The Real Inspector. Hound (1968) and Jumpers (1972) are plays written by whom?
"The Real Inspector Hound The Real Inspector Hound is a short, one-act play by Tom Stoppard. The plot follows two theatre critics named Moon and Birdboot who are watching a ludicrous setup of a country house murder mystery, in the style of a whodunit. By chance, they become involved in the action causing a series of events that parallel the play they are watching. The play was written between 1961 and 1962, drawing on Stoppard's experiences as a Bristol theatre critic. It was initially named ""The Stand-ins"" and later, ""The Critics"". It is a parody of the stereotypical parlor mystery"
"his left earlobe with right hand or leaning over his desk as if he is doing intellectual press-ups is very funny to watch or that he is brilliant at displaying cuckolded curiosity."" Harold Hobson, the drama critic, thought that failing to enjoy the play was ""not actually a criminal offence but it is a sad evidence of illiteracy"". ""Jumpers"" won the ""Evening Standard"" 's Best Play Award which, much to Hordern's amusement, was presented by the philosopher A. J. Ayer. In June 1973 Hordern appeared on radio for the BBC as Jeeves in an adaption of P.G. Wodehouse's ""Jeeves"" stories,"
"Drama, Play with music] The Lieutenant of Inishmore [Original, Play, Comedy, Satire] The Good Body [Original, Play, Solo] Ma Rainey's Black Bottom [Revival, Play, Drama] The Crucible [Revival, Play, Drama] Hedda Gabler [Revival, Play, Drama] Kat and the Kings [Original, Musical, Comedy] The Diary of Anne Frank [Revival, Play, Drama] Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 [Original, Play, Solo] The 39 Steps [Original, Play, Comedy] The Beebo Brinker Chronicles [Original, Play, Drama] Family Secrets [Original, Play, Solo] Shockheaded Peter [Original, Musical, Comedy] Necessary Targets [Original, Play, Drama] Communicating Doors [Original, Play, Drama] Bunny Bunny [Original, Play, Comedy] STOMP [Original, Instrumental] Edith Stein"
"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,"
"Kin"" (1974), by John Hopkins; ""Blithe Spirit"" (1976), by Noël Coward; ""The Innocents"" (1976), by William Archibald; ""Circe and Bravo"" (1986), by Donald Freed; ""Taking Sides"" (1995), by Ronald Harwood; and ""Twelve Angry Men"" (1996), by Reginald Rose. Pinter was the author of 29 plays and 15 dramatic sketches and the co-author of two works for stage and radio. He was considered to have been one of the most influential modern British dramatists, Along with the 1967 Tony Award for Best Play for ""The Homecoming"" and several other American awards and award nominations, he and his plays received many awards"
"in 1828. He wrote 25 plays, the most famous of which are ""A Doll's House"" (1879), ""Ghosts"" (1881), ""The Wild Duck"" (1884), and ""Hedda Gabler"" (1890). ""A Doll's House"" and ""Ghosts"" shocked conservatives: Nora's departure in ""A Doll's House"" was viewed as an attack on family and home, while the allusions to venereal disease and sexual misconduct in ""Ghosts"" were considered deeply offensive to standards of public decency. Ibsen refined Scribe's well-made play formula to make it more fitting to the realistic style. He provided a model for writers of the realistic school. In addition, his works ""Rosmersholm"" (1886) and"
"(1979), ""The Toy"" (1982), ""Teachers"" (1984), ""Howard the Duck"" (1986), ""Ferris Bueller's Day Off"" (1986), ""Beethoven's 2nd"" (1993) and ""What's Love Got to Do with It"" (1993). Capers founded the Lafayette Players, a Los Angeles repertory theatre company for African-American performers. She was the recipient of the National Black Theatre Festival Living Legend Award, the Paul Robeson Pioneer Award, and the NAACP Image Award for theatre excellence. Capers provided the narration for the adventure game """". Capers died on May 6, 2004, of complications from pneumonia in Los Angeles, California, aged 78. Virginia Capers Eliza Capers (September 22, 1925 –"
"Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train is a play written by Stephen Adly Guirgis. The play takes place in a prison on Rikers Island in New York. Angel Cruz and Lucius Jenkins face murder charges. The play premiered Off-Broadway at the East 13th Street Theatre in a production by LAByrinth Theater Company on November 29, 2000 and ran to December 31, 2000. The play was directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. The original cast includes Salvatore Inzerillo, John Ortiz, and David Zayas, Ron Cephas Jones, and Elizabeth Canavan. The play was produced in London at the Donmar"
"Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include ""The Birthday Party"" (1957), ""The Homecoming"" (1964), and ""Betrayal"" (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include ""The Servant"" (1963), ""The Go-Between"" (1971), ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1981), ""The Trial"" (1993), and ""Sleuth"" (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and"
"since Grieg embellished ""Peer Gynt"""". Wilkinson subsequently wrote the incidental music to Shaffer's play ""Equus"" (1973). Other National Theatre productions for which Wilkinson wrote incidental music included Tom Stoppard's plays ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"" (1967) and ""Jumpers"" (its premiere production, 1972). He also taught at the Royal Court Theatre studio, under the directorship of Keith Johnstone, from the autumn of 1964. Through his work at the National Theatre Wilkinson met Piers Haggard, who was working as an assistant director: the two worked together on the National Theatre production ""The Dutch Courtesan"" (1964). Having directed several TV dramas, Haggard was"
"Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. As one of the founders of Modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as ""the father of realism"" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include ""Brand"", ""Peer Gynt"", ""An Enemy of the People"", ""Emperor and Galilean"", ""A Doll's House"", ""Hedda Gabler"", ""Ghosts"", ""The Wild Duck"", ""When We Dead Awaken"", ""Pillars of Society"", ""The Lady from the Sea"", ""Rosmersholm"", ""The Master Builder"", and ""John Gabriel Borkman"". He is the most frequently"
"wrote ""Scapin"", a 1997 play adapted from the original by Molière. His books include ""Elementary Education"" and ""Vertigo Park and Other Tall Tales"", as well as two novels, ""Getting Over Homer"" and ""Let Nothing You Dismay"". He contributed to all three issues of George Meyer's ""Army Man"", as well as to ""The New Yorker"", ""The New York Times"", ""The Atlantic"" and ""Spy"". A 1980 article he wrote for ""Esquire"", ""O'Donnell's Laws of Cartoon Motion,"" was both widely quoted (""1. Anybody suspended in space will remain suspended in space until made aware of its situation"") and widely circulated by fans of"
"Ronnie Barker Ronald William George Barker, (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor, comedian and writer. He was known for roles in British comedy television series such as ""Porridge"", ""The Two Ronnies"", and ""Open All Hours"". Barker began acting in repertory theatre and decided he was best suited to comic roles. He had his first success at the Oxford Playhouse and in roles in the West End including Tom Stoppard's ""The Real Inspector Hound"". During this period, he was in the cast of BBC radio and television comedies such as ""The Navy Lark"". He got his"
"Nuts (play) Nuts is a 1979 play by Tom Topor. The play is a courtroom drama, suspense, and psychological drama — and explores sexual abuse issues, family and social power dynamics, and aspects of the criminal court system. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1987, starring Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfuss. When strong-willed, high-class call girl Claudia Draper is indicted for manslaughter in the first degree after killing a client in self-defense, her mother Rose and stepfather Arthur attempt to have her declared mentally incompetent, which would prevent a trial and cause Claudia to be"
"for an enjoyable and compelling watch"". Creditors (play) Creditors () is a naturalistic tragicomedy by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg. It was written in Swedish during August and September 1888 in Denmark. It was first published in Danish in February 1889 and appeared in Swedish in 1890. It premiered at the Dagmar Theatre in Copenhagen in March 1889. It is seen as one of Strindberg's most powerful plays. Strindberg himself, writing in 1892, described it as his ""most mature work."" In 1891, Strindberg accused Henrik Ibsen of plagiarising the play in his ""Hedda Gabler"" (1890). Strindberg wrote: ""Hedda Gabler is"
"minority playwrights to follow paths prescribed by white institutions"" within his work. Robert O'Hara Robert O'Hara is an African American playwright and director. He has written ""Insurrection: Holding History"" and ""Bootycandy"". ""Insurrection"" is a time traveling play exploring racial and sexual identity. ""Bootycandy"" is a series of comedic scenes primarily following the character of Sutter, a gay African American man growing from adolescence to manhood. It won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Drama. O'Hara was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Growing up, he lived with his mother, who had him when she was seventeen, and his step-father, who moved in"
"Thieves (play) Thieves is a play by Herb Gardner. Its focus is on Martin and Sally Cramer, whose twelve-year marriage is slowly disintegrating. He has become the stuffy headmaster of a fashionable Manhattan private school, while she clings to her dedication to the underprivileged and continues to teach in a ghetto public school. For him, their new high-rise apartment is a sign of their steady upward mobility; she is so unhappy with his need to earn and spend she moves all the antique furniture he has purchased to their first apartment on the Lower East Side. The growing chasm between"
"The Government Inspector The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General (, ""Revizor"", literally: ""Inspector""), is a satirical play by the Russian and Ukrainian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol. Originally published in 1836, the play was revised for an 1842 edition. Based upon an anecdote allegedly recounted to Gogol by Pushkin, the play is a comedy of errors, satirizing human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of Imperial Russia. According to D. S. Mirsky, the play ""is not only supreme in character and dialogue – it is one of the few Russian plays constructed with unerring art from"
"Jules Eckert Goodman Jules Eckert Goodman (November 2, 1876 – July 10, 1962) was an American playwright and author. He was best known for his plays ""The Man Who Came Back"" (1916), ""The Silent Voice"" (1914), ""Chains"" (1923), and a series of plays featuring Potash and Permutter written with Montague Glass. Goodman was born in Gervais, Oregon in 1876. He received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1899 and master's degree from Columbia University in 1901. He was managing editor for four years of ""Current Literature"" and also wrote for ""Outing"" and the ""Dramatic Mirror"". He had his first"
"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"". He has also directed many other plays aside from his own works,"
"Creditors (play) Creditors () is a naturalistic tragicomedy by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg. It was written in Swedish during August and September 1888 in Denmark. It was first published in Danish in February 1889 and appeared in Swedish in 1890. It premiered at the Dagmar Theatre in Copenhagen in March 1889. It is seen as one of Strindberg's most powerful plays. Strindberg himself, writing in 1892, described it as his ""most mature work."" In 1891, Strindberg accused Henrik Ibsen of plagiarising the play in his ""Hedda Gabler"" (1890). Strindberg wrote: ""Hedda Gabler is a bastard of Laura in ""The"
"Murmuring Judges Murmuring Judges, first performed in 1991, is a scathing attack on the British legal system, and the second of a trilogy of plays by David Hare examining Great Britain's most hallowed institutions. The first play in the trilogy, ""Racing Demon"", examines the Church of England, and the third, ""The Absence of War"", examines political parties. ""Murmuring Judges"" takes a three-tiered view of a single instance of British ""justice"": the trial, conviction and appeal process of a dubiously guilty accomplice to a theft and kidnapping attack. The case is examined from the point of view of the police, the"
"famous of which are ""A Doll's House"" (1879), ""Ghosts"" (1881), ""The Wild Duck"" (1884), and ""Hedda Gabler"" (1890). In addition, his works ""Rosmersholm"" (1886) and ""When We Dead Awaken"" (1899) evoke a sense of mysterious forces at work in human destiny, which was to be a major theme of symbolism and the so-called ""Theatre of the Absurd"". After Ibsen, British theatre experienced revitalization with the work of George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, John Galsworthy, William Butler Yeats, and Harley Granville Barker. Unlike most of the gloomy and intensely serious work of their contemporaries, Shaw and Wilde wrote primarily in the"
"Years"", ""Balmoral"" (also known as ""Liberty Hall""), and ""Noises Off"", which critic Frank Rich in his book ""The Hot Seat"" claimed ""is, was, and probably always will be the funniest play written in my lifetime."" His novels include ""Headlong"" (shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize), ""The Tin Men"" (won the 1966 Somerset Maugham Award), ""The Russian Interpreter"" (1967, Hawthornden Prize) ""Towards the End of the Morning"", ""Sweet Dreams"", ""A Landing on the Sun"", ""A Very Private Life"", ""Now You Know"" and ""Skios, long listed for the Man Booker Prize 2012"". His novel, ""Spies"", was long listed for the Man Booker"
"heighten the dramatic tension in his work in the serials ""Pennies from Heaven"" (1978), ""The Singing Detective"" (1986), ""Lipstick on Your Collar"" (1993) and the play ""Cream in My Coffee"" (1980). The theme of sexual abuse is returned to in ""Only Make Believe"" (1973), ""Brimstone and Treacle"" (1976), ""Where Adam Stood"" (1976), ""Blue Remembered Hills"" (1979), ""Blackeyes"" (1989), ""Cold Lazarus"" (1996) and the novel ""Hide and Seek"" (1974). Characters also undergo psychiatric assessment in ""Follow the Yellow Brick Road"" (1972), ""Hide and Seek"" and ""The Singing Detective"". The play was broadcast on ITV on 12 April 1969 and has not"
"An Inspector Calls An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in September 1945 in the Soviet Union and in 1946 in the UK. It is one of Priestley's best known works for the stage, and is considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre. The play's success and reputation has been boosted in recent years by a successful revival by English director Stephen Daldry for the National Theatre in 1992, and a tour of the UK in 2011–2012. The play is a three-act drama, which takes place on"
"Sucker Punch (play) Sucker Punch is a play by the award-winning British playwright Roy Williams. It was first staged in 2010 at the Royal Court Theatre in London. The play was nominated for the Evening Standard Award and the Olivier Award for Best New Play. Set in a run-down London boxing ring in the 1980s, two young black boys, Leon and Troy, are trained by a white trainer, Charlie, who had seen their potential. Troy soon rebels and is ejected from the gym by Charlie; he moves to United States where he gains a boxing reputation. Charlie's daughter and Leon"
"impose his intellectual limitations on the rest of us"". Richard Eyre calls Harrison's 1990 play, ""The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus"" ""among the five most imaginative pieces of drama in the 90s"". Jocelyn Herbert, famous designer of the British theatrical scene, comments that Harrison is aware of the dramatic visual impact of his ideas: ""The idea of satyrs jumping out of boxes in Trackers is wonderful for the stage. Some writers just write and have little idea what it will look like, but Tony always knows exactly what he wants."" Edith Hall has written that she is convinced that Harrison's 1998 film-poem"
"Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery is a play by American playwright Ken Ludwig. It premiered at the Arena Stage in Southwest, Washington, D.C. in January 2015 and was directed by Amanda Dehnert. The play is a humorous adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"". Rehearsals were staged at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey. The play featured two main roles, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, as well as numerous other roles played by only three other actors. Michael Glenn's roles included Daisy scullery maid, Scotland Yard Inspector Lestrade and Sir"
"Johannes.Johannes is also a musician, he is the drummer of Increate. Alaric Jans Alaric ""Rokko"" Jans (born January 27, 1949 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American film and theater composer. Jans co-wrote with James Quinn the music and lyrics of the 1979 musical adaptation of John R. Powers' ""Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?"". Jans, along with William H. Macy and David Kovacs, also participated in the revival of John Stasey's 1964 children's musical, ""The Adventures of Captain Marbles and His Acting Squad"" at David Mamet's St. Nicholas Theatre; he served as the composer and the co-lyricist"
"the play to Hellman after he read a book titled ""Bad Companions"" (1930), a true-crime anthology by William Roughead. It related an incident that took place in 1810 at a school in Edinburgh, Scotland. A student named Jane Cumming accused her schoolmistresses, Jane Pirie and Marianne Woods, of having an affair in the presence of their pupils. Dame Cumming Gordon, the accuser's influential grandmother, advised her friends to remove their daughters from the boarding school. Within days the school was deserted and the two women had lost their livelihood. Pirie and Woods sued and eventually won, both in court and"
"to him playing a leading part in the playwright's new play ""Jumpers"", a comic satire based around the field of academic philosophy. Hordern was to play George Moore, a bumbling old philosophy professor, who is employed at a modern university and who, throughout the play, is in constant debate with himself over his moral values. Hordern, though thinking the play was brilliant, disliked the script on the initial read-through as he did not understand its complex situations and strange dialogue. His co-star would be Diana Rigg, who played Moore's wife Dotty, and the entire piece was to be directed by"
"The Homecoming The Homecoming is a two-act play written in 1964 by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter and it was first published in 1965. Its premières in London (1965) and New York (1967) were both directed by Sir Peter Hall and starred Pinter's first wife, Vivien Merchant, as Ruth. The original Broadway production won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Play. Its 40th-anniversary Broadway production at the Cort Theatre was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award for ""Best Revival of a Play"". Set in North London, the play has six characters. Five of these are men who are related to each"