhists of Bengal were called Buddha-samkirtan.
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Ehrstine, p. 118 In the 1530s the carnival continued, but the entertainment had a different emphasis than in the earlier decade. Records show that plays with a serious religious subject were put on as early as the 1530s in Bern, with Hans von Rüte's Abgötterie (1531) possibly being the first. Hans von Rüte wrote plays about Biblical themes for the Bern carnival.
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Aurora Stewart de Peña (born October 4, 1979) is a Canadian playwright and director. Born in Stratford, Ontario"Creepin’ conversations". The Varsity, January 27, 2013. and based in Toronto, she is the author of 36 Little Plays About Hopeless Girls, which premiered at the Tranzac Club in Toronto in August 2006, going on to gain critical praise at the 2009 Toronto Fringe Festival.
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In 2001, the event was officially renamed 'Day of Remembrance'. The National Day of Hatred is still marked in Cambodia, although the commemorations are of smaller scale today. Since the massive defections from the remaining Khmer Rouge guerrillas, the National Day of Hatred lost much of its prominence. Still commemorations are held, such as public theatre plays about the Khmer Rouge period.
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Schipper was best known as the publisher of Calvin, De Brune, and particularly for Cats’ complete works. He was also an accomplished translator of French prose, and a theatre poet in his own right. His most successful works are two plays about the “incomparable” Ariane, which featured the first woman to perform in Amsterdam theatre, Ariane Nooseman.K. ter Laan, Letterkundig woordenboek voor Noord en Zuid.
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They wrote mystery plays, where each part of the Shahname would be a play put on by a different group of people. They also wrote miracle plays which were plays about the lives of the heroes. There were also morality plays which taught the audiences how to live a good life. In the time of Safavid dynasty this kind of theater flourished in all parts of Iran.
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The company was founded by actor and director Barbara Oliver in 1992 with the desire to continue to produce plays "about something important; ideas mediated by language and people, which are assisted by other elements like sets, lights and costumes," not dominated by them. The founders of Aurora Theatre Company came together around the development and production of a new play: Dorothy Bryant's Dear Master.
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In 1844, Melbourne writer Thomas McCombie published a supposedly true-life account of Westwood in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. The following year, he collaborated with playwright James McLaughlin in dramatising the story for the theatre. Titled Jackey Jackey, the N.S.W. Bushranger, it was not performed publicly until 1852, due to the colonial government's fear that plays about bushrangers would encourage anti-authoritarian attitudes.Fotheringham, Richard; Turner, Angela (2006).
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All of these plays about Telephus are now lost. We know of them only through preserved fragments, and the reports of other ancient writers. Each of the three great tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides wrote multiple plays which featured the story. Aeschylus wrote a play called Mysians which perhaps told the story of Telephus coming to Mysia and seeking purification for having killed his maternal uncles.
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Rao wrote stories, songs, ballets and dramas for children and published a song compilation entitled Palavelli. Another work entitled Oppulakuppa consists of plays about national integrity and the importance of education and agriculture. His book of plays Ranga Bala - Ananda Mandiram is a compilation of children's stage plays. He established an educational institution called Bala Bharathi for the promotion of cultural activities for children.
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He becomes the instrument of his mother Maryanne revenge against his own father, Lieutenant Coyle. Butler said of the play, More than anything I want to put the audience in the eye of the storm. There are a lot of plays about war and colonialism that are wry and ironic and theoretical and that’s all very well, but it’s always taking a step backwards from the reality.
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She studied drama, and graduated with distinction from Queen Margaret University College in 2002. She lived and worked in Central and Eastern Europe from 2003 to 2005, and ran a comedy club in Budapest. She appeared in the films The Best Man (2005) and Joy Division (2006). She has written three plays about Robert Burns and presented three programmes about him on BBC Radio Scotland.
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" The performance was directed by Vladimir Shcherban, and the premiere took place on May 28, 2005 in one of Minsk clubs. According to the website of the European Theatre Convention, "Since May 2005 the Free Theatre has produced seven performances based on thirteen plays. About 5,000 people attended performances of the Free Theatre in Belarus and more than 4,000 abroad during the first two years of existence.
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Miracles were attributed to Henry after his death, and he was informally regarded as a saint and martyr until the 16th century. He left a legacy of educational institutions, having founded Eton College, King's College, Cambridge, and (together with Henry Chichele) All Souls College, Oxford. Shakespeare wrote a trilogy of plays about his life, depicting him as weak-willed and easily influenced by his wife, Margaret.
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Mightysociety is a series of ten plays about current issues De Vroedt wrote and directed himself. The series started in 2004 with mightysociety1 about spin-doctors. The project ended in 2012 with mightysociety10, dealing with his own father and the developing economy in Indonesia. Topics De Vroedt discussed in his plays were, among others: Political populism, terrorism, the Global Age, the war in Afghanistan and ageing.
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However, scholar Christopher Metress connects the mockingbird to Boo Radley: "Instead of wanting to exploit Boo for her own fun (as she does in the beginning of the novel by putting on gothic plays about his history), Scout comes to see him as a 'mockingbird'—that is, as someone with an inner goodness that must be cherished."Metress, Christopher. "Lee, Harper." Contemporary Southern Writers.
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A spring training game between the Atlanta Braves and the Mets, 2008 The Major League Baseball's preseason is also known as spring training. All MLB teams maintain a spring-training base in Arizona or Florida. The teams in Arizona make up the Cactus League, while the teams in Florida play in the Grapefruit League. Each team plays about 30 preseason games against other MLB teams.
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Dyson, an expert on Shakespeare, was asked during the early 1960s to host some televised lectures and plays about the writer. Dyson's relaxed style resulted in him being cast in a small part in the 1965 film Darling as Professor Walter Southgate, a major literary character. Hugo Dyson appears as a primary character in James Owens' Imaginarium Geographica Series, Book Three "The Indigo King".
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He was also responsible for casting Terry Molloy as Davros, who went on to play the role twice more on television and in further audio dramas. Under pseudonym Henry Seaton he wrote 30 episodes of Central TV's Crossroads in 1986. Writing work also included two plays about television – Did Anyone Else Think TK9 Was Brilliant? and SUDS – staged in two London Fringe theatres in 1981 and 1983.
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José Enrique Rodó One of Uruguay's most famous works of literature is Ariel by José Enrique Rodó (1871–1917). Written in 1900, the book deals with the need to maintain spiritual values while pursuing material and technical progress. Florencio Sánchez (1875–1910) wrote plays about social problems that are still performed today. Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (1855–1931) wrote epic poems about Uruguayan history (notably Tabaré).
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Herr Seele dressed as Cowboy Henk In Kamagurka and Seele's comedy TV series Lava and Johnnywood sometimes short animated cartoons featuring Henk were seen, with Seele voicing his character. He also performed Cowboy Henk (with a yellow quiff tied to his bald head) while Kamagurka told Henk's surreal adventures to the audience. In their radio show Studio Kafka they also made audio plays about Henk.
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Lance Gerard Woolaver (born 1948) is an award-winning Canadian author, poet, playwright, lyricist, and director. His best-known works include books, film and biographical plays about Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis, including Maud Lewis The Heart on the Door, and Maud Lewis - World Without Shadows. His plays include one about international singer Portia White, who was born in Nova Scotia: Portia White - First You Dream.
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Barrie Stavis (June 16, 1906 - February 2, 2007) was an American playwright. He has authored several plays about men struggling in the vortex of history. His subjects include scientist Galileo, abolitionist John Brown, and labor leader Joe Hill. His play, Lamp at Midnight, about Galileo's struggle with the Catholic Church to get his ideas accepted, was performed and televised on the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1966.
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He wrote at least 100 plays for the Grand Guignol, such as The Old Woman, The Ultimate Torture, A Crime in the Mad House and more. He collaborated with experimental psychologist Alfred Binet to create plays about insanity, one of the theatre's favourite and frequently recurring themes. Camille Choisy served as director from 1914 to 1930. He contributed his expertise in special effects and scenery to the theatre's distinctive style.
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Prabhashankar 'Ramani' acted in several plays and also rose to fame. The company also travelled Karachi in 1905-06 where they was attacked by goons as well as a rumour of abduction of Sundari was circulated. Music director Vadilal Shivram Nayak composed scores of more than 500 songs in about forty plays. About hundred of these were published in Gujaratna Natak-Geetoni Sargam (Notations to Songs in Gujarati Plays, 1956).
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The Best Things in Life was published in 1998 and explored the lives of young Black women struggling to balance friendship, work and relationships. Her book Smoke Othello! published 2008 is a collection of poems, short stories and plays about black experience in West London, born out of her time as the Writer in Residence for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. She also performs her poetry.
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There he preserved and displayed many of Washington's belongings. Custis wrote historical plays about Virginia, delivered a number of patriotic addresses, and was the author of the posthumously-published Recollections and Private Memoirs of George Washington (1860). His daughter, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, married Robert E. Lee. They inherited Arlington House and the plantation surrounding it, but the property was soon confiscated by the federal government during the Civil War.
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Erua Theater was established in 1985 by Adina Tal and Rina Padua. An independent theater company specializing in interactive theater with a strong social engagement. Focus of the theater company was to deal with serious issues in a humorous way. In almost 15 years at Erua, Adina Tal wrote and directed multiple theater plays, including plays about violence, old age and Jewish identity and writing for Radio and Television programs.
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The song was later featured on the official soundtrack of the film S.F.W. (1994). The song is also mentioned playing on a car stereo in a scene from the play Slipping by Daniel Talbott, featured in Awkward Stages: Plays about Growing Up Gay (2015). Comedian Jen Kirkman references the song in her book I Know What I'm Doing–and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction (2016).
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Safdie was born in Haifa in the British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel), to Sephardic Jewish family of Syrian-Jewish and Lebanese-Jewish descent. In 1954, his family moved to Montreal, Quebec and in 1959, Safdie married Nina Nusynowicz, a Polish-Israeli, with whom he has two children, a daughter and son.Master Builder Haaretz. 18 January 2007 His son Oren Safdie is a playwright who has written several plays about architecture.
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Stanisława Przybyszewska (; 1 October 1901 – 15 August 1935) was a Polish dramatist who is mostly known for her plays about the French Revolution. Her 1929 play The Danton Case, which examines the conflict between Maximilien Robespierre and Georges Danton, is considered to be one of the most exemplary works about the Revolution, and was adapted (albeit with significant ideological edits) by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda for his 1983 film Danton.
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A Very DNA Reunion is a 2010 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. It deals with the imprecise science of DNA technology. The play premiered as part of the production The DNA Trail: A Genealogy of Short Plays About Ancestry, Identity, and Confusions, a night of short plays. It premiered as part of the Silk Road Theatre Project on March 8, 2010 at the historic Chicago Temple Building.
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The title page bears Ford's anagrammatic motto, "Fide Honor," and states that the play was performed "(some-times)" by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Phoenix or Cockpit Theatre. A second edition appeared in 1714 in duodecimo format. Ford's play was reportedly revived at Goodman's Fields in 1745, during Bonnie Prince Charlie's invasion of England; two other contemporary plays about Warbeck were also acted at that time.Dyce and Gifford, p. 110.
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Today, the intra-city conference still plays about half of its round-robin games there. St. Joseph's hosts its Big 5 games at the gym, which is larger than its own, the Michael Hagan Arena previously known as the Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse. During the 2008-09 basketball season Saint Joseph's played their home games at the Palestra while the then Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse was undergoing an extensive renovation to become the Hagan Arena.
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In 1940, he wrote, produced, and directed Angels Over Broadway, which was nominated for Best Screenplay. In total, six of his movie screenplays were nominated for Academy Awards, with two winning. Hecht became an active Zionist after meeting Peter Bergson. Shortly before the Holocaust began in Germany, he wrote articles and plays about the plight of European Jews, such as We Will Never Die in 1943 and A Flag is Born in 1946.
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Oscar Méténier Oscar Méténier was the Grand Guignol's founder and original director. Under his direction, the theatre produced plays about a class of people who were not considered appropriate subjects in other venues: prostitutes, criminals, street urchins and others at the lower end of Paris's social echelon. André Antoine was the founder of the Théâtre Libre and a collaborator of Metenier. His theatre gave Metenier a basic model to use for The Grand Guignol Theatre.
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Amid bushes and leaves they sit, gathering flowers in their laps and calling one another in raillery. Golden sun plays about their form reflecting them in the clear water. The sun reflects back their slender limbs, their sweet eyes, and the breeze teasing up the warp of their sleeves, directs the magic of perfume through the air. O see, what a tumult of handsome boys there on the shore on their spirited horses.
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The Prometheia () is a trilogy of plays about the titan Prometheus. It was attributed in Antiquity to the 5th-century BC Greek tragedian Aeschylus. Though an Alexandrian catalogue of Aeschylean play titles designates the trilogy Hoi Prometheis ("the Prometheuses"), in modern scholarship the trilogy has been designated the Prometheia to mirror the title of Aeschylus' only extant trilogy, the Oresteia. Unlike the Oresteia, only one play from this trilogy—Prometheus Bound—survives.
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Genres of the period included the history play, which depicted English or European history. Shakespeare's plays about the lives of kings, such as Richard III and Henry V, belong to this category, as do Christopher Marlowe's Edward II and George Peele's Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First. History plays dealt with more recent events, like A Larum for London which dramatizes the sack of Antwerp in 1576. Tragedy was a very popular genre.
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It was the twelfth three-act play written by McEnroe, who worked at a factory as a day job. The previous eleven plays had not been commercially produced, although there had been some interest in the eleventh. McEnroe had been told there was no audience for plays about old people and was determined to prove them wrong. He says he was also inspired by the various vagabonds he met at a bar in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Hermann Gauch, Heinrich Himmler's adjutant for culture, took the view that Charlemagne (known in German as Karl der Große 'Karl the Great') should be officially renamed "Karl the Slaughterer" because of the massacre. He advocated a memorial to the victims. Alfred Rosenberg also stated that the Saxon leader Widukind, not Karl, should be called "the Great". In Nazi Germany, the massacre became a major topic of debate. In 1934, two plays about Widukind were performed.
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Gingold's autobiography, How to Grow Old Disgracefully, was published posthumously in 1988. It had previously been published in instalments: The World Is Square (1946), My Own Unaided Work (1952) and Sirens Should Be Seen and Not Heard (1963). She also wrote a play called Abracadabra and contributed original material to the many revues in which she performed. The Gingold Theatrical Group in New York is a company devoted to producing plays about human rights.
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Mishima Yukio Literary Museum in Yamanakako, Yamanashi Much speculation has surrounded Mishima's suicide. At the time of his death he had just completed the final book in his Sea of Fertility tetralogy. He was recognized as one of the most important post-war stylists of the Japanese language. Mishima wrote 34 novels, about 50 plays, about 25 books of short stories, and at least 35 books of essays, one libretto, as well as one film.
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In 2012 he played William Kelly, an assistant electrician in Saving the Titanic alongside Andrew Simpson, his co-star in Song for a Raggy Boy. Chris Newman made his debut in the Abbey Theatre in February with two twenty-minute plays about love, life and relationships called Love in a Glass Jar and Ribbons. In 2013 he appeared in Quirke. Since 2015, Newman has played the corrupt Detective Rory Walsh in Red Rock.
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A 1990 production in Austin was staged at the John Henry Faulk Living Theatre. Playbill in 2013 selected Merton of the Movies as one of the five best plays about Hollywood. The play (rather than the novel) was used as the basis for the 1924 silent film Merton of the Movies in which Glenn Hunter reprised his Broadway role.. It was also the basis for the 1947 version, Merton of the Movies, starring Red Skelton.
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Genres of the period included the history play, which depicted English or European history. Shakespeare's plays about the lives of kings, such as Richard III and Henry V, belong to this category, as do Christopher Marlowe's Edward II and George Peele's Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First. History plays dealt with more recent events, like A Larum for London which dramatizes the sack of Antwerp in 1576. Tragedy was a very popular genre.
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Also released successful plays about life in the Indies, Totok en Indo (1915) and Nonnie (1916). After that, he continued to write plays but none were ever as successful as those pieces, and he gradually stopped writing for the stage in the 1920s. His piece Dolle Hans was performed in London during the 1930s, which convinced him to relocate to that country and hopefully find a second success there. He also met his second wife (Neville Colley) and remarried.
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NCBL games are being played on all nights of the week. Typically games are played at 6:00, 6:15, and 8:30pm on weeknights and at a variety of times during weekends on a number of different fields around the city. Tier 1 plays 2-3 nights a week, Tier's 2 & 3 play about 2 times a week and Tier 4 plays about once a week. All games are umpired and normal baseball rules are used.
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There have been several plays about the massacre. The playwright and Esperantist Ujaku Akita wrote Gaikotsu no buchō (骸骨の舞跳) in 1924, decrying the culture of silence by Japanese; its first printing was banned by the Japanese censors. It was translated into Esperanto as Danco de skeletoj in 1927. The playwright Koreya Senda did not write about the violence explicitly, but adopted the pen name "Koreya" after he was mistaken for a Korean by the mob.
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With this as a starting point, medieval theatre makers began crafting other plays detailing the religious narratives of Christianity. Plays about saints, especially local saints, were particularly popular in England. These plays conformed to the goals of contemporary historians, often closely paralleling "Lives of the Saints" books. They are generally not included in the modern understanding of history plays, however, because they differ significantly from the modern understanding of history by unquestioningly including supernatural phenomena as key elements.
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De Gouges was a strict critic of the principle of equality touted in Revolutionary France because it gave no attention to who it left out, and she worked to claim the rightful place of women and slaves within its protection. By writing numerous plays about the topics of black and women's rights and suffrage, the issues she brought up were spread not only through France, but also throughout Europe and the newly created United States of America.
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Although traditional health care is available to some within this community, the Garífuna have also developed their own methods of educating their community and spreading knowledge of prevention: utilizing their traditional musical forms to accompany informational plays about HIV/AIDS. Organizations, such as the Pan American Social Marketing Organization (PASMO), have adopted similar education tactics, such as bingo games in which each space on a playing card contains a picture of HIV/AIDS or another STD.
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There is a huge body of historical fiction, where the text includes both imaginary and factual elements. In early English literature, Robin Hood was a fictional character, but the historical King Richard I of England also appears. William Shakespeare wrote plays about people who were historical figures in his day, such as Julius Caesar. He did not present these people as pure history, but dramatised their lives as a commentary about the people and politics of his own time.
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Pogodin next wrote "My Friend" in 1932 that was about the building of a large factory in a peasant country. In 1934 Pogodin wrote "Aristocrats" which was about the rehabilitation of criminals in a labor camp that were building the Belomorsky Canal. Pogodin's earliest works were produced during the First five-year economic plan for the Soviet Union. During the Great Purge, Pogodin released several plays about Lenin and the growth of the new Soviet government.
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Rae Dalven (25 April 1904, Preveza, Janina Vilayet, Ottoman Empire – 30 July 1992, New York City) was a Romaniote author living in the United States of America since 1909. She is best known for her translations of Cavafy's works and for her books and plays about the Jews of Ioannina. She was a professor of Modern Greek literature at New York University (NYU), where a prize is offered in her name by the A.S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies.
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Mary P. Burrill (August 1881 - March 13, 1946) was an early 20th-century African-American female playwright of the Harlem Renaissance, who inspired Willis Richardson and other students to write plays. Burrill herself wrote plays about the Black Experience, their literary and cultural activities, and the Black Elite. She featured the kind of central figures as were prominent in the black society of Washington D.C., and others who contributed to black women’s education in early twentieth century.
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The parable is included in medievalLynette R. Muir, The Biblical Drama of Medieval Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2003, , p. 119. and later mystery plays about Mary Magdalene, such as Lewis Wager's play of 1550–1566.Jane Milling, Peter Thomson, and Joseph W. Donohue, The Cambridge History of British Theatre: Origins to 1660, Cambridge University Press, 2004, , pp. 97-98.Darryll Grantley, English Dramatic Interludes, 1300-1580: A reference guide, Cambridge University Press, 2004, , pp. 192-194.
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Even though Terayama had collaborated with several people, Kishida was the only one in his troupe to have collaborated with him several times. It is not clear as to who wrote which parts of the plays. Kishida, with the permission from Terayama, founded her own company Because of My Older Brother Theater and wrote her own plays that were independent from Tenjō Sajiki in 1978. Kishida wanted to write plays about women and issues that they faced against as the main focus.
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Gee is primarily known as a stage actress in Toronto, Ontario, where her acting credits have included productions of Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad, Daniel MacIvor's Arigato, Tokyo, Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters Cliff Cardinal's Stitch, Birdtown and Swanville's 36 Little Plays About Hopeless Girls and Louise Dupré's Tout comme elle. She made her feature film debut in Empire of Dirt for which she was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award."People to watch: Cara Gee". Toronto Star, December 30, 2012.
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Sade's life and works have been the subject of numerous fictional plays, films, pornographic or erotic drawings, etchings, and more. These include Peter Weiss's play Marat/Sade, a fantasia extrapolating from the fact that Sade directed plays performed by his fellow inmates at the Charenton asylum.Dancyger, Ken, 2002, The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory, and Practice, Focal Press, . Yukio Mishima, Barry Yzereef, and Doug Wright also wrote plays about Sade; Weiss's and Wright's plays have been made into films.
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Chaplin was portrayed by Robert McClure in both productions. In 2013, two plays about Chaplin premiered in Finland: Chaplin at the Svenska Teatern, and Kulkuri (The Tramp) at the Tampere Workers' Theatre. Chaplin has also been characterised in literary fiction. He is the protagonist of Robert Coover's short story "Charlie in the House of Rue" (1980; reprinted in Coover's 1987 collection A Night at the Movies), and of Glen David Gold's Sunnyside (2009), a historical novel set in the First World War period.
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He is a Trustee for the Robey Theatre Company in Los Angeles, a non-profit theatre group founded by Danny Glover, focusing on plays about the Black experience. He supported President Barack Obama's candidacy and spoke at campaign rallies for Obama. Underwood got to know Obama while researching his L.A. Law role at Harvard Law School, while Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review. Underwood's DNA test showed that he is a descendant of the Babungo people of Cameroon.
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They have played such other major venues as Lincoln Center in New York City, and The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia. Nothin' Fancy plays about 140 shows a year and is a staple on the bluegrass festival circuit.Lincoln Journal Star "Members of Nothin' Fancy tell bluegrass listeners to expect something different" by L. Kent Wolgamott, September 28, 2007. The band has been known to take fans on bus trips to festivals and accompanying them on bluegrass cruises aboard the Royal Caribbean and Carnival cruises.
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All songs written by Thea Gilmore. #"Sugar" – 3:39 #"Get Out" – 3:17 #"People Like You" – 3:19 #"Pontiac to Home Girl" – 4:32 #"Not so Clever Now" – 3:41 #"Instead of the Saints" – 3:36 #"Militia Sister" – 3:18 #"Throwing In" – 3:44 #"Bad Idea" – 4:14 #"Into the Blue" – 12:02 "Into the Blue" plays about 3:57 minutes, but contains a hidden bonus track called "One Last Fight", starting after five minutes of silence at about 8:56 minutes.
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CPBL Minor League took shape in late 2003 as a result of cooperation with Chinese Taipei Baseball Association. Alternative service draftees, players deemed eligible to complete their national service obligation in the field of baseball, were sent to CPBL member organizations to fill their roster. There are currently four minor league teams, each plays about 80 games annually. Similar to the NPB's minor leagues, the minor league teams are each owned by CPBL member clubs as reserve teams rather than independent organizations.
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Crim, daughter of famed Detroit Broadcast Journalist Mort Crim, started at the Purple Rose as an actor. Most recently, she had her plays Morning After Grace and Never Not Once appear on the Purple Rose stage. Morning After Grace has since had runs at Royal Manitoba Theatre Company, Asolo Rep, and Shakespeare and Co. David MacGregor is another Michigan Playwright with over 6 productions at the Purple Rose. MacGregor is in the process of creating a trilogy of plays about Sherlock Holmes.
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It has been produced across North America and internationally, and has been translated into German, French, Japanese and Hindi. His other plays include The Road to Hell (co-authored with Kate Lynch), Plan B, Rune Arlidge, The Innocent Eye Test, The Nuttals, and Are You Okay. From 2008 to 2012 he created a trilogy of plays about Canadian values and politics, entitled Generous, Courageous and Proud. In all, his plays have won the Dora for best new play five times.
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This play, which gives evidence of Kenyan children participating in the festival, was written in the Masai language. Olkirkenyi marked the fact that Kenyan youth were beginning to use the play format, incorporating indigenous language to articulate social issues that directly affected their lives. After Olkirkenyi won the National Schools Drama Festival, teachers and interested scriptwriters wrote further plays about issues affecting Kenyans; politics was a common theme. Mwangi Gichora notes that in the 1970s, the festival became a hotbed of radical theatre.
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As soon as Stalling's music career started taking off, he quit his job with Frito-Lay and started pursuing music full-time. Stalling plays about 150 shows a year and is in the third year of a Budweiser sponsorship. He is a former member of the Board of Governors for the Texas Chapter of NARAS (The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, currently known as The Recording Academy). He has also received a star on the South Texas Music Walk of Fame in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Permission was sought from Coward with the help of the actor David Tomlinson. ITV News featured a lengthy excerpt in the evening news, and many national publications including The Guardian and the New Statesman sent critics.Martin, pp. 310–318. The first commercial presentation was a television version produced by Harry Moore for the BBC. It was first aired, on 17 September 1968, as the second episode of the BBC television series The Jazz Age, a fifteen-episode compilation of short plays about the Jazz Age.
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Hyperbolus was a frequent target of the authors of Old Comedy. The first to satirise him was supposedly Hermippus; Plato the comic poet and Eupolis wrote plays about him; and there are allusions to Hyperbolus in seven of Aristophanes' surviving plays, from Acharnians in 425 to The Frogs in 405 BC. By contrast, only a single "contemptuous" reference to Hyperbolus is found in Thucydides. In 416 or 415, Hyperbolus proposed an ostracism, and was himself ostracised. In 412/11 he was murdered on Samos.
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The first public performance of a stage play in Marathi was Sita Swayamvar (Marriage of Sita) by Vishnudas Bhave, based on a popular episode of the epic Ramayana. Staged in 1843 in Sangli, with ruler of the princely state of Sangli in audience, it was an experimental play, based on folk theatre form called Yakshagana from the neighbouring Karnataka region. After the success of his play, he staged many more plays about other episodes of Ramayana. His plays were largely influenced by the Shakespearean and Parsi theatres.
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Aeschylus was not the first to write a play about the Persians — his older contemporary Phrynichus wrote two plays about them. The first, The Sack of Miletus (written in 493 BCE, 21 years before Aeschylus' play), concerned the destruction of an Ionian colony of Athens in Asia Minor by the Persians. For his portrayal of this brutal defeat, which emphasized Athens' abandonment of its colony, Phrynichus was fined and a law passed forbidding subsequent performances of his play.See Herodotus 6.21.2 and Taxidou (2004, pp. 96–97).
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Advertisement for a Dardanella performance, 1929 Dardanella was a touring theatre company from the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia) established by Willy A. Piedro in 1926. Arising from a background of musical theatre, the troupe focused on realistic stories, both adaptations of foreign works and original stage plays about life in the Indies. Starring Dewi Dja' and Tan Tjeng Bok, the troupe performed original works by Piedro and Andjar Asmara. Popular both in the Indies and abroad, Dardanella dissolved during an international tour after 1936.
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The elder Leake published the first quartos of Anthony Munday's two plays about Robin Hood, The Downfall and The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington (both 1601). Leake published editions of John Lyly's Euphues the tenth edition (both parts) in 1605, the eleventh in 1607, the twelfth in 1607 (Part I) and 1609 (Part II), and the thirteenth in 1613. He issued Robert Southwell's Saint Peter's Complaint and Other Poems in 1595, and Thomas Greene's A Poet's Vision, and a Prince's Glory in 1603.
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Laurence Peacock is an English playwright and dramaturg based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. His Canary Girls, about the canary girls (munitions workers) of World War I, was one of Mikron Theatre Company's two touring productions in 2016, and his In At The Deep End, about the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, is one of their two productions in 2017. In 2013 he contributed A Romance to Sheffield in Many Voices to the Crucible Theatre's Twenty Tiny Plays about Sheffield. Peacock is a member of Sheffield Creative Guild.
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José Enrique Rodó José Enrique Rodó (1871–1917), a modernist, is considered Uruguay's most significant literary figure. His book Ariel (1900) deals with the need to maintain spiritual values while pursuing material and technical progress. Besides stressing the importance of upholding spiritual over materialistic values, it also stresses resisting cultural dominance by Europe and the United States. The book continues to influence young writers. Notable amongst Latin American playwrights is Florencio Sánchez (1875–1910), who wrote plays about contemporary social problems that are still performed today.
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Baltzar's exhibition "Miranda - The Roma Holocaust" in Tallinn, Estonia, 11 May 2017 Veijo Baltzar has written several plays, most of them focusing on Roma, but there are also plays about myths, religion and war. He was the founder of the first and only Roma theatre in Nordic countries, Drom Theatre in 1976. At the beginning of the 1980s, Baltzar worked as a leading teacher in the Theatre Academy of Finland. Baltzar wrote and directed tens of tragedies, poetic plays and musicals to the group.
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Walther Heissig, Mongolische Literatur, in Michael Weiers (editor), Die Mongolen, Beiträge zu ihrer Geschichte und Kultur, Darmstadt 1986, p. 70-85 Beginning with the works of Tseveen Jamsrano and other Buryats in the 1910s, many important works of Russian and European literature, or at least those that were not politically incorrect, were translated into Mongolian in the 20th century. Religious theatre plays about the Tibetan hermit Milarepa were already performed in the 18th and 19th centuries. The oldest Mongolian drama known today, "Moon cuckoo" (Saran khökhöö) was created by Danzanravjaa around 1831.
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The series began on 15 June 1983. Each of the episodes was based on a medieval theme — the Wars of the Roses, the Crusades and Royal succession, the conflict between the Crown and the Church, arranged marriages between monarchies, and the Plague and witchcraft. The final episode follows a planned coup d'état. The series was broadcast shortly after the BBC Television Shakespeare productions of Shakespeare's four plays about the Wars of the Roses, the three-part Henry VI plays, followed by Richard III, which was first shown on 23 January 1983.
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The Nibroc Trilogy, a set of three plays about the challenges of a young couple living in Kentucky and Florida in the 1940s and early 1950s, is the best-known work of the American playwright Arlene Hutton. The individual plays were first produced between 1999 and 2006. Both the individual works and the trilogy as a whole have received critical acclaim, and the first part of the series, the two-character work Last Train to Nibroc, has so far received about 100 productions and is Hutton's most frequently-produced play.
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He is an organizer of the Creative Mathematical Sciences Communication (CMSC) conference series. An avid interest in politics was inspired by his mother Betty, long a leader in the California League of Women Voters, and a love of literature and movies is shared with his son, Max. Fellows wrote a series of passion plays about mathematics which were presented at the Victoria Fringe Festival and at NCTM at Asilimar in 1999. In 1999, he married Frances Novak Rosamond, also a scientist, who shares his love of mathematics and adventure.
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In this poem, the animals that surround her are not former lovers transformed but primeval 'beasts, not resembling the beasts of the wild, nor yet like men in body, but with a medley of limbs'. Three ancient plays about Circe have been lost: the work of the tragedian Aeschylus and of the 4th-century BCE comic dramatists Ephippus of Athens and Anaxilas. The first told the story of Odysseus' encounter with Circe. Vase paintings from the period suggest that Odysseus' half-transformed animal-men formed the chorus in place of the usual Satyrs.
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Currently, Sergei Stadler is the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, the Artistic Director of the «Petersburg-Concert» concert organization. The Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra was created because of the initiative of Sergei Stadler in 2013. To present it is one of the best orchestras in Saint Petersburg, which plays about 500 concerts in Russia and abroad. The orchestra regularly performs at the Saint Petersburg and Moscow Philharmonic, the Hermitage and Alexandrinsky Theater, the State Academic Chapel of St. Petersburg, and the Large and Small Halls of the Moscow Conservatory.
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Australian bushranger Ned Kelly had been executed only twenty-six years before The Story of the Kelly Gang was made, and Ned's mother Ellen and younger brother Jim were still alive at the time of its release. The film was made during an era when plays about bushrangers were extremely popular, and there were, by one estimate, six contemporaneous theatre companies giving performances of the Kelly gang story. Historian Ian Jones suggests bushranger stories still had an "indefinable appeal" for Australians in the early 20th century.Ian Jones (1995) Ned Kelly; A short life.
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Tarrant, Ancient Receptions of Horace, 280) Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses (Satires and Epistles) and caustic iambic poetry (Epodes). The hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist Persius to comment: "as his friend laughs, Horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let in, he plays about the heartstrings".Translated from Persius' own 'Satires' 1.116–17: "omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico / tangit et admissus circum praecordia ludit." His career coincided with Rome's momentous change from a republic to an empire.
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Hilton was born in Bolton, Lancashire, and educated at Bolton School. He read English at Churchill College, Cambridge, studying under George Steiner and Michael Long. He worked as a student actor for Jonathan Miller (in the Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company's Hamlet and Julius Caesar) and via that connection entered the professional theatre as a trainee director at Bernard Miles' Mermaid Theatre in London. There he worked from 1971 to 1975, much of his time directing and writing plays about science for the theatre's educational wing, the Molecule Theatre.
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First page of The first Part of Henry the Sixt from the First Folio (1623) In 1590 William Shakespeare wrote a trilogy of plays about the life of Henry VI: Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, and Henry VI, Part 3. His dead body and his ghost also appear in Richard III. Shakespeare's portrayal of Henry is notable in that it does not mention the King's madness. This is considered to have been a politically-advisable move so as to not risk offending Elizabeth I whose family was descended from Henry's Lancastrian family.
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Cover of the 1594 quarto of The True Tragedy of Richard III, which was "printed by Thomas Creede and ... to be sold by William Barley, at his shop in Newgate Market". The foremost work of literature featuring Richard III is William Shakespeare's Richard III, which is believed to have been written in 1591, a century after the King's death. It was the final part of a tetralogy of plays about the Wars of the Roses. Richard also appears in the two plays preceding it, Henry VI, Part 2 and Henry VI, Part 3.
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Born Noel Mathura in Port of Spain, Trinidad, he changed his name when he became a writer, and explained: "I liked the sound of it.... It was the sixties."Biography, Mustapha Matura website. Leaving the Caribbean, he travelled to England by ship in 1962, and after a year working as a hospital porter he and fellow Trinidadian Horace Ové went to Rome, where he worked on stage productions such as Langston Hughes' Shakespeare in Harlem. Matura thereafter decided to write plays about the West Indian experience in London.
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Historian Jennifer Guglielmo writes, "Some of the women in this movement used the word femminismo to describe their work, but most preferred emancipazione, because it distinguished their activism from bourgeois feminisms and captured the all-encompassing nature of the freedoms they desired." The group gave lectures, wrote for the anarchist press, and published pamphlets. They also formed the Club Femminile de Musica e di Canto (Women's Music and Song Club) and the Teatro Sociale (Social Theater). Baronio was active in the Teatro, which performed plays about the emancipation of women.
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After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, so many plays and other works were written about Widukind that there were complaints that he was becoming a cliché. Alfred Rosenberg praised him as a hero of German freedom, who finally joined with the founder of the German Reich (Charlemagne). Two important plays about the Saxon leader were produced in 1934, Der Sieger ("The Victor") by Friedrich Forster and Wittekind by Edmund Kiss. The first celebrated the conversion of Widukind, but the second caused controversy because of its explicit anti- Christian message.
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Christopher Oscar Peña composes many of his plays with Asian characters because of his experience growing up around Vietnamese people in the Bay Area. To him, "Asian-Americans are a part of [his] cultural identity" and therefore should be a part of his work. He doesn't believe that Latinx playwrights should be forced to write plays about "immigration, drug cartels, and the working class" because not every Latinx individual shares those experiences. He's, thus, faced questions about what makes a play "Latinx" and has had a hard time at some theatre putting on his plays.
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Her poetry and short stories were published in journals and anthologies, and—like her plays—performed at a variety of venues across Canada and the US. Her play, Strength of Indian Women was staged throughout North America and published in the book, Two Plays about Residential Schools (along with Larry Loyie). Described by one critic as "beautiful in dramatic terms alone" the play has been staged as part of decolonization healing events across Canada. Her work was honoured with inclusion at the Native American Women Playwrights Program, housed at Miaml University, in Oxford, Ohio.
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When Lady Gregory read the manuscript she advised Synge to remove any direct naming of places and to add more folk stories, but he refused to do either because he wanted to create something more realistic.Smith 1996, xvi The book expresses Synge's belief that beneath the Catholicism of the islanders it was possible to detect a substratum of the pagan beliefs of their ancestors. His experiences in the Aran Islands were to form the basis for the plays about Irish rural life that Synge went on to write.Greene and Stephens 1959, pp.
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The Kelly Gang; or the Career of the Outlaw, Ned Kelly, the Ironclad Bushranger of Australia, is an 1899 Australian play about bushranger Ned Kelly. It is attributed to Arnold Denham but it is likely a number of other writers worked on it.The Kelly Gang at AustLit Contemporary reviews remarked on the similarities the play had with Robbery Under Arms. Denham sued for copyright infringement against the producers of other plays about Ned Kelly including Outlaw Kelly in 1899 and The Kelly Gang in 1901 (the latter was appealed unsuccessfully).
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In 2008 Mr. Brock accepted the Governor's Arts Award on behalf of KRT. While Mr. Brock was Artistic Director, KRT received many accolades, among them being named ‘one of the Top Ten small regional theatres in the nation’ by USA Today. The Theatre's Educational Outreach Program was written up in the Cincinnati Enquirer, The Indianapolis Star, The Evansville Courier, and The Dallas Morning News. While Mr. Brock was Director, KRT was commissioned by the Kentucky Humanities Council and the Kentucky Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission to produce two plays about Lincoln ( Abraham Lincoln and One Man's Lincoln) during the bicentennial years 2008-2009.
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The production ran at London's Garrick Theatre from 19 October 2010 to 26 February 2011 and also starred Maureen Lipman and Sam Kelly. In February and March 2012 he appeared in The Bomb, a series of short plays about nuclear weapons at the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn. In 2013, he appeared in Coronation Street as Lewis Archer's old friend Patrick Woodson, and as journalist Len Danvers in Broadchurch. The same year Rouse toured the UK in a stage production of Simon Beaufoy's 1997 comedy-drama film The Full Monty, in which he plays the role of Gerald.
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The first Soviet prose writer Agahan Durdyýew (b. 1904), in his works "In the Sea of Dreams", "Wave of Shock Workers", "Meret", "Gurban", "Beauty in the Claws of the Golden Eagle", wrote about the construction in the Garagum desert, about the problems facing the liberation of the women of the East, etc. The romance of socialist construction was also reflected in the works of other Turkmen writers: these are Durdy Agamämmedow (b. 1904) and his poems and plays about "The collective farm life of Sona", the collective farm system, "the Son of October"; Beki Seýtäkow (b.
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In Moscow, in 1918 this was to be the first play ever performed by the Habima Theater, now the national theater of Israel. He revisited a similar theme in 1919 in Der Shtumer Meshiekh (The Mute Messiah); he would revisit messianic themes in further plays about Simon Bar-Kokhba, Shlomo Molcho, and Sabbatai Zevi. His work took a new turn with the highly allegorical Di Bergshtayger (The Mountain Climbers, 1912); the "mountain" in question is life itself. During the period between the World Wars, he wrote numerous plays, mostly on biblical subjects, but continuing to engage with many of his earlier themes.
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There have to be seven characters as seven was thought to be a magic number. They include Old Father Christmas (the presenter of the play), King William who slays Little Man John who is resurrected by Dr Finnix (Phoenix, a rebirth theme). There's also Tenpenny Nit, Beelzebub who carries a club and a money pan and Saucy Jack who talks about some of his children dying—there are many references in mummers' plays about social hardship. The Paper Boys have to belong to families that have lived in Marshfield for generations and they must have the Marshfield accent.
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Aynesworth circa 1890 Edward Henry Abbot-Anderson (14 April 1864, Sandhurst, Berkshire - 22 August 1959, Camberley, Surrey), known professionally as Allan Aynesworth, was an English actor and producer. His career spanned more than six decades, from 1887 to 1949, and included the role of Algernon Moncrieff in the 1895 premiere of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Aynesworth generally appeared in drawing room comedy and contemporary high-society dramas, usually avoiding old classics and modern plays about social problems. He retired from the stage in 1938, and made his final acting appearance in the film The Last Days of Dolwyn in 1949.
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She translates plays from Spanish to English, to make different works accessible to different communities and has written many plays about Latino experiences, while making it accessible to larger audiences. García-Romero received her B.A. at Occidental College and then went on to the Yale School of Drama, where she received her Masters in Fine Arts majoring in playwriting. She completed her Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara, where she majored in Theater Studies. García-Romero is also an alumna of New Dramatists in New York City, which is an organization that specifically supports and provides resources to talented playwrights.
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In 2003, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" was depicted in a mechanical holiday window display at the Lord & Taylor department store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Virginia continues to inspire generations of young students at The Studio School, a New York City private school located in the building where Virginia grew up and penned her letter. The curiosity in Virginia's letter, and her dedication to education later in life, have rendered her a guiding figure in school lore. Students read and discuss her letter annually, and have written and performed plays about the young girl's life.
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Vera Manuel (March 20, 1948– January 22, 2010) was a Secwepemc-Ktunaxa playwright, poet, writer, healer and educator. She was the daughter of cultural leader Marceline Paul and political leader George Manuel, Sr. Manuel grew up on the Neskonlith reserve in the interior of British Columbia, and lived for many years in Vancouver, Canada, where she died in January 2010, aged 61. She worked in diverse communities across North America. She wrote and produced numerous Native American drama plays about cultural oppression and genocide,as an independent artist and through Storytellers Theatre, including The Strength of Indian Women and Every Warrior's Song.
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In the years immediately before World War I, for instance, Broadway saw a vogue for plays about white slavery, sexually-transmitted disease, and brothels. Most of the writers were male, of course, and a borderline-legal but titillating Act I brothel or abduction scene was part of the pattern of these usually formulaic plays. Crothers' approach in Ourselves (1913) was different. She began work on the play in 1912 before the vogue was underway, visited the Bedford Street Reformatory for Women to talk to some imprisoned sex workers, and elected to adopt an entirely female-centered perspective.
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After her marriage, Naik, started writing radio plays about the trials and tribulations of middle class life for the local Akashavani station. Encouraged by the popularity she started writing and contributing poems, short stories and articles for prominent Kannada periodicals such as Sudha, Prajavani and Taranga. When her novella, Nele Bele, won an award in the annual novella competition conducted by Sudha magazine, she was invited by the writer P. Lankesh to contribute to his newly started tabloid Lankesh Patrike. Naik started writing regularly for the tabloid and was soon recognized for her sensitivity, social commitment and progressive views.
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Based on the "theater of the mind" concept of pre-television era radio drama, Fountain's productions attempted to recapture the atmosphere of broadcast favorites of yesteryear such as The Shadow, Inner Sanctum, and Lights Out. Fountain's simple, derivative plotlines often employ Halloween kitsch—spooks, witches, haunted houses—as vehicles in morality plays about redemption for the honorable and damnation for evildoers. He also appropriates elements of crime drama, featuring detectives, thieves, gunplay, and innocent victims. Characters who embody virtue are invariably rewarded, while those of criminal bent (or those who simply misbehaved) are punished, often with ghoulish glee.
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The reserve is also home to the Wiikwemkoong Cultural Festival (Wiikwemkoong Pow-Wow) which is held annually every Civic Holiday weekend (first weekend in August). This annual event is touted as the largest and oldest pow-wow in Eastern Canada. Considered to be one of the major pow wows in North America, it is attended by many aboriginal dancers who participate in competition of all age ranges, demonstrating traditional, grass, jingle and fancy dancing. Wiikwemkoong is also home to a professional theatre company, De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group, which stages and produces plays about First Nations life and culture, within the missions ruins next to Holy Cross Church.
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In 1985, Hoffman achieved critical acclaim and public recognition when the Broadway production of his play, As Is, one of the first plays about AIDS, opened at the Lyceum Theatre in New York, where it ran for 285 performances. He won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play (1985) and an Obie Award for playwriting (1984–85), and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play (1985). The following year, he adapted As Is for a television production directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. In 1991, Hoffman was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera to write the libretto for The Ghosts of Versailles, first produced in celebration of the opera company's centennial.
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Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, from the Spree river East German theatre was strongly dominated in its early years by Bertolt Brecht, who brought back a lot of artists from the antifascist resistance and reopened Theater am Schiffbauerdamm with his Berliner Ensemble. On the other side some streams tried to establish "Pure Workers Theatre", played by workers and performing plays about workers. After Brecht died, there was a lot of conflict between the artists and the family (around Helene Weigel) about the Brecht heritage. Heinz Kahlau, Slatan Dudow, Erwin Geschonneck, Erwin Strittmatter, Peter Hacks, Benno Besson, Peter Palitzsch and Ekkehard Schall are counted among Brecht's scholars and followers.
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More recently, an adaptation of The Return of the Soldier for the stage by Kelly Younger titled Once a Marine took West's theme of shell-shock-induced amnesia and applied it to a soldier returning from the war in Iraq with PTSD. There have been two plays about Rebecca West produced since 2004. That Woman: Rebecca West Remembers, by Carl Rollyson, Helen Macleod, and Anne Bobby, is a one-woman monologue in which an actress playing Rebecca West recounts her life through some of her most famous articles, letters, and books. Tosca's Kiss, a 2006 play by Kenneth Jupp, retells West's experience covering the Nuremberg trials for The New Yorker.
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The comedy was first performed in 1808 at The Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. It has been cited as the first play about American Indians by an American playwright known to be produced on a professional stage, and possibly the first play produced in America to be then performed in England, although the validity of both statements has been questioned. Its portrayal of Native Americans has been criticized as racially insensitive, but the piece is credited with inspiring a whole new genre of plays about Pocahontas specifically and Native Americans in general, that was prevalent throughout the 19th and early 20th Century. The play was subsequently produced throughout the country.
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She has written and performed many plays about the local native animals and the environmental problems and damage to native animals by cats, foxes and rabbits. In 1994 Kaye was approached by The Rabbit Free Australia Foundation to write and illustrate a book replacing the feral Easter Rabbit with an Australian native animal, to create awareness about the damage rabbits do to the Australian environments. Kaye co-wrote and illustrated the Easter Bilby picture book with Ali Garnett, which grew into a series of bilby picture books, including the sequel the Easter Bilby's Secret picture book. Most recently Kessing has published The Bilby's Ring Trilogy launched in Alice Springs in 2015.
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The Musical!), in addition to work from a more traditional canon of Ibsen, Miller, Fo, Brecht, and Mamet. Between 2008-2010, the company featured a series of plays about real people called Biograph that included Life of Galileo, The Elephant Man, and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. The series concluded in 2010 with productions of The Laramie Project and Breaking the Code, though historical/biographical work (such as Inherit the Wind and The Normal Heart) have continued to be featured. Likewise, Strawshop has championed gay drama (Laramie, Code, Normal, as well as Prelude to a Kiss and Take Me Out) without adopting that genre as its exclusive mission.
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He had completed short plays about Martin Luther, Plato, Moses, Jesus Christ, and Socrates. He wrote another historical drama in 1908 after the Royal Theatre convinced him to put on a new play for its sixtieth birthday. He wrote The Last of the Knights (1908), Earl Birger of Bjalbo (1909), and The Regents (1909). A portrait of August Strindberg by Richard Bergh (1905). His other works, such as Days of Loneliness (1903), The Roofing Ceremony (1907), and The Scapegoat (1907), and the novels The Gothic Rooms (1904) and Black Banners Genre Scenes from the Turn of the Century, (1907) have been viewed as precursors to Marcel Proust and Franz Kafka.
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Like Marat/Sade it attracted wide international attention and became the focus of heated debates about the 'right' way of representing Auschwitz and about who gets to decide what is acceptable and what is not.See Robert, Cohen: "The Political Aesthetics of Holocaust Literature: Peter Weiss's 'The Investigation' and its Critics." History & Memory vol. 10. 2/1998). 43–67. This was followed by two experimental plays about the struggle for self-determination in the 'Third World': Gesang vom lusitanischen Popanz (Song of the Lusitanian Bogey [a better translation would be Canto of the Lusitanian Bogey] 1967) about Angola, and Viet Nam Diskurs (Viet Nam Discourse, 1968).
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The Greek tragedian Aeschylus wrote a trilogy of plays about Achilles, given the title Achilleis by modern scholars. The tragedies relate the deeds of Achilles during the Trojan War, including his defeat of Hector and eventual death when an arrow shot by Paris and guided by Apollo punctures his heel. Extant fragments of the Achilleis and other Aeschylean fragments have been assembled to produce a workable modern play. The first part of the Achilleis trilogy, The Myrmidons, focused on the relationship between Achilles and chorus, who represent the Achaean army and try to convince Achilles to give up his quarrel with Agamemnon; only a few lines survive today.
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Evidence of Wright's love for the written word surfaced at the Star of the Sea Elementary School in Honolulu, where he crafted and performed plays about vampires, pro wrestlers, and secret agents. Kirby Wright won first place in a recital competition for his reading of "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer and also won awards for his original poems. Kirby was transferred to the Punahou School in the 7th Grade and won the short story competition. Despite winning this competition, Wright felt like an outsider at Punahou School and his experiences at this private institution became fertile material for his coming of age novel Punahou Blues.
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), German dramatist and philosopher, trusted in a "Christianity of Reason", in which human reason (initiated by criticism and dissent) would develop, even without help by divine revelation. His plays about Jewish characters and themes, such as "Die Juden" and "Nathan der Weise", "have usually been considered impressive pleas for social and religious toleration". The latter work contains the famous parable of the three rings, in which three sons represent the three Abrahamic religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Each son believes he has the one true ring passed down by their father, but judgment on which is correct is reserved to God.
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Red Production Company was formed in 1998 by Nicola Shindler, a television producer who had worked on Our Friends in the North and Cracker. Based at MediaCityUK in Manchester in the north of England, Red's first production was the controversial drama Queer as Folk, written by Russell T Davies and based on the lives of three gay men in the city. This was screened on Channel 4 in early 1999 and drew much comment and praise. The same year, Red followed this up with another series for Channel 4, an anthology of six half-hour plays about love entitled Love in the 21st Century.
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This song is performed by children in American elementary school plays about the First Thanksgiving to typify Native American lifestyle only using the first verses. In the 2019 Brotherhood , directed by Richard Bell—based on a true story of tragic canoeing accident in an Ontario, Canada lake at a boys summer camp, that took eleven lives—the boys hearty rendition of Land of the Silver Birch as the canoe trip began, is replayed throughout the film in subdued tones, reflecting the survivors' struggle to stay alive in the dark, frigid waters. In 1926, ten boys and a camp counsellor died, when their 30-foot war canoe capsized.
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A sketch of Greenwich Palace, published in The Gentleman's Magazine in 1840 (earlier published by W. Bristow in 1797) Humphrey was regent during the minority of Henry VI (his nephew) and started building the palace in 1433, under the name Bella Court. In 1447, Humphrey fell out of favour with Henry VI and was arrested for high treason. He died in prison, likely due to a stroke, though it was popularly believed that he was murdered (as is depicted in William Shakespeare's plays about Henry VI). Margaret of Anjou took over Bella Court, renaming it the Palace of Placentia, sometimes written as the 'Palace of Pleasaunce'.
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She was possessed of a talent for crochet, as well, and produced books on crafts for an adult audience. In the 1930s she led other women of Rodef Shalom in the task of developing programs aimed at the blind; this included creating services using Braille prayer books, a program which would serve as a model for others throughout the United States. She also wrote short plays about Jewish holidays designed to be performed in the synagogue. She served with the United Jewish Federation and with a variety of other charities, and was at one time on the national board of the Federation of Temple Sisterhoods.
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The Home Place (2005), focusing on the aging Christopher Gore and the last of Friel's plays set in Ballybeg, was also his final full-scale work. Although Friel had written plays about the Catholic gentry, this is his first play directly considering the Protestant experience. In this work, he considers the first hints of the waning of Ascendancy authority during the summer of 1878, the year before Charles Stuart Parnell became president of the Land League and initiated the Land Wars. After a sold-out season at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, it transferred to London's West End on 25 May 2005, making its American premiere at the Guthrie Theater in September 2007.
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Prostitutes in Cuba did not work in oppressive conditions, alcohol and drug addiction were not routes into prostitution, and people were not sold into prostitution by their families. Julia O'Connell Davidson noted in her 1996 article "Sex Tourism in Cuba" that, "In Cuba there is no network of brothels, no organised system of bar prostitution: in fact third party involvement in the organisation of prostitution is rare". Women's fiction increasingly included the subject of prostitution, and Cuban theatres began to stage foreign plays about prostitution. Prostitution also began to be presented in Cuban films, acting as a metaphor for the downfall of the socialist system and for the island being sold out to foreign tourists and investors.
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After his retirement from active teaching in 1990, Poole became the archivist for the Western Province of his Congregation. In addition to that, though, he was able to work on an interest he had long felt on the history of the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe. For this he undertook the study of Classical Nahuatl, and published several works in that field. Poole's writings regarding Our Lady of Guadalupe include the books Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797, an English translation of Luis Laso de la Vega's Nahuatl account of the apparition, Huei tlamahuiçoltica, and a translation and critical edition of two Nahuatl plays about the Virgin.
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Writers often associated with England or for expressing Englishness include Shakespeare (who produced two tetralogies of history plays about the English kings), Jane Austen, Arnold Bennett, and Rupert Brooke (whose poem "Grantchester" is often considered quintessentially English). Other writers are associated with specific regions of England; these include Charles Dickens (London), Thomas Hardy (Wessex), A. E. Housman (Shropshire), and the Lake Poets (the Lake District). In a lighter vein, Agatha Christie's mystery novels are outsold only by Shakespeare and The Bible. Described as "perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture", the non- fiction works of George Orwell include The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England.
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He stepped into the historical playwright with Mariano Moreno, a play that won the First National Prize of Literature 1957. He went on to write other historical plays about the personalities of José de San Martín and Juan Martín de Pueyrredón in The Unknown (El desconocido), Bernardino Rivadavia in Bernardino, Esteban Echeverría in The Tomorrow (El mañana) and Lucio V. Mansilla in A Man at the Mirror (Un hombre ante el espejo). However, it is Childhood in Catamarca (Niñez en Catamarca) his most known and piece of work, which is an autobiographic tale that has been adopted by many Argentine schools as a lecture book. Gustavo G. Levene died in Buenos Aires, in 1987.
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At a loss to know how to proceed and with his career seemingly shattered, his circle of literary supporters dead, Purdy began looking or rather staring at pictures of his long dead relatives for a kind of solace and validation. He began to remember ever more vividly the stories his Indian grandmother told him when he was a child. About eminent people, mostly women, and most often on the outside of a hidebound code of acceptance in the long ago towns of the hill country of Ohio. In 1968, he began a series of independent but interconnected books (and plays) about the very real, regal and exciting personages his grandmother had bestowed upon, the Sleepers in Moon Crowned Valleys.
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Tony Van Bridge was interim artistic director for the 1974–75 season. In 1980, Christopher Newton joined the company as Artistic Director and continued to foster its development with the addition of a third theatre, the Royal George. Outstanding directors such as Derek Goldby, Denise Coffey, and Neil Munro (who became Resident Director in the early 1990s) were hired, and the acting ensemble was carefully developed until it was widely recognized to be one of the best in the world. Under Christopher Newton, the Festival's mandate became more narrowly defined: to produce plays written during the lifetime of Shaw (1856–1950), "plays about the beginning of the modern world," as Newton was quoted.
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In 1578, William Fleetwood, "Sergeant-in-law" and Recorder of London, described it as a place where foreign ambassadors met their spies and agents; at night it was so dark and obscured by trees that a man needed "cat's eyes" to see.Calendar of States Papers Domestic, 1547-80; p. 595. Ambassadors and travellers were often shown the Beargarden; The prominent French nobleman the Duke of BironGeorge Chapman wrote plays about him: The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron. was escorted there by Sir Walter Raleigh on September 7, 1601. On Sunday, January 13, 1583, eight people were killed and others injured when the scaffold seating in the Beargarden collapsed under their weight.
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Dumézil thus conceives of Víðarr as a spatial god. Dumézil substantiates his claim with the text of the Lokasenna, in which Víðarr, trying to mediate the dispute with Loki, urges the other Aesir to "grant Loki his space" at the feasting table. Dumézil argues that this play on Víðarr's spatiality would have been understood by an audience familiar with the god, an interpretation further warranted by his reading of the Lokasenna as being in significant part a book of puns and word plays about the different Aesir. Dumézil also suggests that Víðarr's spatiality is seen in the Vishnu of the Vedic traditions, both etymologically (the Vi- root) and mythologically, citing the story of Bali and Vishnu.
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Most of the plays written are fictitious, but are based on the stories told by the community members who are engaged by Cornerstone. Once a play is written, playwrights like Garcés will go back into the communities and do readings of the piece to hear feedback from community members. Garcés claims that Cornerstone is a theater that produces plays "about communities that are trying to define themselves" which is why community engagement is so necessary for the theater. Cornerstone is also a space that produces multiethnic pieces of theater, which allows Garcés to discuss issues relevant to the Latino population like Latino immigration and the status of undocumented immigrants in the United States.
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The play appears to have caused a furore on its first night, because some in the audience felt that it disrespected the French poilu. This view subsided once audiences understood the play, though Henry de Montherlant was scathing about it. In Britain it was however only moderately successful (though George Bernard Shaw said that "it was almost worth having war to have so fine a play"), and it failed on Broadway. Le Tombeau sous l’Arc de Triomphe was the first of a trilogy of plays about the First World War, the others being La Francerie (1933, about the Battle of the Marne) and Le Matériel humain (published in 1946, though written in 1935, and set on the Salonika Front).
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As Bo begins to change the subject, a pre- recorded song interrupts him, calling him a "faggot", and continuing to call him a "fucking faggot" until he demands that the track be stopped. Burnham segues into a discussion of hip hop music, and delivers a hip-hop version of "I'm a Little Teapot" to illustrate his point. Following a series of subversive jokes based around misdirection, Burnham claims he will improvise a song about a member of the audience, and asks an audience member for his name—Rob. A pre-recorded track plays about Bo having sex with someone's mother, and he inserts the name "Rob" into the gaps in the track.
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129 Hawtrey's alcohol consumption had noticeably increased since Carry On Cowboy (1965), which was released the year his mother died. Without steady film work, Hawtrey performed in pantomime and summer seasons in the regions, playing heavily on his "Carry On" persona in such shows as Carry On Holiday Show-time and Snow White at the Gaiety Theatre, Rhyl in Wales (summer 1970), Stop it Nurse at the Pavilion Theatre, Torquay (1972) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs again at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham (April 1974). His last pantomime season was Christmas 1979. Hawtrey also played parts in a series of radio plays about a criminal gang written by Wally K. Daly for the BBC, alongside Peter Jones, Lockwood West and Bernard Bresslaw.
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The Death of the Irish language: A qualified obituary London: Routledge pg.24 Leading supporters of Conradh included Pádraig Pearse and Éamon de Valera. The revival of interest in the language coincided with other cultural revivals, such as the foundation of the Gaelic Athletic Association and the growth in the performance of plays about Ireland in English, by such luminaries as W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Seán O'Casey and Lady Gregory, with their launch of the Abbey Theatre. By 1901 only approximately 641,000 people spoke Irish with only just 20,953 of those speakers being monolingual Irish speakers; how many had emigrated is unknown, but it is probably safe to say that a larger number of speakers lived elsewhere Hindley, Reg. 1990.
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A flyer/programme, designed by Philip Reeve, for Moonlight over India at the Nightingale Theatre, Brighton, 1994 In 1994, Mitchell and Nixon gave up sketch comedy to write a dramatic trilogy: Three Short Plays about Shops and Love. The first was Moonlight over India, a romantic comedy, in the style of Guys and Dolls, set in a 1950s New York drug store. The store is run by Harry, an artist at the soda fountain, whose greatest creation, which he calls 'Moonlight over India' is a 'Triple Chocolate – white, milk AND plain – Double Fudge, Chopped Walnut, Four Scoop Sundae.' The central character, Ed the Bean, is a chocoholic whose girlfriend, Myrtle, thinks it's childish for a man to be interested in candy.
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Leave this House!".Behr, 1987 p 310 Sometimes Puyi acted in plays about his life and Manchukuo, and in one theatrical production, playing a Manchukuo functionary, Puyi kowtowed to a portrait of himself as Emperor of Manchukuo. During the Great Leap Forward, when millions of people starved to death in China, Jin chose to cancel Puyi's visits to the countryside lest the scenes of famine undo his growing faith in communism.Behr, 1987 p 309 Behr wrote that many are surprised that Puyi's "remodeling" worked, with an Emperor brought up as almost a god becoming content to be just an ordinary man, but he noted that "... it is essential to remember that Puyi was not alone in undergoing such successful 'remolding'.
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Bode Sowande (born 2 May 1948) is a Nigerian writer and dramatist, known for the theatric aesthetic of his plays about humanism and social change. He comes from a breed of writers in Nigeria that favors a post-traditional social and political landscape where the individual is the creator and maker of his own history not just the subject of norms and tradition. Sowande is a member of the so-called second generation of Nigerian playwrights, who favor a much more political tone in their writing and seek to promote an alliance or acquiescence to a change in the status quo and fate of the common man and farmers who constitute the majority of the Nigerian society.Osita Okagbue, African Writers Vol.
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Niagara-On-the-Lake beach, June 2014 The town is home to the Shaw Festival, Canada's second largest producing theatre and a repertory company featuring the works of George Bernard Shaw, his contemporaries, or plays about his era (1856–1950), running from April to December. The festival operates Four theatres in the centre of town: the Festival, The Jackie Maxwell Studio, The Royal George, and the Court House theatre. The Festival produces over 750 performances annually featuring its lauded repertory ensemble and employs over 520 artist, artisans and artsworkers locally Along the Niagara Parkway is RiverBrink Art Museum in Queenston. It is home to a collection of over 1,400 artworks and artefacts by Canadian and international artists, assembled by Samuel E. Weir.
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In 2014, American feminist playwright Carolyn Gage paid tribute to Henrietta Vinton Davis, along with actresses and directors Eva Le Gallienne and Minnie Maddern Fiske, when she was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award given by Venus Theatre, founded by Deborah Randall in Laurel, Maryland. In her acceptance speech, Gage said about Davis: > She was well aware that the classical canon was by and about white people > and she embraced the work of contemporary Black playwrights attempting to > write new epic plays. She produced and performed in plays about the > successful slave rebellion in Haiti, and she co-wrote a musical called My > Old Kentucky Home. Unlike other plantation shows, Henrietta’s play included > the war, and the entire second act portrayed formerly enslaved people taking > over the plantation of their former captors.
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The citizen's "apprentice" then acts, pretending to extemporise, in the rest of the play. This is a satirical tilt at Beaumont's playwright contemporaries and their current fashion for offering plays about London life. The opera Pagliacci is about a troupe of actors who perform a play about marital infidelity that mirrors their own lives, and composer Richard Rodney Bennett and playwright-librettist Beverley Cross's The Mines of Sulphur features a ghostly troupe of actors who perform a play about murder that similarly mirrors the lives of their hosts, from whom they depart, leaving them with the plague as nemesis. John Adams' Nixon in China (1985-7) features a surreal version of Madam Mao's Red Detachment of Women, illuminating the ascendance of human values over the disillusionment of high politics in the meeting.
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Pirandello and Molière; the actor-director Jean-Louis Barrault and his wife, Madeleine Renaud, who created the Compagnie Renaud-Barrault in 1947 and the Théâtre d'Orsay in 1974, produced French classics as well as innovative new works. The leading playwrights of the period were Eugène Ionesco, born in Romania, who revolutionized Paris theater with his 1950 play The Bald Soprano (1950); Samuel Beckett, born in Ireland, who combined irony and burlesque in Waiting for Godot (1953); and Jean Genet, who had spent time in prison, who wrote provocative plays about sex, crime and prejudice. Other popular Paris playwrights included Jean Anouilh and Armand Salacrou. Marcel Marceau achieved worldwide fame by reinventing the art of pantomime beginning at clubs in the Latin Quarter in 1947, then in major theaters; he founded a school of mime in Paris in 1958.
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Ghetto () is a play by Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol about the experiences of the Jews of the Vilna Ghetto during Nazi occupation in World War II. The play focuses on the Jewish theatre in the ghetto, incorporating live music and including as characters historical figures such as Jacob Gens, the chief of the Jewish Police and later Head of the ghetto. It is part of a triptych of plays about the resistance movement, which also includes Adam and Underground.From the programme to the RNT production. Ghetto premièred at the Haifa Municipal Theatre in Israel and the Freie Volksbühne, Berlin, in 1984, with folk and jazz singer, Esther Ofarim as Hayyah:de:Jehoschua Sobol It was performed in the Olivier Theatre at the Royal National Theatre, London, in an English-language version by David Lan, based on a translation by Miriam Schlesinger.
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King John was of interest to 16th century audiences because he had opposed the Pope; two further plays were written about him in the late 16th century, one of them Shakespeare's Life and Death of King John. Patriotic feeling at the time of the Spanish Armada contributed to the appeal of chronicle plays on the Hundred Years' War, notably Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy, while unease over the succession at the close of Elizabeth's reign made plays based on earlier dynastic struggles from the reign of Richard II to the Wars of the Roses topical. Plays about the deposing and killing of kings, or about civil dissension, met with much interest in the 1590s, while plays dramatising supposedly factual episodes from the past, advertised as "true history" (though the dramatist might know otherwise), drew larger audiences than plays with imagined plots.
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Shotgun, the second play in his Rising Water cycle, premiered in 2009 at Southern Rep Theatre, with subsequent productions at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater and Florida Studio Theatre, both in 2010; it won a 2009 National New Play Network Continued Life of New Plays Fund Award and was a 2009 recipient of an Access to Artistic Excellence development and production grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mold, the final play in the trilogy, premiered in 2013 at Southern Rep Theatre. This trilogy of plays about the flooding of New Orleans has been the subject of articles in American Theatre, The American Scholar, and elsewhere. He was awarded a Marquette Fellowship for the writing of Night Train, which he developed on a Studio Attachment at the National Theatre in London and which premiered at New Jersey Rep Theatre in 2011.
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent economic crisis, Rumyanova, like many actors, gradually became unemployed (she was dismissed from the National Film Actors' Theatre) and only occasionally took part in the recording of audio and audio concerts and the production of radio plays. However, even during this period, she was very selective – the general director of the studio "VOX-Records" Viktor Truhan recalled that Rumyanova basically refused to record for audio advertising. Without work, she wrote several plays, in 2000 she published the book "My Name is a Woman" – an author's collection of her plays about significant female characters of Russian history (Nadezhda Durova, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, Evdokiya Rostopchina). Klara negatively spoke about Gorbachev's perestroika, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the policies of President Yeltsin, remained a convinced supporter of communism for the rest of her life.
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LONDON Printed by Thomas Creede, dwelling in Thames streete at the signe of the Kathren wheele, neare the olde Swanne. 1594 It was not until a second edition was issued in 1638 that the title page's information was heavily reworked and the play's authorship was attributed to a writer by the initials T.G.Murphy, Donna M.; “Locrine, Selimus, Robert Greene, and Thomas Lodge”, Notes and Queries, Volume 56, Issue 4, 1 December 2009, Pages 559–563, . These initials suggested that the play's author was Thomas Goffe, a playwright active in the 1630s who also wrote plays about Turks, but Thomas Goffe was just three years old when the first edition of this play was published. The title page of the second edition of Selimus also featured a different play title, different performance attributions, and different publishers on the title page.
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Hare worked with the Portable Theatre Company from 1968 to 1971. His first play, Slag, was produced in 1970, the same year in which he married his first wife, Margaret Matheson; the couple had three children and divorced in 1980. He was Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre, London, from 1970 to 1971, and in 1973 became resident dramatist at the Nottingham Playhouse. He co-founded the Joint Stock Theatre Company with David Aukin and Max Stafford- Clark in 1975. Hare's play Plenty was produced at the National Theatre in 1978, followed by A Map of the World in 1983, and Pravda in 1985, co-written with Howard Brenton. Hare became the Associate Director of the National Theatre in 1984, and has since seen many of his plays produced, such as his trilogy of plays about major British institutions Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges, and The Absence of War.
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Still, in the early years, most of the plays produced came from Europe; only with Godfrey's The Prince of Parthia in 1767 do we get a professionally produced play written by an American, although it was a last-minute substitute for Thomas Forrest's comic opera The Disappointment; or, The Force of Credulity, and although the first play to treat American themes seriously, Ponteach; or, the Savages of America by Robert Rogers, had been published in London a year earlier.Meserve, Walter J. An Outline History of American Drama, New York: Feedback/Prospero, 1994. 'Cato', a play about revolution, was performed for George Washington and his troops at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777–1778. The Revolutionary period was a boost for dramatists, for whom the political debates were fertile ground for both satire, as seen in the works of Mercy Otis Warren and Colonel Robert Munford, and for plays about heroism, as in the works of Hugh Henry Brackenridge.
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Gary Botting's interest in the occult was fueled by his research as an English major into the life and death of Christopher Marlowe, especially Marlowe's best-known play, Doctor Faustus. Botting later wrote two plays about The School of Night, a clandestine Elizabethan club dedicated to delving into the occult, membership in which included Marlowe and such notables as Sir Walter Raleigh, Baron Cobham, the Earl of Northumberland, Thomas Kyd, and Thomas Harriott.Gary Botting, Harriott! (Edmonton: Harden House, 1972); The School of Night, first produced at Crestwood Theatre, Peterborough, Ontario, 1969 Because of the severe social strictures placed upon them by Jehovah's Witnesses, including fear of being disfellowshipped,Heather and Gary Botting, The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984), pp. 48, 50, 63, 66–70, 90–92, 97, 127–128, 133–135, 144, 146, 149, 159, 161–165, 188–189, 192, 196 the Bottings stayed in the "broom closet," discussing their new faith only with fellow practicing pagans.
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A rich aristocrat who often travelled, Sukhovo-Kobylin was arrested, prosecuted and tried for seven years in Russia for the murder of his French mistress Louise-Simone Dimanche, a crime of which he is nowadays generally believed to have been innocent. He only managed to achieve acquittal by means of giving enormous bribes to court officials and by using all of his contacts in the Russian elite. According to his own version as well as the generally accepted view today, he was targeted precisely because he had the financial capabilities to give such bribes. Based on his personal experiences, Sukhovo-Kobylin wrote a trilogy of satirical plays about the prevalence of bribery and other corrupt practices in the Russian judicial system of the time – Krechinsky's Wedding (Russian: Свадьба Кречинского) (1850–1854, begun in prison), The Trial (alternatively titled The Case) (Russian: Дело) (1861), and Tarelkin's Death (alternatively titled Rasplyuyev's merry days) (Russian: Смерть Тарелкина, Расплюевские веселые дни) (1869).
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Ares/Mars is portrayed as young and beardless and seated on a trophy of arms, while an Eros plays about his feet, drawing attention to the fact that the god of war, in a moment of repose, is presented as a love object. The 18th-century connoisseur Johann Joachim Winckelmann, a man with a practiced eye for male beauty, found the Ludovisi Ares the most beautiful Mars that had been preserved from Antiquity, when he wrote the catalogue of the Ludovisi collection. Rediscovered in 1622, the sculpture was apparently originally part of the temple of Mars (founded in 132 BCE in the southern part of the Campus MartiusThe southern part of the Campus Martius ), of which few traces remain, for it was recovered near the site of the church of San Salvatore in Campo. Pietro Santi Bartoli recorded in his notes that it had been found near the Palazzo Santa Croce in Rione Campitelli during the digging of a drain.
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With the help of designer Bruce McIntosh, Merrill created a tabloid publication insert in the Sunday Kansas City Star inviting the public to bring their family photographs and personal archives to the museum where they could pin them to the walls. In conjunction with the exhibit, Merrill also created Portrait of Self, an arts and educational archive of drawing, writing, photography, and other art forms to help young people discuss the many influences on their sense of sense. Since its creation, Merrill has gone on to use Portrait of Self in community arts projects in Dana Beach, Florida; Sydney, Australia; Dublin, Ireland, as well as Colorado Springs, CO; Pittsburgh, PA; Portland, OR; and a number of other cities nationwide. Building on these experiences, Merrill helped transform Chameleon Theatre, a small not-for-profit whose mission was to create dramatic plays about youth experience, into the broader Chameleon Arts and Youth Development agency that utilizes theater, Hip Hop, visual arts, and dance to transform the lives of homeless and at-risk youth.
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Metropolitan Playhouse The Metropolitan Playhouse is a resident producing theater in New York City's East Village. Founded in 1992, the theater is devoted to presenting plays that explore American culture and history, including seldom-produced, "lost" American plays and new plays about or derived from American history and literature. Included among its best known revivals are Abram Hill's On Strivers Row, Owen Davis's Pulitzer Prize winning Icebound, George L. Aiken's adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Jacob Gordin's The Jewish King Lear (in a translation by Ruth Gay), The Great Divide by William Vaughn Moody, The Drunkard by W. H. Smith, Inheritors by Susan Glaspell, The Melting Pot by Israel Zangwill, The City by Clyde Fitch, Metamora by John Augustus Stone, Sun-Up by Lula Vollmer, and The New York Idea by Langdon Mitchell, and numerous early one-act plays by Eugene O'Neill. The company has also staged three 'Living Newspapers' from the Federal Theater Project: Arthur Arent's Power in 2007, One-Third of a Nation in 2011, and Injunction Granted in 2015.
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His long cycle of Pendragon County plays, now numbering well over two dozen and still growing, traces American history from the eighteenth century to the present through the lives of several generations of interconnected families from an east Ohio town. These include Glamorgan, Horrid Massacre In Boston, Armitage, Fisher King, Green Man, Sorceress, Tristan, Pendragon, Chronicles, Anima Mundi, Beast With Two Backs, Laestrygonians, The Circus Animals' Desertion, Dramatis Personae, The Reeves Tale and November. His cycle of Russian plays includes Pushkin, Gogol, An Angler In The Lake Of Darkness (about Leo Tolstoy), Emotion Memory (about Anton Chekhov), A Russian Play, Rasputin, and Mandelstam. His plays about art and artists include Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch Interiors (about Vermeer), Blood Red Roses (about the Pre-Raphaelites), The Daughters of Edward D. Boit (based on the painting by John Singer Sargent), Netherlands (about Van Gogh), Sphinx (about Franz Von Stuck), Madonna (about Edvard Munch), Europe After The Rain (about Max Ernst), Picasso (about the invisible squirrel in a painting by Braque), and City of Dreadful Night, (inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper).
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He began his stage career in 1999 when he was offered a season with the Royal Shakespeare Company playing roles in Ben Jonson's Volpone, as the title character in Oroonoko (which he also performed in the BBC radio adaptation) and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1999) alongside Guy Henry, Frances de la Tour and Alan Bates. However, he is best known for his next stage performance as King Henry VI in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2001 productions of Shakespeare's trilogy of plays about the king as a part of its season This England: The Histories. In a major landmark for colour-blind casting, Oyelowo was the first black actor to play an English king in a major production of Shakespeare, and although this casting choice was initially criticised by some in the media, Oyelowo's performance was critically acclaimed and later won the 2001 Ian Charleson Award for best performance by an actor under 30 in a classical play. In 2005, he appeared in a production of Prometheus Bound, which was revived in New York City in 2007.
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