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Pleasant: Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell .) 1898. Three Plays for Puritans ( The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion) 1901. Dramatic Opinions and Essays: (theatre criticism, Saturday Review 1895-98) 1906.
Almost, Maine is a 2004 American play written by John Cariani, comprising nine short plays that explore love and loss in a remote, mythical almost-town called Almost, Maine. It premiered at the Portland Stage Company in Portland, Maine in 2004, where it broke box office records and garnered critical acclaim. [ 1]
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born in the British Embassy in Paris, where his father worked, Maugham was an orphan by the age of ten. [1]
NEW BEDFORD -- Culture*Park Theatre's Annual Short Plays Marathon returns Nov. 18, featuring staged readings of new short plays and solo narratives by local, regional and global playwrights. From ...
All in the Timing is a collection of one-act plays by the American playwright David Ives, written between 1987 and 1993. It had its premiere Off-Broadway in 1993 at Primary Stages, [1] and was revived at Primary Stages in 2013. [2] It was first published by Dramatists Play Service in 1994, with a collection of six plays; however, the updated ...
Farfetched Fables. Farfetched Fables (1948) is a collection of six short plays by George Bernard Shaw in which he outlines several of his most idiosyncratic personal ideas. The fables are preceded by a long preface. The ideas in the plays and the preface have been called the "violent unabashed prejudices of an eccentric".
e. A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading. The creator of a play is known as a playwright . Plays are staged at various levels, ranging from London's West End and New York City's Broadway – the highest echelons of commercial theatre ...
The History Boys (screenplay, from his play of the same name), 2006; National Theatre: Fifty Years on Stage (actor and writer), 2013; The Lady in the Van (screenplay, from his play of the same name; cameo), 2015; Alan Bennett's Diaries (cinematic documentary, as himself; also writer), 2016; Allelujah (screenplay, from his play of the same name ...