"message ""True love never runs smooth"" (based on the quote from William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" Act1 Scene 1, ""The course of true love never did run smooth"") symbolizes the relationship between Riko and Teppei, which constantly faces struggles from when they meet for the very first time to the love triangle. This advertisement is visible everywhere from the park to Teppei's 30-year-old refrigerator, as ""True love never runs smooth"" is the unofficial tagline of this TV series. Love Generation (TV series) Love Generation, as the title suggests, revolves around the relationship of the two leading protagonists, Katagiri Teppei"
"Passion Play (play) Passion Play is a 1981 play by British playwright Peter Nichols dealing with adultery and betrayal, unusual in that the two leading characters are each portrayed by two actors for public speech and private thoughts. It was originally intended to open the Royal Shakespeare Company's new Barbican Theatre but was produced by them at the London's Aldwych Theatre in 1981. It was revived at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre in 1984 before transferring to Wyndham's Theatre, at the Donmar Warehouse in 2000 before transferring to the Comedy Theatre, and at the Duke of York's Theatre in 2013. It"
"reportedly played at the Red Bull Theatre on 27 February 1662, in the original version, ""the tragical way."" Later that same year, the actor Theophilus Bird was said to have broken his leg while fencing onstage in a performance of ""Aglaura"". Samuel Pepys saw a King's Company production on 10 January 1668 (but he didn't like it). A Suckling lyric from the play, ""Why so pale and wan, fond lover,"" became a popular song of the era. John Dryden, an admirer of Suckling's verse, borrowed lines from ""Aglaura"" for his first comedy, ""The Wild Gallant."" Sir Robert Howard was impressed"
"seventh play, ""Family Album"", was added on the subsequent provincial tour. ""Ways and Means was added for the London run, together with ""Still Life"" and ""Star Chamber"", the last of which was performed only once. The first London performance in the cycle was on 9 January 1936 at the Phoenix Theatre, but ""Ways and Means"" did not premiere until 5 May 1936. Coward directed all ten pieces, and each starred Coward and Gertrude Lawrence. Coward said that he wrote them as ""acting, singing, and dancing vehicles for Gertrude Lawrence and myself"". The plays were performed in various combinations of three"
"theatre of the absurd. In a 1984 article, Archie J. Loss argues that nothing can ever happen in the relationship of Elyot and Amanda, because it is based on conflicting emotions: ""they are bound to repeat themselves, playing out their scene again and again with different words and different props but always with the same result."" In a 2000 study of Coward, Jean Chothia instances surreal exchanges in the play, such as: ""Have you ever crossed the Sahara on a camel?"" ""Frequently. When I was a boy we used to do it all the time. My Grandmother had a wonderful"
"Love's Pilgrimage (play) Love's Pilgrimage is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. The play is unusual in their canon, in that its opening scene contains material from Ben Jonson's 1629 comedy ""The New Inn."" The common materials are ""Love's Pilgrimage,"" Act I, scene i, lines 25-63 and 330-411, and ""The New Inn,"" II,v,48-73 and III,i,57-93 and 130-68. Early researchers like F. G. Fleay and Robert Boyle thought that the Jonsonian material in ""Love's Pilgrimage"" was authorial — that Jonson was one of the creators of the play. Modern critics favor the view that"
"Still Life (play) Still Life is a short play by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up """", a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. The play depicts the love affair of Alec and Laura across a twelve-month period. The sadness of Alec and Laura's serious and secretive affair is contrasted throughout the play with the boisterous, uncomplicated relationship of Myrtle and Albert, two of the station staff. In the introduction to a published edition of the plays, Coward wrote, ""A short play, having a great advantage over a long one in that it can sustain a"
"with music by André Previn from a libretto by John Caird. Still Life (play) Still Life is a short play by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up """", a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. The play depicts the love affair of Alec and Laura across a twelve-month period. The sadness of Alec and Laura's serious and secretive affair is contrasted throughout the play with the boisterous, uncomplicated relationship of Myrtle and Albert, two of the station staff. In the introduction to a published edition of the plays, Coward wrote, ""A short play, having a great"
"riding a red tricycle. In keeping with the play's Greek origins, the Stones serve as a new take on a Greek chorus. The Stones comment on the action and warn the characters, but cannot intervene in any of the events. The play explores relationships, love, communication, and the permeability between the world of the living and the world of the dead, in a quest to discover where true meaning lies in life and thereafter. Her ""Passion Play"" cycle premiered at the Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. in 2005, directed by Molly Smith. It was next produced by the Goodman Theatre (Chicago)"
"The Constant Maid The Constant Maid, or Love Will Find Out the Way is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by James Shirley and first published in 1640. The play is associated with the Irish phase of Shirley's dramatic career (1637–40), and was likely performed in Dublin at the Werburgh Street Theatre. One scholar, however, has produced evidence that ""The Constant Maid"" was originally composed in the early 1630s. ""The Constant Maid"" was never licensed for performance by the Master of the Revels, as it normally would have been, if staged in London. The play could hardly have"
"were ""clearly drawn from a very autobiographical foundation,"" with August's dilemma reflecting a relationship Williams had in Provincetown with ""his actual lover for [one] summer, Kip Kiernan."" ""The Parade"" was written after a fight with Kiernan, and Williams reflected in 1962 that ""[the version of Kip in that play] is very completely different from Kip as he was. When someone hurts us deeply, we no longer see them at all clearly. Not until time has put them back in focus."" Williams' revised version of the play, titled ""Something Cloudy, Something Clear"", opened on August 24, 1981 at The Bouwerie Lane"
"stage play whose title comes from the same line of the Wordsworth poem. The play relates the story of two middle-aged, former lovers who meet again briefly at a diner after a long estrangement; they are essentially the same characters as Bud and Deanie, though the names are Bus and Jackie. Scenes of Kansas and the Loomis home were shot in the Travis section of Staten Island, New York City. Exterior scenes of the high school campus were shot at Horace Mann School in the Bronx. The gothic buildings of the North Campus of The City College of New York"
"Paris. (Shirley would write an entire independent masque on the same subject, in his ""The Triumph of Beauty."") The Constant Maid The Constant Maid, or Love Will Find Out the Way is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by James Shirley and first published in 1640. The play is associated with the Irish phase of Shirley's dramatic career (1637–40), and was likely performed in Dublin at the Werburgh Street Theatre. One scholar, however, has produced evidence that ""The Constant Maid"" was originally composed in the early 1630s. ""The Constant Maid"" was never licensed for performance by the Master"
"the incomplete manuscript when his plane was damaged in combat and the crew ordered to jettison excess weight. ""Flare Path"" was initially rejected twice because it was thought that the public would not want to see a play about the war. It was accepted by producer Binkie Beaumont of H.M. Tennent, Ltd. The play opened at the Apollo Theatre in London on 13 August 1942. The role of Teddy Graham was played by Jack Watling and his wife Patricia was played by Phyllis Calvert. The director was Anthony Asquith, who later directed the film adaptation ""The Way to the Stars""."
"of January 8, 1937, Brooks Atkinson noted: Notes Sources The Eternal Road (opera) The Eternal Road is an opera-oratorio with spoken dialogue in four acts by Kurt Weill with a libretto (originally in German: """" – ""The Way of the Covenant""), by Austrian novelist and playwright Franz Werfel and translated into English by Ludwig Lewisohn. ""The Eternal Road"" premiered at the Manhattan Opera House on January 7, 1937, given a lavish and spectacular production involving 245 actors, and ran for 153 performances. Although it received good reviews, it was not revived for 63 years. The piece was conceived by Zionist"
"a lyric Lerner revised for use in the 1958 film, ""Gigi"". Act 1 Act 2 Other numbers Love Life (musical) Love Life is a musical written by Kurt Weill (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics). It opened at the 46th Street Theatre on Broadway (now the Richard Rodgers) on October 7, 1948, and closed on May 14, 1949, after having played 252 performances. The original production starred Ray Middleton and Nanette Fabray, was directed by Elia Kazan, and choreographed by Michael Kidd. The show told the story of a married couple, Sam and Susan Cooper, who never age"
"The Lovers' Progress The Lovers' Progress, also known as The Wandering Lovers, or Cleander, or Lisander and Calista, is an early seventeenth-century stage play, a tragicomedy written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. As its multiple titles indicate, the play has a complex history and has been a focus of controversy among scholars and critics. The historical facts pertinent to the play, in chronological order, are these: The consensus interpretation of this evidence is that Fletcher wrote a solo play titled ""The Wandering Lovers,"" which was acted in late 1623 or early 1624 by the King's Men. A decade later,"
"part of a megamix of several songs from the movie version. In the movie version of ""Grease"", Travolta and Newton-John played the lead roles of Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson. The song's genesis stems from a summertime love affair between Danny and Sandy, which had ended upon Sandy's revelation that she was moving back to Australia with her family. However, Sandy soon learns that her family is staying in the United States and subsequently enrolls at Rydell High School, where Danny is also a student. (In the original stage version, Sandy Dumbrowski, who like many other characters in the play"
"strappado, linen ball, and pearl of confession shall torment thee...,"" etc. Despite the play's references to contemporary events, it gives no sense that it is in any way a commentary on the specific English political situation of its time. It is hard to see how either set of English rulers in its era — King James I and Queen Anne, or King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria — could be allegorised as Love and Hatred. Though the morality-play genre was definitely old-fashioned by 1630, it had not yet died out entirely. Apart from the earlier ""Lingua"", ""Pathomachia"" can be"
"1967, including ""Ways and Means"" in 1948 but not 1967. Revivals in 1981 at the Lyric Theatre in London and at the Chichester Festival in 2006 omitted ""Ways and Means"". In 1971, the Shaw Festival revived three of the plays, and in 2000, the Williamstown Theatre Festival revived six of them, in both cases omitting ""Ways and Means"". However, the Antaeus Company in Los Angeles revived all ten plays in October 2007, and the Shaw Festival is scheduled to revive the full cycle in 2009. Ideas from the play were used in the 1942 film ""We Were Dancing"". For a"
"Ways and Means (play) Ways and Means is a short comic play by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up """", a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. The story concerns an heiress and her gambling husband, who are plagued by debt and embarrassment as everything seems to always go wrong for them. Their honour is saved just in time when a disgraced chauffeur tries to rob them but amiably ends up pulling them out of a hole. In the introduction to a published edition of the plays, Coward wrote, ""A short play, having a great advantage"
"Sweet Lavender Sweet Lavender is a play in three acts by Arthur Wing Pinero, first performed in 1888. The sentimental and gently humorous story concerns the romance of Lavender Rolt and Clement Hale, and the complications impeding the course of true love. The original production opened on 21 March 1888 at Terry's Theatre in London, starring Edward Terry as Dick Phenyl, Brandon Thomas as Geoffrey Wedderburn, Carlotta Addison as Mrs Rolt, and Rose Norreys and Harry Reeves-Smith in the romantic leads. The play was so popular that it ran for 684 performances – a conspicuously long run for the time"
"has not been revived on the West End stage. A Cup of Kindness (play) A Cup of Kindness is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the sixth in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented by the actor-manager Tom Walls at the theatre between 1923 and 1933. Several of the actors formed a regular core cast for the Aldwych farces. The play depicts the feud between two suburban families. The piece opened on 24 May 1929 and ran for 291 performances. Travers made a film adaptation, which Walls directed"
"Labour of Love (play) Labour of Love is a 2017 play by James Graham. It tells the story of a Labour MP over 25 years in office in Kirkby-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The full cast included Martin Freeman as David Lyons, Tamsin Greig as Jean Whittaker, Rachael Stirling as Elizabeth Lyons, Kwong Loke as Mr Shen, Dickon Tyrrell as Len Prior and Susie Wokoma as Margot Midler. Directed by Jeremy Herrin, the play began previews at the Noel Coward Theatre on 27 September 2017, with an official opening night on 2 October. It concluded its limited run on 2 December 2017."
"Love Life (musical) Love Life is a musical written by Kurt Weill (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics). It opened at the 46th Street Theatre on Broadway (now the Richard Rodgers) on October 7, 1948, and closed on May 14, 1949, after having played 252 performances. The original production starred Ray Middleton and Nanette Fabray, was directed by Elia Kazan, and choreographed by Michael Kidd. The show told the story of a married couple, Sam and Susan Cooper, who never age as they progress from 1791 to 1948, encountering difficulties in their marriage (and thus the very fabric"
"The Drag (play) The Drag is a dramatic play written by Mae West under her pen name Jane Mast. The play opened in out-of-town tryouts in New Jersey and Connecticut, but was later forced to close for its portrayal of homosexuality and cross-dressing. The play never opened on Broadway, as West had planned. This play was the follow-up to West's highly controversial play ""Sex"". West claimed that the inspiration behind the play came from the homosexual young men that she knew around that time who, according to her, desperately wanted to be open about their relationships with their male companions."
"is in the production."" CurtainUp reviewer Les Gutman calls the play ""not terribly interesting"", citing in particular a fundamental incompatibility between the source material's comedy and Stoppard's absurdist style. Rough Crossing Rough Crossing is a 1984 comedic play by British playwright Tom Stoppard, ""freely adapted from Ferenc Molnár's ""Play at the Castle"""". Set on board the SS ""Italian Castle"", it follows world-renowned playwrights Sandor Turai and Alex Gal in their attempts to preserve, with the assistance of the unorthodox cabin steward Dvornichek, the relationship of their composer, Adam Adam, and his love, the leading lady Natasha Navratilova, despite the interference"
"of love as sham and pretense. Critics have seen an obvious influence from Shakespeare's ""Othello"" in Ford's play. D'Avolos is a version of Iago; Bianca champions the cause of a courtier named Roselli, as Desdemona champions Cassio. The poet Richard Crashaw refers to two of Ford's plays in a couplet in his ""Delights of the Muses"" (1646): Love's Sacrifice Love's Sacrifice is a Caroline era stage play, a tragedy written by John Ford, and first published in 1633. It is one of Ford's three surviving solo tragedies, the others being ""The Broken Heart"" and ""'Tis Pity She's a Whore"". The"
"thinks it is because he had flirted with Avice. Julia does not go to the first night party, but dines alone at The Berkeley, triumphant. She thinks that actors are real and others are the raw material. ""Roger says we don't exist. Why, it's only we who do exist... They say acting is only make-believe. That make-believe is the only reality."" ""Theatre"" was adapted as a play of the same name by Guy Bolton; it was first seen at the Hudson Theatre in New York, and ran for 69 performances, from 12 November 1941 to 10 January 1942. It featured"
"play had ""the courage of true poetry ..."" The characters and story mimic Williams' own life more closely than any of his other works. Williams (whose real name was Thomas) closely resembles Tom; his mother, Amanda. His sickly and mentally unstable older sister Rose provides the basis for the fragile Laura (whose nickname in the play is ""Blue Roses"", a result of a bout of pleurosis as a high school student), though it has also been suggested that Laura may incorporate aspects of Williams himself, referencing his introverted nature and obsessive focus on just one aspect of life (writing for"
"accomplishment of Ziegfeld's career – the only one of his shows that is regularly performed today."" The score is, arguably, Kern's greatest and includes the well-known songs ""Ol' Man River"" and ""Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"" as well as ""Make Believe"", ""You Are Love"", ""Life Upon the Wicked Stage"", ""Why Do I Love You"", all with lyrics by Hammerstein, and ""Bill"", originally written for ""Oh, Lady! Lady!"", with lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse. The show ran for 572 performances on Broadway and was also a success in London. Although Ferber's novel was filmed unsuccessfully as a part-talkie in 1929 (using"
"opened, as ""Passion"", on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre on May 7, 1983 where it closed on August 8, 1983 after 97 performances. The Broadway production was directed by Marshall W. Mason and starred Cathryn Damon as Eleanor, Frank Langella as Jim, Stephanie Gordon as Agnes, Bob Gunton as James, Roxanne Hart as Kate, and E. Katherine Kerr as Nell. Passion Play (play) Passion Play is a 1981 play by British playwright Peter Nichols dealing with adultery and betrayal, unusual in that the two leading characters are each portrayed by two actors for public speech and private thoughts. It was"
"Their love for each other is never in doubt, there is never any personal danger, nothing distracts the attention of the audience. The great art of Racine is to make something out of nothing, as he says himself in the preface to the play. The tension reaches its climax at the end of the fourth act, when Titus explains his dilemma, and Berenice refuses his decision. In the fifth act, they both come to terms with their duty; contrary to other plays by the same author, neither seeks escape through death. Berenice (play) Berenice () is a five-act tragedy by"