"The Potting Shed The Potting Shed is a 1957 play by Graham Greene in three acts. The psychological drama centers on a secret held by the Callifer family for nearly thirty years. The patriarch of the family is dying and James, his estranged son, appears unexpectedly. He can remember nothing about a mysterious moment that occurred in the family's potting shed when he was 14 years old. Family members who recall the event are unwilling to describe it to him. With the help of a psychoanalyst, James tries to recall just what happened that day that left him rejected by"
"pleasant aspect over the years but his wife has found a half decent spot where the factories can hardly be seen from the bank. The Broadway production was directed by Carmen Capalbo. It opened on 29 January 1957 at the Bijou Theatre and later moved to the John Golden Theatre to complete its run of 143 performances. Robert Flemyng starred as James Callifer and Sybil Thorndike, Frank Conroy, Leueen MacGrath, Joan Croydon, Lewis Casson, and Carol Lynley were cast in supporting roles. The Potting Shed was first produced in London on 5 February 1958 at the Globe Theatre, directed by"
"Notable for an ability to combine serious literary acclaim with broad popularity, his novels include ""Brighton Rock"" (1938), ""The Power and the Glory"" (1940), ""The Heart of the Matter"" (1948), ""A Burnt-Out Case"" (1961), and ""The Human Factor"" (1978). Other novelists writing in the 1950s and later were: Anthony Powell whose twelve-volume cycle of novels ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", is a comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century; comic novelist Kingsley Amis is best known for his academic satire ""Lucky Jim"" (1954); Nobel Prize"
"Literature. In 1967, Greene was among the final three choices, according to Nobel records unsealed on the 50th anniversary in 2017. The committee also considered Jorge Luis Borges and Miguel Ángel Asturias, with the latter the chosen winner. Greene collected several literary awards for his novels, including the 1941 Hawthornden Prize for ""The Power and the Glory"" and the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for ""The Heart of the Matter"". As an author, he received the 1968 Shakespeare Prize and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize, a biennial literary award given to writers whose works have dealt with themes of human"
"his contemporary Evelyn Waugh stated that the West Africa of that book replaced the true remembered West Africa of his own experience. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked ""The Heart of the Matter"" 40th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2005, the novel was chosen by ""TIME"" magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. Evelyn Waugh also mentioned that he admired the book. The novel was made into a film in 1953, directed by George More O'Ferrall and starring Trevor Howard and Maria Schell,"
"in transition from Victorian to modern times. Lesley Storm Lesley Storm was the pen-name of Mabel Cowie (1898–1975), also known by her married name of Mabel Clark. She was a Scottish writer, who wrote a number of plays, some of which were filmed. ""Black Chiffon"" and ""Roar Like a Dove"" were major hits. She also wrote several screenplays, including ""The Heart of the Matter"" (1953), based on the novel by Graham Greene, and ""The Spanish Gardener"", based on the 1950 novel of the same name by A.J. Cronin. She wrote some novels, the best known was ""Lady, What of Life?"""
"in 1968 as part of ""Wednesday Theatre"". It starred Anne Charleston and Tom Oliver, who later worked together on the TV series ""Neighbours"". The Shifting Heart The Shifting Heart is a play written in 1957 in Australia by Richard Beynon, it is an insight to the psychology of racism and its victims. In the background of 1950s Collingwood, Melbourne. ""The Shifting Heart"" is set in 1956, Collingwood, Melbourne on Christmas Eve. At the time, Collingwood was a poor suburb populated by lower class Australian families and Italian immigrants. The play published in 1960 by Angus & Robertson begins with two"
"The Shifting Heart The Shifting Heart is a play written in 1957 in Australia by Richard Beynon, it is an insight to the psychology of racism and its victims. In the background of 1950s Collingwood, Melbourne. ""The Shifting Heart"" is set in 1956, Collingwood, Melbourne on Christmas Eve. At the time, Collingwood was a poor suburb populated by lower class Australian families and Italian immigrants. The play published in 1960 by Angus & Robertson begins with two pages of stage direction. It describes the home of Italians Mr. & Mrs. Vicenzo Bianchi, the stage is their backyard. On stage left"
"Hearts of Oak (play) Hearts of Oak is an 1879 play by Americans James Herne and David Belasco taken from the British play, ""The Mariner's Compass"", by Henry Leslie (1830–1881). The play is a melodrama concerning a woman who marries her guardian out of gratitude, even though she loves another man. It was extraordinarily successful on tour, starring Belasco, and earning a fortune for him. ""Hearts of Oaks"" first opened as a five act and six tableaux production at the Hamlin's Theatre in Chicago on November 17, 1879. The actress Chrystal Herne was named after the character her mother, Katherine"
"(1939) by William Saroyan; ""Brigadoon"" (1947) by Alan Jay Lerner; ""Regina"" (1949); ""The Happy Time"" (1950); ""An Enemy of the People"" (1950); ""The Grass Harp"" (1952); ""The Teahouse of the August Moon"" (1953), winner of the Tony Award for Best Play and New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Director; ""Witness for the Prosecution"" (1954) from Agatha Christie; ""Mister Johnson"" (1956); ""Jamaica"" (1957); ""The Hidden River"" (1957); ""Handful of Fire"" (1958); ""Chéri"" (1959); ""Kwamina"" (1961); ""Foxy"" (1964); ""Traveller Without Luggage"" (1964); ""On a Clear Day You Can See Forever"" (1965); and ""Harold and Maude"" (1980). By the 1950s, Stanislavski's"
"The Ponder Heart The Ponder Heart is a novella written by Eudora Welty and illustrated by Joe Krush, originally published in ""The New Yorker"" in 1953, and republished by Harcourt Brace in 1954. The plot of ""The Ponder Heart"" follows Daniel Ponder, a wealthy heir, and is told through the narration of Edna Earle Ponder, Daniel's niece. In 1956, the story was made into a Broadway play by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov. Una Merkel won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Edna Earle Ponder in the Broadway play. The novella is"
"tells him to go fetch his things so they can elope; but when he returns, she has the maid bolt the door against him, and turns out the lights. The Heiress (1947 play) The Heiress is a 1947 play by American playwrights Ruth and Augustus Goetz adapted from the 1880 Henry James novel ""Washington Square"". Two years later the play was adapted into the film ""The Heiress"" starring Olivia de Havilland. The play opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre on September 29, 1947 and closed on September 18, 1948 after 410 performances. Directed by Jed Harris the cast starred"
"The Land of Heart's Desire The Land of Heart's Desire is a play by Irish poet, dramatist, and 1923 Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats. First performed in the spring of 1894, at the Avenue Theatre in London, where it ran for a little over six weeks, it was the first professional performance of one of Yeats' plays. In this theatrical lament on age and thwarted aspirations, a faery child encounters the newlyweds Shawn and Mary Bruin at their home, shared with Maurteen Bruin and Bridget Bruin, Shawn's parents. The child, who at first is thought of by the Bruins as"
"be reached by mail at:<br> Vern Sneider Vernon J. Sneider (6 October 1916 – 1 May 1981) was an American novelist perhaps most noted for his 1951 novel ""The Teahouse of the August Moon"", which was later adapted by John Patrick for a Broadway play in 1953, a motion picture in 1956, and the Broadway musical ""Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen"" in 1970. The play ""The Teahouse of the August Moon"" won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1954. His novel ""A Pail of Oysters"", about life during the White Terror by Chinese Nationalists regime in Taiwan, was reissued by Camphor"
"of good intentions in a durably sinful world"". Bibliography The Ponder Heart The Ponder Heart is a novella written by Eudora Welty and illustrated by Joe Krush, originally published in ""The New Yorker"" in 1953, and republished by Harcourt Brace in 1954. The plot of ""The Ponder Heart"" follows Daniel Ponder, a wealthy heir, and is told through the narration of Edna Earle Ponder, Daniel's niece. In 1956, the story was made into a Broadway play by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov. Una Merkel won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Edna"
"jocosities alike . . . for two acts, culminating in a superbly dramatic revelation scene, ""The Potting Shed"", by its writing and storytelling alike, more and more grips and stirs its audience."" It was revived at the Finborough Theatre in early 2011. In 1961, Paul Bogart directed the play for the American television series ""Play of the Week"". Frank Conroy reprised his Broadway role. The cast also included John Baragrey as James Callifer and Ludwig Donath, Ann Harding, Fritz Weaver, and Nancy Wickwire in supporting roles. A 1981 television production of the play was written by Pat Sandys and produced"
"Vern Sneider Vernon J. Sneider (6 October 1916 – 1 May 1981) was an American novelist perhaps most noted for his 1951 novel ""The Teahouse of the August Moon"", which was later adapted by John Patrick for a Broadway play in 1953, a motion picture in 1956, and the Broadway musical ""Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen"" in 1970. The play ""The Teahouse of the August Moon"" won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1954. His novel ""A Pail of Oysters"", about life during the White Terror by Chinese Nationalists regime in Taiwan, was reissued by Camphor Press on February 28, 2016,"
"The Melting Pot (play) The Melting Pot is a play by Israel Zangwill, first staged in 1908. It depicts the life of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, the Quixanos. David Quixano has survived a pogrom, which killed his mother and sister, and he wishes to forget this horrible event. He composes an ""American Symphony"" and wants to look forward to a society free of ethnic divisions and hatred, rather than backward at his traumatic past. David Quixano emigrates to America in the wake of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom in which his entire family is killed. He writes a great symphony"
"the novel ""Murphy"" in 1938. This same year Graham Greene's (1904–91) first major novel ""Brighton Rock"" was published. Then in 1939 James Joyce's published ""Finnegans Wake"". In this work Joyce creates a special language to express the consciousness of a character who is dreaming. Graham Greene was an important novelist whose works span the 1930s to the 1980s. Greene was a convert to Catholicism and his novels explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Notable for an ability to combine serious literary acclaim with broad popularity, his novels include, ""The Heart of the Matter"" (1948), ""A"
"A. R. Gurney Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr. (November 1, 1930 – June 13, 2017), as pen name A. R. Gurney (sometimes credited as Pete Gurney) was an American playwright, novelist and academic. He is known for works including ""The Dining Room"" (1982), ""Sweet Sue"" (1986/7), and ""The Cocktail Hour"" (1988), and for his Pulitzer Prize nominated play ""Love Letters"". His series of plays about upper-class WASP life in contemporary America have been called ""penetratingly witty studies of the WASP ascendancy in retreat."" Gurney was born on November 1, 1930 in Buffalo, New York to Albert Ramsdell Gurney, Sr. (1896-1977), who"
"researchers and scholars. Pinter satirises academics or intellectual ""distance"" in several of his plays, beginning with his character Edward, a scholarly writer, in ""A Slight Ache"" (1959) and continuing with Teddy, an English philosophy professor in an American university who refuses to become ""lost in it"", in ""The Homecoming"" (1965), and Devlin, an English academic, in ""Ashes to Ashes"" (1996). Harold Pinter and academia Harold Pinter and academia concerns academic recognition of and scholarship pertaining to Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (1930–2008), English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet, author, political activist, and the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, at the time"
"Indiana University at Bloomington; the Mandeville Special Collections Library, Geisel Library, at the University of California, San Diego; the British Film Institute, in London; and the Margaret Herrick Library, Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California. 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"
"in 1947; and ""Timon of Athens"" in 1948. The classical scholar William Francis Jackson Knight (1895–1964), of whom he wrote a biography, was his brother. Knight was a believer in spiritualism and was a vice-president for the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain. G. Wilson Knight George Richard Wilson Knight (1897–1985) was an English literary critic and academic, known particularly for his interpretation of mythic content in literature, and ""The Wheel of Fire"", a collection of essays on Shakespeare's plays. He was also an actor and theatrical director, and considered an outstanding lecturer. He was educated at Dean Close School and"
"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"
"The Astonished Heart (film) The Astonished Heart is a 1950 British drama film directed by Terence Fisher. It stars Celia Johnson, Noël Coward, and Margaret Leighton, and is based on Coward's play ""The Astonished Heart"" from his cycle of ten plays, """". Inspired by the great success of the 1945 film ""Brief Encounter"", which also had been adapted from ""Tonight at 8:30"", Coward agreed to have ""The Astonished Heart"" produced as a motion picture. As with the previous film, Coward also wrote the screenplay. Production began in 1949 and featured not only Noël Coward in one of his rare film"
"success and he seemed set to become the major writer of comedies of his day. However, his next few plays were not as successful and Boucicault found himself in debt. He recovered some of his reputation with ""The Corsican Brothers"" (1852), a well constructed melodrama. In 1853, he moved to New York, where he soon became a hit with plays like ""The Poor of New York"" (1857), ""Dot"" (1859, based on Charles Dickens's ""The Cricket on the Hearth"") and ""The Octoroon"" (1859). These plays tackled issues such as urban poverty and slavery. Boucicault was also involved in getting the 1856"
"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"
"The Heiress (1947 play) The Heiress is a 1947 play by American playwrights Ruth and Augustus Goetz adapted from the 1880 Henry James novel ""Washington Square"". Two years later the play was adapted into the film ""The Heiress"" starring Olivia de Havilland. The play opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre on September 29, 1947 and closed on September 18, 1948 after 410 performances. Directed by Jed Harris the cast starred Wendy Hiller, Basil Rathbone, and Peter Cookson. The production then opened in London at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in 1949 starring Ralph Richardson and Peggy Ashcroft and ran for"
"1956, to June 23, 1956. Portraying Edna Earle Ponder, Una Merkel won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance, while Ben Edwards was nominated for a Tony Award for scenic design. The Public Broadcasting Service also adapted the novella to a television film directed by Martha Coolidge as a part of the ""Masterpiece"" series in October 2001. The story received generally positive review from critics; Welty scholar Pearl Amelia McHaney called ""The Ponder Heart"" the ""most positively received of Welty's books"". Charles Poore of the ""New York Times"" called the novel ""a wonderful tragicomedy"
"Irwin Shaw and Budd Schulberg. Featured actors included Martin Balsam, Richard Boone, Marlon Brando, Hume Cronyn, Julie Harris, Jean Muir and Jessica Tandy. Recurring performers included Jocelyn Brando, Tom Ewell, Steven Hill, Kim Hunter and Cloris Leachman. In February 1950, the series moved to Friday nights and was expanded to one hour, alternating every other week with broadcasts of ""Ford Theatre"". In March, the name of the show was changed to ""The Play's the Thing"". The series received a Peabody Award in 1948 for pioneering in the field of televised drama. NOTE: The most frequent time slot for the series"
"play received a production at New York's Metropolitan Playhouse in March 2006. The play was performed at the Finborough Theatre, London, in December 2017. It was the first UK production of ""The Melting Pot"" since 1938. The Melting Pot (play) The Melting Pot is a play by Israel Zangwill, first staged in 1908. It depicts the life of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, the Quixanos. David Quixano has survived a pogrom, which killed his mother and sister, and he wishes to forget this horrible event. He composes an ""American Symphony"" and wants to look forward to a society free of"
"Bolton. In his later years, Bolton wrote four novels, ""Flowers for the Living"" (with Bernard Newman, 1958), ""The Olympians"" (1961), ""The Enchantress ""(1964) and ""Gracious Living"" (1966). ""The Times"" thought his later non-musical stage work notable, including adaptations of works by Somerset Maugham and Sacha Guitry, and his biographical play ""The Shelley Story"" (1947). Another of Bolton's more serious stage works was ""Child of Fortune"" (1956), an adaptation of Henry James's ""The Wings of the Dove"". Bolton was ""a dapper ladies' man, who, having divorced his first wife, became ensnared in a succession of entanglements with chorus girls and singers."""
"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"