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"and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein and book by Joseph Stein is based on the 1924 play ""Juno and the Paycock"" by Seán O'Casey. It originally opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theater on March 9, 1959, starring Shirley Booth and Melvyn Douglas and played a total of sixteen performances. Songs include ""I Wish It So"", ""We’re Alive"", and ""One Kind Word"". Stein lived in Manhattan with his wife Elisa Loti, an Obie Award and Theatre World Award-winning actress who was featured on the cover of LIFE Magazine and who is now a psychotherapist practicing as Elisa Stein. He was"
"trivialises everything.) ""It doesn't matter what you say, ma – a principle's a principle."" – Mary Boyle speaking about the strike ""He ought to be here."" (Johnny on Boyle's absence.) In 1930, a British film adaptation of the play was produced which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In the United States, it was also known by the title ""The Shame of Mary Boyle."" There are three television adaptions of ""Juno and the Paycock"": A musical adaptation of the play, titled ""Juno"", was created by Marc Blitzstein (music, lyrics) and Joseph Stein (book) and opened on Broadway in 1959. Shirley Booth"
"of force, as a transience from Anglo-Irish ascendancy towards a gaelic identity. The Abbey Theatre was another arena for expression outwith the plays of James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, and Lady Gregory. But perhaps the most pugilistic was the Marxist-inspired ""The Plough and the Stars"" and existentialist ""Juno and the Paycock"" both penned by Seán O'Casey. The active discussion of physical fighting on stage mirrored actual events on the streets, almost as they were happening. Unequivocally stated the nationalism was overtly gaelic in language and perception. And through the convenient medium of acting, women became supported in rights, even to"
"In November through December 2009, she appeared Off-Broadway at the Acorn Theatre in her husband's (Kenneth Lonergan) play ""The Starry Messenger"". From October 2013 to December 2013, she starred in the Off-Broadway Irish Repertory Theater production of ""Juno and the Paycock"" as Juno Boyle. The ""New York Times"" reviewer wrote: ""In one of the finest performances of her distinguished career on the New York stage, Ms. Smith-Cameron imbues her Juno with a steely pragmatism, but more important an emotional pliancy that makes her more prepared than the rest of her clan to beat back the onslaughts of ill fortune that"
"be fruitful for both theatre and dramatist but which ended in some bitterness. The play deals with the impact of revolutionary politics on Dublin's slums and their inhabitants, and is understood to be set in Mountjoy Square, where he lived during the 1916 Easter Rising. It was followed by ""Juno and the Paycock"" (1924) and ""The Plough and the Stars"" (1926). The former deals with the effect of the Irish Civil War on the working class poor of the city, while the latter is set in Dublin in 1916 around the Easter Rising. Both plays deal realistically with the rhetoric"
"such as Douglas Hyde, Michael Cusack and Eamonn Ceannt William Bulfin, best known for introducing Gaelic sports to Argentina, was a key writer for the United Irishman and a key international promoter of the Irish Independence cause. In 1902, he met at An Stad with McGarvey, Hyde, Griffith and others, and is credited with introducing the members of the United Irishman to the later founders of the Abbey Theatre Seán O'Casey, author of such plays as ""Juno and the Paycock"" and ""The Plough and the Stars"" was a regular at An Stad during the early 20th century Sean T O'Kelly"
"""Juno and the Paycock"", first in Dublin in 1988 and again in Minneapolis in 2015, both for director Joe Dowling. Her Minneapolis appearance was her final stage performance, directed by Dowling in his farewell production in charge of the Guthrie theatre in mid-2015. She had, said Dowling, grown even greater in the role, bringing an added elegance and finesse to the spirited mouthpiece of the Dublin tenements during the nationalist schisms of 1922. Reeves was first married to Barry McGovern but separated after five months. She subsequently married Julian Erskine, executive producer for ""Riverdance"", whom she met when she was"
"Rosalind Bennett Rosalind Sophia Bennett (born 13 May 1966) is an English stage and television actress. Rosalind was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, and trained at The Drama Centre, she went on to a number of stage, television and screen roles. Her film appearances included Miss Pickwick in ""American Roulette"" and Eleanor in ""Restoration"". Television roles included an appearance in six episodes of ""Coronation Street"" in 1986. Bennett's stage roles include Mary in ""Juno and the Paycock"" at the National Theatre. She also appears in ""Tales of the Unexpected"" episode ""The Facts of Life"". Bennett married actor Linus Roache in 2002."
"in that one goes to work for four or five weeks or longer and plays a part nightly and everyone talks about the play and their roles. Television is not like that. In television one turns on a camera and one plays ones lines in scenes and when the camera is switched off then you are finished. I get greater satisfaction out of drama and theatre roles"". In 1988, Oates appeared at the Gate Theatre in the Seán O'Casey play ""Juno and the Paycock"", playing a furniture removal man. It was also performed at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway"
"in 1914. She quickly gained a reputation as a noted comic actress and singer. She became identified with Maisie Madigan in ""Juno and the Paycock"" and Bessie Burgess in ""The Plough and the Stars"" (both by Seán O'Casey), as well as the Widow Quin in Synge's ""Playboy of the Western World"". In 1959 she was nominated for a Tony Award for her part in the play ""God and Kate Murphy"". She also appeared in a number of plays by Irish playwright Teresa Deevy which were staged at the Abbey Theatre, A Disciple in 1931, Temporal Powers in 1932, Katie Roche"
"Rhinoceros (play) Rhinoceros () is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant-garde drama, ""The Theatre of the Absurd"", although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow. Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses; ultimately the only human who does not succumb to this mass metamorphosis is the central character, Bérenger, a flustered everyman figure who is initially criticized in the play for his drinking, tardiness, and slovenly lifestyle and then, later, for his increasing paranoia"
"and dangers of Irish patriotism, with tenement life, self-deception, and survival; they are tragi-comedies in which violent death throws into relief the blustering masculine bravado of characters such as Jack Boyle and Joxer Daly in ""Juno and the Paycock"" and the heroic resilience of Juno herself or of Bessie Burgess in ""The Plough and the Stars"". ""Juno and the Paycock"" became a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ""The Plough and the Stars"" was not well received by the Abbey audience and resulted in scenes reminiscent of the riots that greeted J. M. Synge's ""The Playboy of the Western World"" in"
"for more valuable books. In 1830 he founded his own company, ""James Duffy and Sons"" and issued ""Boney's Oraculum"", or ""Napoleon's Book of Fate"", which experienced huge sales. ""Boney's Oraculum"" would later be the object of an allusion in a speech of Capt. Boyle in Seán O'Casey's 1924 play ""Juno and the Paycock"". Another great editorial success was achieved when he collaborated with Charles Gavan Duffy (no relation) from 1843 to 1846 to publish poetry from the writers of ""The Nation"". By the 1860s he was employing 120 staff members at his various enterprises in Dublin. In 1860 he started"
"Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as ""The Zoo Story"" (1958), ""The Sandbox"" (1959), ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" (1962), and ""A Delicate Balance"" (1966). Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. His works are often considered as frank examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights"
"Knock Knock (play) Knock Knock is a play written by American author, cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer. It is a comedy, and was produced on Broadway in 1976, where it earned Tony Award nominations including Best Play. In a cabin in the woods, two bickering old Jewish recluses, Abe and Cohn, have retired, and haven't moved in two decades. Abe is a former stockbroker, and Cohn is an unemployed musician. In fact Abe and Cohn represent one character, that has been split into two opposing sides of the same spirit: Cohn is the realist, who believing only in empirical reality,"
"his first London stage appearance at the Court Theatre in August 1925 playing the Rev Septimus Tudor in ""The Farmer's Wife"". Among dozens of stage roles that followed, he played Bonaparte to Margaret Rawlings's Josephine in ""Napoleon"" at the Embassy Theatre in September 1934. In 1928 he attracted the attention of Alfred Hitchcock, who gave him the role of ""The Paycock"" in the 1930 film, ""Juno and the Paycock"". In the same year he also made an appearance in ""Caste"". He had a role in ""The Citadel"" in 1938 and appeared alongside George Formby in the Ealing Studios comedy ""Turned"
"John Kavanagh (actor) John Kavanagh is an Irish actor who has acted on the stage, in over twenty films including ""Cal"" (1984), ""Braveheart"" (1995) and ""Alexander"" (2004), and in numerous television programs. His awards include being nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play in 1989 for his role in a revival of ""Juno and the Paycock"". John Kavanagh is an Irish character actor. He began his career with the Irish comedy ""Paddy"" (1970), where he played the small role of Willie Egan. That same year, he played another small role in the World War II"
"a drama critic, allowing him free entry to Broadway and downtown shows. In this capacity he saw the 1926 Broadway production of Seán O'Casey's ""Juno and the Paycock."" O'Casey's work would prove to be a powerful influence on Odets as a playwright. In his early twenties, Odets spent four summers as a dramatics counselor at Jewish camps in the Catskills and the Poconos. He toured extensively with stock companies, in particular Philadelphia's popular Mae Desmond Company, playing a large variety of character roles at their theater in Chester, Pennsylvania. His first Broadway break came in 1929, when he was cast"
"Anna Reynolds Anna Reynolds (born June 1, 1968) is a British novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. She is the author of ""Tightrope"" (1991) and ""Jordan"", which was voted ""Best Play of 1992"" at the Writers Guild Awards, and co-author of ""The Winding Sheet"", a film that won a Silver Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival. Her first novel, ""Insanity"", was published in 1996. Reynolds has had 10 plays professionally produced, including ""Jordan"", ""Red"" (Clean Break Theatre Company), ""Precious"" (West Yorkshire Playhouse), ""Wild Things"" (Salisbury Playhouse), ""Look At Me"" (Theatre Centre/Mercury Theatre), ""Deep Joy"" (Mercury Theatre), ""Skin Hunger"" (Time Out Critics Choice,"
"Clare Dunne (Irish actress) Clare Dunne is an Irish actress, born in Dublin. She has appeared in stage roles with the Abbey Theatre and the National Theatre. Dunne’s work at the Abbey Theatre includes ""Juno and the Paycock"" (a co-production between the Abbey Theatre and the National Theatre of Great Britain). Other theatre work includes ""The Cripple of Inishmaan"", ""The Silver Tassie"", ""Druid 35"" and ""The Playboy of the Western World"" (Druid), ""Julius Caesar"" (Donmar Warehouse), ""Detroit"" (National Theatre), ""Three Sisters"" (Lyric Hammersmith and Filter), ""A Midsummer Night’s Dream"" (Filter at Latitude) and ""Crunch"" (Nabakov). Dunne wrote and performed ""Living"
"The Mandrake The Mandrake (Italian: ""La Mandragola"" ) is a satirical play by Italian Renaissance philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli. Although the five-act comedy was published in 1524 and first performed in the carnival season of 1526, Machiavelli likely wrote ""The Mandrake"" in 1518 as a distraction from his bitterness at having been excluded from the diplomatic and political life of Florence following the 1512 reversion to Medici rule. Both contemporary and modern scholars read the play as an overt critique of the House of Medici; however, Machiavelli set the action in 1504 during the period of the Florentine Republic in order"
"Bingo (play) Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death is a 1973 play by English Marxist playwright Edward Bond. It depicts an ageing William Shakespeare at his Warwickshire home in 1615 and 1616, suffering pangs of conscience in part because he signed a contract which protected his landholdings, on the condition that he would not interfere with an enclosure of common lands that would hurt the local peasant farmers. Although the play is fictional, this contract has a factual basis. ""Bingo"" is a political drama heavily influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Epic theatre. In an interview with the ""Sunday Times"", Bond"
"show ended its run July 3, 1976. The playwright, Jules Feiffer is a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist. In his signature style, he created the artwork for the poster and program, which shows figures peering out from behind a door to answer the knock. Knock Knock (play) Knock Knock is a play written by American author, cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer. It is a comedy, and was produced on Broadway in 1976, where it earned Tony Award nominations including Best Play. In a cabin in the woods, two bickering old Jewish recluses, Abe and Cohn, have retired, and haven't moved in"
"Juno and Avos (opera) Juno and Avos (, Junona I Avos') is a popular Russian-language rock opera written by Alexey Rybnikov, poetry by Andrei Voznesensky. It was first performed in 1981 in the Lenkom Theatre, Moscow, directed by Mark Zakharov. Main roles in the premiere performed by Soviet stars Nikolai Karachentsov and . The opera is named after the two ships ""Juno"" and ""Avos"" that constituted the expedition headed by Russian explorer Nikolai Rezanov. The plot is based on the love story of Nikolai Rezanov and Concepción Argüello, a 15-year-old daughter of José Darío Argüello, the colonial governor of Spanish"
"Snoo Wilson Andrew James Wilson (2 August 1948 – 3 July 2013), better known as Snoo Wilson, was an English playwright, screenwriter and director. His early plays such as ""Blow-Job"" (1971) were overtly political, often combining harsh social comment with comedy. In his later works he moved away from purely political themes, embracing a range of surrealist, magical, philosophical and madcap, darkly comic subjects. After studying literature at the University of East Anglia, Wilson began his writing career in 1969. He began to build his reputation with a series of plays and screenplays in the early 1970s and was a"
"had not read any of the screenplays. The result of the break was that Hancock chose to separately develop something previously discussed, and the writers were ultimately commissioned to write a ""Comedy Playhouse"" series for the BBC, one of which, ""The Offer"", emerged as the pilot for ""Steptoe and Son"". That ""something previously discussed"" became ""The Punch and Judy Man"", for which Hancock hired writer Philip Oakes, who moved in with the comedian to co-write the screenplay. In ""The Punch and Judy Man"" (1962), Hancock plays a struggling seaside entertainer who dreams of a better life; Sylvia Syms plays his"
"In Romania"". Notes Bibliography Further reading Rhinoceros (play) Rhinoceros () is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant-garde drama, ""The Theatre of the Absurd"", although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow. Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses; ultimately the only human who does not succumb to this mass metamorphosis is the central character, Bérenger, a flustered everyman figure who is initially criticized in the play for his drinking, tardiness, and slovenly lifestyle and"
"the rural 19th century poet John Clare. It involves Clare in the Littleport Riots of 1816, and then makes his own poetry the depository of the spirit of this rural rebellion against the growth of modern industrial capitalism. The failure of this historical class war eventually drives him to a madhouse. In 1976 ""Bingo"" won the Obie award as Best Off-Broadway play and ""The Fool"" was voted best play of the year by ""Plays and Players"". Bond remained a successful playwright in England all through the 1970s, expanding his range of writing and his collaborations. His plays were requested by"
"lived in the same house in Dublin as Seán O'Casey at the time that the playwright was working on ""Juno and the Paycock"". When he was 52 years old, Raworth acquired an Irish passport. He was educated at St. Stephen's Primary School, Welling, Kent (1943–1949); St Joseph's Academy, Blackheath, London S.E.3. (1949–1954); and at the University of Essex (1967–1970), where he earned a Master's degree in 1970. He left school at the age of sixteen and worked at a variety of jobs. According to Raworth: Beginning in the early 1960s, with the magazine called ""Outburst"", Raworth started his professional publishing"
"Eugène Ionesco Eugène Ionesco (born Eugen Ionescu, ; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays depict the solitude and insignificance of human existence in a tangible way. Ionesco was born in Slatina, Romania, to a Romanian father belonging to the Orthodox Christian church and a mother of French and Romanian heritage, whose faith was Protestant (the faith into which her father was born and to which her originally Greek Orthodox Christian mother"
"The Punch and Judy Man The Punch and Judy Man is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Jeremy Summers from a script by Philip Oakes and Tony Hancock for the Associated British Picture Corporation. It was Hancock's second and last starring role in a film, following ""The Rebel"" (1961). Based on Hancock's childhood memories of Bournemouth, the movie is set in 1963 in the sleepy fictional seaside town of Piltdown. Hancock plays Wally Pinner, the unhappily married Punch and Judy Man. Wally and the other beach entertainers, the Sandman (John Le Mesurier) who makes sand sculptures, and Neville the"
"selection of directors and playwrights. In an interview with MPR, he said ""this kind of drip drip drip of complaints about the Guthrie - I'm not certain that it's constructive."" In April 2014, Dowling announced that he would be retiring from the Guthrie Theater after the 2014/2015 season. Dowling himself will direct productions of ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", ""The Crucible"" and finishing with ""Juno and the Paycock"", which he had previously directed on Broadway in 1988. Joe Dowling Joe Dowling (born 27 September 1948) is an Artistic Director. He was artistic director for the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United"
"1826. Other well known plays were ""Wreck Ashore"" (1830) and ""Forgery"" (1832) Perhaps the most successful of these early plays was his 1833 play, ""The Bravo"", based on James Fenimore Cooper's novel of the same name. He first appeared at the Haymarket Theatre during the summer season in 1833, also writing plays for this theatre, including ""Ellen Wartham"" (1833). Another hit for the Haymarket was the drama ""Thirty Years of a Woman's Life"". At that theatre, his acting was praised in ""The Housekeeper"" by Douglas Jerrold (1833), ""Pyramus and Thisbe"", and in his own plays, ""Uncle John"", ""Rural Felicity"" and"