Who wrote the play 'The Norman Conquests'?
"It was the most expensive stage production ever at the time of its debut. In 2008 he directed David Mamet's ""Speed-the-Plow"", starring Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum and Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy of plays ""The Norman Conquests"" at London's Old Vic Theatre, and ""Boeing Boeing"" at New York's Broadhurst Theatre for which he received a Tony nomination for Best Director of a Play. During the 2009 Broadway season, Warchus directed two productions. One was the critically lauded, 2009 Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Play transfer of his Old Vic production of ""The Norman Conquests"", for which he won"
"Singular"" (1975), ""The Norman Conquests"" trilogy (1973), ""Bedroom Farce"" (1975), ""Just Between Ourselves"" (1976), ""A Chorus of Disapproval"" (1984), ""Woman in Mind"" (1985), ""A Small Family Business"" (1987), ""Man Of The Moment"" (1988), ""House"" & ""Garden"" (1999) and ""Private Fears in Public Places"" (2004). His plays have won numerous awards, including seven London ""Evening Standard"" Awards. They have been translated into over 35 languages and are performed on stage and television throughout the world. Ten of his plays have been staged on Broadway, attracting two Tony nominations, and one Tony award. Ayckbourn was born in Hampstead, London. His mother Irene"
"Marsha Norman Marsha Norman (born September 21, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play ""'night, Mother"". She wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as ""The Secret Garden"", for which she won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and ""The Red Shoes"", as well as the libretto for the musical ""The Color Purple"" and the book for the musical ""The Bridges of Madison County"". She is co-chair of the playwriting department at The Juilliard School. Norman was born"
"plays originally premiered on Broadway in 1975 for 69 performances at the Morosco Theatre, directed by Eric Thompson and featuring Richard Benjamin, Ken Howard, Barry Nelson, Estelle Parsons, Paula Prentiss, and Carole Shelley. The first major London revival of ""The Norman Conquests"" was presented at The Old Vic Theatre in 2008 with Matthew Warchus directing a cast including Stephen Mangan as Norman, Jessica Hynes as Annie, Ben Miles as Tom, Amanda Root as Sarah, Paul Ritter as Reg and Amelia Bullmore as Ruth. The Old Vic auditorium was transformed to a theatre in the round, known as the CQS Space,"
"be given a soldier's grave, and proclaims himself King. His men respond enthusiastically, and the standard-bearer replaces Harold's standard with that of William, while the nuns and monks remain kneeled round Harold's body. The End. Edith falls prostrate over Harold's body. The End. Harold or the Norman Conquest Harold, or the Norman Conquest is an opera in four acts with music by the British composer Frederic H. Cowen with a libretto by Edward Malet, edited by Frederic Edward Weatherly, adapted into the German by L.A. Caumont, and first performed at Covent Garden, London on 8 June 1895. In a hall"
"abrupt career transformation, going from investment management to the ""big, shining lights of Broadway""; she started out by helping with the business end of productions, and gradually became a full-fledged Broadway producer. Dubin is a graduate of the University of Rochester and worked for years as an actuary before becoming a Broadway producer. Jane Dubin Jane Dubin is an American producer of Broadway plays. She won a Tony Award in 2009 for ""The Norman Conquests"", for the ""Best Broadway Play Revival of 2009"". Her productions have won Tony Awards for ""An American in Paris"" (2015) as well as ""Ann"" and"
"Harold or the Norman Conquest Harold, or the Norman Conquest is an opera in four acts with music by the British composer Frederic H. Cowen with a libretto by Edward Malet, edited by Frederic Edward Weatherly, adapted into the German by L.A. Caumont, and first performed at Covent Garden, London on 8 June 1895. In a hall in Alfnoth's castle, Alfnoth and his men return from hunting, and Edith, Alfnoth's daughter, comes out to greet her father. Harold, Earl Godwin's son, who had joined the hunting party uninvited to gain access to Edith, with whom he is in love (and"
"Dreams"" (2005), ""Irene in Time"" (2009), ""Queen of the Lot"" (2010) and ""Festival in Cannes"" (2001), for which Norman received favorable reviews. In 1998, Norman acquired the catalog of the American Play Company (founded 1889) for himself and actor-producer Michael Douglas for their newly formed joint venture, The American Entertainment Holding Company (AEHC), which controlled the rights to thousands of plays and manuscripts by such authors as John Steinbeck, Tennessee Williams, George Bernard Shaw, Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Oscar Wilde, A.A. Milne and Maurine Dallas Watkins. In 2008, Norman initiated a lawsuit against Douglas; the two settled out of court,"
"Frank Norman Frank Norman (9 June 1930 – 23 December 1980) was a British novelist and playwright. His reputation rests on his first memoir ""Bang to Rights"" (1958) and his musical play ""Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be"" (1960), but much of the remainder of his work remains fresh and readable. Norman's early success was based in part on the frankness of his memoirs and in part on the style of his writing, which contained both renditions of cockney speakers and his own poor spelling. Jeffrey Bernard in an obituary of Norman wrote that he was Norman was born in"
"Norman currently serves on the faculty of the Juilliard School in New York City, and is Vice-President of the Dramatists Guild of America. She was honored at the 2011 William Inge Festival for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre. ""Note: plays or musicals unless otherwise indicated"" Marsha Norman Marsha Norman (born September 21, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play ""'night, Mother"". She wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as ""The Secret Garden"", for which she won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award"
"powers, she finds the dispatches in Napoleon's coat. Napoleon says he's been outwitted by an Englishwoman, and makes a series of comments about the English ability to constantly have things both ways (""As the great champion of freedom and national independence, he conquers and annexes half the world, and calls it Colonization""). He gives the woman the letter unopened; she burns it. The play was written for Ellen Terry and Richard Mansfield, but was first performed, on 1 July 1897, at the Grand theatre, Croydon with Murray Carson and Florence West in the principal roles. The play was the first"
"Play 2009 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Director of a Play 2009 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance 2009 Special Theatre World Award to the Entire Cast of ""The Norman Conquests 2008 Tony Award Best Sound Design 2008 Tony Award Best Lighting Design 2008 Drama Desk Award Unique Theatrical Experience 2008 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design 2006 Theatre World Award 2006 Theatre World Award 2003 Theatre World Award Outstanding Revival of a Musical or Revue 1994 Drama Desk Outstanding Solo Performance 1994 Theatre World Award 1994 Drama Desk Award Unique Theater Experience Harriet Leve Harriet"
"Norman Mailer Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist. His novel ""The Naked and the Dead"" was published in 1948 and brought him renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel ""Armies of the Night"" won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. His best-known work is widely considered to be ""The Executioner's Song"", the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In over six decades of work, Mailer had eleven best selling books in each of the seven decades after"
"Jane Dubin Jane Dubin is an American producer of Broadway plays. She won a Tony Award in 2009 for ""The Norman Conquests"", for the ""Best Broadway Play Revival of 2009"". Her productions have won Tony Awards for ""An American in Paris"" (2015) as well as ""Ann"" and ""Peter the Starcatcher"". She has worked as a board member with the ""Houses on the Moon"" theater company. She is president of ""Double Play Connections"". She co-produced ""The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey"" which was nominated at the Lucille Lortel Awards in 2016 for best Solo Show. At age 40, she underwent an"
"'night, Mother 'night, Mother is a play by American playwright Marsha Norman. The play won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. The play is about a daughter, Jessie, and her mother, Thelma. It begins with Jessie calmly telling her Mama that by morning she will be dead, as she plans to commit suicide that very evening. The subsequent dialogue between Jessie and Mama slowly reveals her reasons for her decision, her life with Mama, and how thoroughly she has planned her own death, culminating in a disturbing, yet unavoidable, climax."
"The Conquest of Granada The Conquest of Granada is a Restoration era stage play, a two-part tragedy written by John Dryden that was first acted in 1670 and 1671 and published in 1672. It is notable both as a defining example of the ""heroic drama"" pioneered by Dryden, and as the subject of later satire. The plot deals with the Spanish conquest of Granada in 1492 and the fall of Muhammad XII of Granada, the last Islamic ruler on the Iberian Peninsula. The original 1670 production by the King's Company featured Edward Kynaston as ""Mahomet Boabdelin, last King of Granada,"""
"Norman Lee Swartout Norman Lee Swartout, Sr. (April 17, 1879 - October 30, 1930) was an American playwright. He was the editor and manager of the play department for Longman, Green & Co. He became the director of the Summit Playhouse in 1918. He was born in Auburn, New York in April 17, 1879. He attended the University of Rochester where he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and graduated around 1901. He made his stage debut ""Don Caesar's Return"" with James Keteltas Hackett at Wallack's Theatre in Manhattan. He wrote the farcical play ""The Arrival of"
"Norman, Is That You? Norman, Is That You? is a 1970 play in two acts by American playwrights Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick about a Jewish couple coming to terms with their son's homosexuality. The work is notably the first play written by both writers. After 19 preview performances, the play officially opened on Broadway on February 19, 1970 at the Lyceum Theatre. It closed after only 12 more performances on February 28, 1970. The production was directed by George Abbott and starred Martin Huston as Norman Chambers, Walter Willison as Garson Hobart, Lou Jacobi as Ben Chambers, Dorothy Emmerson"
"Norm Foster (playwright) Norman Foster, (born February 14, 1949) is a Canadian playwright, considered to be Canada's most produced playwright. Foster discovered his talents as a playwright in Fredericton, New Brunswick, while he was working as host of a popular morning radio show. He accompanied a friend to an audition, and landed his first acting job, as Elwood P. Dowd in ""Harvey"", without ever having even seeing a play. Intrigued with the theatre, he set his pen to paper and wrote his first play titled ""Sinners"". In 1983 and 1984 Theatre New Brunswick mounted the first professional productions of ""Sinners"""
"not even Alexander Pope, is better than Dryden at driving narrative through rhyme, but the aural effect is like that of being pelted with a succession of pellets. When, as in ""The Conquest of Granada"", the pelting continues for ten acts, the impact is deafening."" The Conquest of Granada The Conquest of Granada is a Restoration era stage play, a two-part tragedy written by John Dryden that was first acted in 1670 and 1671 and published in 1672. It is notable both as a defining example of the ""heroic drama"" pioneered by Dryden, and as the subject of later satire."
"titled ""The Battle of the Poets"", on 30 November 1730, but its author is unknown. Fielding did not like the addition and made it clear in an announcement about the play's production in the 30 November 1730 ""Daily Journal"". During the 20th century, the play was turned into a musical titled ""Lock Up Your Daughters"" (1959), enjoying success, and the original play was later performed for 20 nights at the Soho Rep Theatre during 1983. Cast according to original printed billing: The revised edition scheduled Anthony Boheme to play Politick and John Hippisley to play Squeezum. Boheme had to leave"
"The Burning of the White House is an original story about James and Dolley Madison's slave Paul Jennings and the 1814 burning of the White House by the British. Norman L. Berman Norman L. Berman (born March 19, 1949) is an American theater composer, arranger and director. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Berman served as composer-in-Residence at the celebrated Circle Repertory Company. He composed music scores for over 20 plays there ranging from premieres by Tennessee Williams, Lanford Wilson, Marsha Norman and Paul Zindel to Shakespearean and Chekhovian classics. At Circle Repertory Company he worked with various distinguished directors and"
"Norman McKinnel Norman McKinnel (10 February 1870 – 29 March 1932) was a Scottish stage and film actor and playwright, active from the 1890s until his death. He appeared in many stage roles in the UK and overseas as well as featuring in a number of films, the best known of which is Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 production ""Downhill"". His surname was sometimes mistranscribed as McKinnell. McKinnel was born in 1870 at Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbrightshire (since incorporated into Dumfries) and originally intended to follow his father into the engineering business before deciding to enter the acting profession. As a playwright he is"
"& Martin's Laugh-In"" purchased the film rights to the play in 1970 and a film adaptation (""Norman... Is That You?"") was released in 1976. The film version stars Redd Foxx and Pearl Bailey. Norman, Is That You? Norman, Is That You? is a 1970 play in two acts by American playwrights Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick about a Jewish couple coming to terms with their son's homosexuality. The work is notably the first play written by both writers. After 19 preview performances, the play officially opened on Broadway on February 19, 1970 at the Lyceum Theatre. It closed after only"
"making Alan Ayckbourn rich and earning him a congratulatory telegram from Noël Coward. This was not quite the end of Ayckbourn's hit-and-miss record, because his following play, ""The Sparrow"" only ran for three weeks at Scarborough. However, the following play, ""How the Other Half Loves"", secured his runaway success as a playwright. The height of Ayckbourn's commercial success included ""Absurd Person Singular"" (1975), ""The Norman Conquests"" trilogy (1973), ""Bedroom Farce"" (1975) and ""Just Between Ourselves"" (1976), all plays that focused heavily on marriage in the British middle classes. The only failure during this period was a 1975 musical with Andrew"
"She Stoops to Conquer She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by the Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in the English-speaking world. It is one of the few plays from the 18th century to have retained its appeal and is regularly performed. The play has been adapted into a film several times, including in 1914 and 1923. Initially the play was titled ""Mistakes of a Night"" and the events within the play take place in one long night. In 1778, John O'Keeffe"
"of no comedy for many years that has so much exhilarated an audience that it has answered so much the great end of comedy – making an audience merry"". There have been a number of film and television adaptations of the play over the years: The play was adapted as an opera by George Macfarren. She Stoops to Conquer She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by the Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in the English-speaking world. It is one of the"
"Longley, in the 1960s. Ciarán Carson's poem ""Belfast Confetti"", about the aftermath of an IRA bomb, won ""The Irish Times"" Irish Literature Prize for Poetry in 1990. The most significant dramatist from Northern Ireland is Brian Friel (1929– ), from Omagh, County Tyrone, hailed by the English-speaking world as an ""Irish Chekhov"", and ""the universally accented voice of Ireland"". Friel is best known for plays such as ""Philadelphia, Here I Come!"" and ""Dancing at Lughnasa"" but has written more than thirty plays in a six-decade spanning career that has seen him elected Saoi of Aosdána. His plays have been a"
"Butterfly"", ""Spring Awakening"", and ""The Book of Mormon"". The Glencairn Plays, all of which feature characters on the fictional ship ""Glencairn""—filmed together as ""The Long Voyage Home"": Other one-act plays include: Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The drama ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" is often numbered on the short list of the"
"Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The drama ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" is often numbered on the short list of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" and Arthur Miller's ""Death of a Salesman"". O'Neill's plays were among the first to include speeches in"
"(1973), ""The Best of Enemies"" (1976), ""Sister Dora"" (1977), and ""Star Over Bethlehem"" (1981). <br> <br> Christopher Fry Christopher Fry (18 December 1907 – 30 June 2005) was an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably ""The Lady's Not for Burning"", which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s. Fry was born as Arthur Hammond Harris in Bristol, the son of Charles John Harris, a master builder who retired early to work full-time as a licensed Lay Reader in the Church of England, and his wife Emma Marguerite Fry"
"in 1978. The play concerns a travelling circus and its star attraction, Siamese twins. Her next play, ""'night, Mother"", would turn out to be her best-known work, given its Broadway success and its star-powered film version. ""'night, Mother"" brought Norman a great deal of recognition. The play, dealing frankly with the subject of suicide, won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Hull-Warriner, and the Drama Desk Award. However, her follow-up play, ""Traveller in the Dark"" received scathing reviews from the New York critics, some of whom were as blunt to say"
"adaptation of the same name received critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for best picture. Cavalcade (play) Cavalcade is a play by Noël Coward with songs by Coward and others. It focuses on three decades in the life of the Marryots, a quintessential British family, and their servants, beginning in 1900 and ends on New Year's Eve in 1929 and is set against major historical events of the period, including the Relief of Mafeking; the death of Queen Victoria; the sinking of the Titanic; and the First World War. The popular songs at the time of each event were"