"A Thousand Acres (film) A Thousand Acres is a 1997 American drama film directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Robards. It is an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Jane Smiley, which itself is a reworking of William Shakespeare's ""King Lear"". The character of Larry Cook corresponds to the title character of that play, while the characters of Ginny, Rose and Caroline represent Lear's daughters Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. The dramatic catalyst in both works is the division of the father's estate among his three offspring,"
"Despite the leisurely Waltons-style voice-over, Larry Cook and his kin don't convince as a Midwestern farming dynasty, while the film itself has only a picturesque sense of the land. It makes for rocky terrain on which to base the ensuing melodramatics."" Jessica Lange was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama, but lost to Judi Dench in ""Mrs. Brown"". A Thousand Acres (film) A Thousand Acres is a 1997 American drama film directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Robards. It is an adaptation of the"
"The film ended up taking six weeks to shoot in Melbourne during the winter of 1990. The success of ""Proof"" allowed Moorhouse to get bigger and better opportunities. She followed up that film with her first ""Hollywood blockbuster"" with ""How to Make an American Quilt"" (1995). The film had a talented cast which featured Anne Bancroft, Winona Ryder, Kate Nelligan, Dermot Mulroney, and Alfre Woodard. The film was met with mixed reviews. Her next feature film was ""A Thousand Acres"" (1997). It was an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Jane Smiley. The film is about the relationship between"
"Part 1""; ""The Comedy of Errors""; and ""The Winter's Tale"". In Staunton, the ASC constructed the Blackfriars Playhouse, the first modern re-creation of Shakespeare's original indoor theatre, the Blackfriars Theatre. As no reliable plans of that theatre are known, architect Tom McLaughlin based the design on plans for other 17th-century theatres, his own trips to England to view surviving halls of the period, Shakespeare's stage directions and other research and consultation. The chosen dimensions of by were derived from the research of theatre historian Irwin Smith. Construction began on the playhouse in early 2000, as part of a three-building construction"
"to adapting Shakespeare, choosing the play ""King Lear"" for his 1985 film ""Ran"", and again moving the setting to feudal Japan. ""Throne of Blood"" is also referenced in the anime film ""Millennium Actress"" (2001) in the form of the Forest Spirit/Witch. It was adapted for the stage by director Ping Chong, premiering at the 2010 Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. Throne of Blood As with the play, the film tells the story of a warrior who assassinates his sovereign at the urging of his ambitious wife. Kurosawa was a fan of the play and intended to make his own"
"were by George Jenkins, and costumes were by Ruth Morley. The play received two 1963 Tony Award nominations: Featured Actor in a Play (Barry Gordon) and Best Play, and Sandy Dennis won the Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Play. Walter Kerr, in his review for the ""New York Herald Tribune"", wrote of Sandy Dennis: ""Let me tell you about Sandy Dennis. There should be one in every home."" A Thousand Clowns A Thousand Clowns is a 1965 American comedy-drama film directed by Fred Coe and starring Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam, and Barry Gordon. An adaptation of"
"American Shakespeare Center The American Shakespeare Center (ASC) is a regional theatre company located in Staunton, Virginia, that focuses on the plays of William Shakespeare; his contemporaries Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Christopher Marlowe; and works related to Shakespeare, like James Goldman's ""The Lion in Winter"" and Bob Carlton's ""Return to the Forbidden Planet."" The ASC is notable for its theatre, the Blackfriars Playhouse, the world's first recreation of the original indoor Blackfriars Theatre in London that was demolished in 1655. As a theater company, the ASC hosts performances by two rotating ensembles of 16 different titles in 5 distinct"
"Edward Lionheart, who regards himself as the finest Shakespearean actor of all time. When he fails to be awarded the prestigious Critic's Circle Award for Best Actor, he sets about exacting bloody revenge on the critics who gave him poor reviews, with each act inspired by a death in a Shakespeare play. One such act of revenge involves the critic Meredith Merridew (played by Robert Morley). Lionheart abducts Merridew's prized poodles, and bakes them in a pie, which he then feeds to Merridew, before revealing all and force-feeding the critic until he chokes to death. A 1997 straight-to-video adaptation, which"
"undermining the play's original ending and its lesson concerning the price of peace. Todd McCarthy, in Variety, summed up: ""as irritating and glib as some of it may be, there is indisputably a strong vision here that has been worked out in considerable detail."" As Zeffirelli's version had done before it, Baz Luhrmann's film broke the record for the highest-grossing Shakespeare film of all time, taking $144m worldwide. Film scholar Douglas Brode claims that ""Romeo and Juliet"" is the most-filmed play of all time. In the silent era it was filmed by Georges Méliès, which inspired a burlesque by Thomas"
"updated the setting to the 1930s but changed none of Shakespeare's dialogue. Shakespeare in performance Thousands (perhaps even millions) of performances of William Shakespeare's plays have been staged since the end of the 16th century. While Shakespeare was alive, many of his greatest plays were performed by the Lord Chamberlain's Men and King's Men acting companies at the Globe and Blackfriars Theatres. Among the actors of these original performances were Richard Burbage (who played the title role in the first performances of ""Hamlet"", ""Othello"", ""Richard III"" and ""King Lear""), Richard Cowley, and William Kempe. Shakespeare's plays continued to be staged"
"more than 30 Shakespeare titles and over 18 period classics by the likes of Aristophanes, Shaw, Aphra Behn, Jean Racine, Christopher Marlowe, Jean Anouilh, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Niccolò Machiavelli, Albert Camus, Jean Genet, Tennessee Williams, Molière, Bertolt Brecht, Jean Cocteau, and Thornton Wilder. In 1995, The Atlanta Shakespeare Company was the first American company to perform on the stage of Shakespeare's Globe in London, England. After a $1.6 million renovation and expansion, The Atlanta Shakespeare Company opened The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse on October 15, 1999. Complete with a Globe-inspired balcony, the renovated Tavern created an even more active Elizabethan actor/audience dynamic."
"Jocelyn Moorhouse Jocelyn Denise Moorhouse (born 4 September 1960) is an Australian writer and film director. She has directed films such as ""Proof"", ""How to Make an American Quilt"" and ""A Thousand Acres"". Moorhouse has produced some of her husband, film director P. J. Hogan's films: ""Muriel's Wedding"" and 2012's ""Mental"". In 2012, Moorhouse directed her first play ""Sex with Strangers"" for the Sydney Theatre Company. In October 2014, she started filming ""The Dressmaker"", with Kate Winslet and Judy Davis. Moorhouse was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Moorhouse did her HSC year in 1978 at Vermont High School where her"
"recognition of her creative work. Her plays include ""Journey to the West"", ""The Odyssey"", ""The Arabian Nights"", ""The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci"", and ""Eleven Rooms of Proust"". She also co-wrote and directed ""Galileo Galilei."" She has twice directed for the New York Shakespeare Festival in the Park. In 2002 she won the Tony Award for Best Director for the Broadway production of ""Metamorphoses"". ""Metamorphoses"" was Zimmerman's first Broadway production. Metamorphoses (play) Metamorphoses is a play by the American playwright and director Mary Zimmerman, adapted from the classic Ovid poem ""Metamorphoses"". The play premiered in 1996 as ""Six Myths"" at"
"movie adaptation. The play was revived in 1996 and 2001. Both the 1962 play and the movie starred Jason Robards, Jr. as Murray Burns, a charming, unemployed children's show writer, who is forced to choose between social conformity and the probable loss of custody of his 11-year-old nephew to the Child Welfare Bureau. The Robards character was in part based on Gardner's friend at that time, humorist Jean Shepherd. In 2000, Robards wrote: I feel ""A Thousand Clowns"" is his masterpiece. It is a real human comedy of poignancy and laughter, with all of humanity's foibles and eccentricities. There is"
"Cities, Charles Dickens. Sea of Grass, Conrad Richter. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë. The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Une vie, Guy de Maupassant. Lust for Life, Irving Stone. Bhowani Junction John Masters. Captain Caution, Kenneth Roberts. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy. Tamburlaine, Christopher Marlowe. A Doll's House, Ibsen. Justice, John Galsworthy. La Mort de Tintagiles, Maurice Maeterlinck. Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare. Macbeth, William Shakespeare. Othello, William Shakespeare. Hamlet, William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare. The Duel (Alexander Pushkin), The Bet, The Kiss (Anton Chekhov), The Shirts (Carl Capek), The Horse-Dealer's Daughter, The Prussian Officer (D. H. Lawrence), The"
"the category of Bedrock Institutions. American Shakespeare Center The American Shakespeare Center (ASC) is a regional theatre company located in Staunton, Virginia, that focuses on the plays of William Shakespeare; his contemporaries Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Christopher Marlowe; and works related to Shakespeare, like James Goldman's ""The Lion in Winter"" and Bob Carlton's ""Return to the Forbidden Planet."" The ASC is notable for its theatre, the Blackfriars Playhouse, the world's first recreation of the original indoor Blackfriars Theatre in London that was demolished in 1655. As a theater company, the ASC hosts performances by two rotating ensembles of 16"
"""An Ideal Husband"" (1992) and ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (2004) saw notable revivals, and the Royal Shakespeare Company and others have brought several Shakespeare and classic play revivals to the theatre in recent decades. The 2007 production of ""Equus"" attracted considerable press for the nude appearance of 17-year-old Daniel Radcliffe, who was still filming the ""Harry Potter"" films. The production was successful enough to transfer to Broadway and ran to 2009 there. Musicals returned in 2009 with a transfer of ""Avenue Q"", and then a transfer from Broadway of ""Hair"" the next year, followed by the West End"
"productions of Shakespeare's plays often reflect the world in which they are performed as much as the world for which they were written: and the Moscow theatre scene in 1994 provided an example, when two very different productions of the play (those by Sergei Zhonovach and Alexei Borodin), very different from one another in their style and outlook, were both reflections on the break-up of the Soviet Union. In 2002 and 2010, the Hudson Shakespeare Company of New Jersey staged separate productions as part of their respective Shakespeare in the Parks seasons. The 2002 version was directed by Michael Collins"
"Trigorin ""Clockwatching"", Orange Tree Theatre (2001) Duncan ""The Daughter in Law"", Orange Tree Theatre (2001) Joe ""Macbeth"", Orange Tree Theatre (1998) Macduff ""All in the Wrong"", Orange Tree Theatre (1998) Beverley ""The Thickness of Skin"", Wolsey Theatre (1997) Eddie ""The Cherry Orchard"", Royal Shakespeare Company (1997) Yasha ""Disappeared"", Leicester Haymarket Theatre (1995) Timothy Creighton ""The Case of Rebellious Susan"", Orange Tree Theatre (1994) Lucien ""Hamlet"", Greenwich Studio Theatre (1993) Hamlet Writer ""Two Feet"" (in progress) co-written with Mark Roper ""Skin Trade (film)"" (2015) co-written with Dolph Lundgren ""Land of Morning Calm"" Steven Elder Steven Elder (born Steven William Thomas Lawrence)"
"Metamorphoses (play) Metamorphoses is a play by the American playwright and director Mary Zimmerman, adapted from the classic Ovid poem ""Metamorphoses"". The play premiered in 1996 as ""Six Myths"" at Northwestern University and later the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago. The play opened off-Broadway in October 2001 at the Second Stage Theatre. It transferred to Broadway on 21 February 2002 at the Circle in the Square Theatre. That year it won several Tony Awards. It was revived at the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago on 19 September 2012 and was produced in Washington, DC at the Arena Stage in 2013."
"Day"" (1996), ""A Thousand Acres"" (1997) and ""The Deep End of the Ocean"" (1998). She served as an executive producer and starred as the divorced single mother architect Melanie Parker in the romantic comedy ""One Fine Day"" (1996) with George Clooney, Subsequent performances included Rose Cook Lewis in the film adaptation of Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ""A Thousand Acres"" (1997) with Jessica Lange and Jennifer Jason Leigh; Beth Cappadora in ""The Deep End of the Ocean"" (1998) about a married couple who found their son who was kidnapped nine years ago; Titania the Queen of the Fairies in ""A"
"everything in reverse. National Players is now in its 68th year of touring. This year's productions are Shakespeare's ""Hamlet,"" a stage adaptation of John Steinbeck's ""The Grapes of Wrath,"" and an adaptation by Eric Coble of Lois Lowry's ""The Giver"". Tour 67: Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" and ""Julius Caesar""; Benjamin Kingsland's adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel ""A Tale of Two Cities"" Tour 66: Shakespeare's ""As You Like It"" and ""The Tempest""; Christopher Sergel's adaptation of Harper Lee's novel ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" Tour 65:Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"" and ""Comedy of Errors""; an adaptation of Homer's ""Odyssey"" The National Players have received"
"acclaim, especially that of Bujold. Bujold remains the only actress ever nominated for an Oscar for playing Anne Boleyn. Anne of the Thousand Days Anne of the Thousand Days is a 1969 British costume drama made by Hal Wallis Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Charles Jarrott and produced by Hal B. Wallis. The film tells the story of Anne Boleyn. The screenplay is an adaptation by Bridget Boland, John Hale and Richard Sokolove of the 1948 play by Maxwell Anderson. Anderson employed blank verse for parts of his play, but most examples of this were"
"1989, and follows the events in ""The Merchant of Venice"". In this play Shylock gets his wealth back and becomes a Jew again. The ""Star Trek"" franchise sometimes quote and paraphrase Shakespeare, including ""The Merchant of Venice"". One example is the Shakespeare-aficionado Chang in """" (1991), a Klingon, who quotes Shylock. Steven Spielberg's ""Schindler's List"" (1993) depicts SS Lieutenant Amon Göth quoting Shylock's ""Hath Not a Jew eyes?"" speech when deciding whether or not to rape his Jewish maid. In David Fincher's 1995 crime thriller ""Seven"", a lawyer, Eli Gould, is coerced to remove a pound of his own flesh"
"2007 Rob Ashford succeeded Hodge. For its revivals of foreign plays, the company regularly commissioned new translations or versions, including Ibsen's ""The Wild Duck"" (David Eldridge), Racine's ""Phaedra"" (Frank McGuinness), Dario Fo's ""Accidental Death of An Anarchist"" (Simon Nye) and Strindberg's ""Creditors"" (David Greig). Its musical productions included ""Grand Hotel"" and the Stephen Sondheim works, ""Pacific Overtures"", ""Merrily We Roll Along"", ""Company"", ""Into the Woods"" and the 1992 production of ""Assassins"" that opened Sam Mendes' tenure as Artistic Director. Under the umbrella of Warehouse Productions, the theatre sometimes opened shows in the West End. Including 1999's ""Suddenly Last Summer"" and"
"British Library, MS Egerton 1994 MS. Egerton 1994 is a manuscript collection of English Renaissance plays, now in the Egerton Collection of the British Library. Probably prepared by the actor William Cartwright around 1642, and later presented by him to Dulwich College, the collection contains unique copies of several Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline dramas, including significant works like ""Edmund Ironside"" and ""Thomas of Woodstock"". The collection contains fourteen plays and an anonymous masque: ""Thomas of Woodstock"" was one of Shakespeare's sources for his ""Richard II"", and ""Edmund Ironside"" has been attributed to Shakespeare by some commentators. Some of the plays,"
"two other works by Angela Carter: ""The Bloody Chamber"" and ""Nights at the Circus"". Throughout the novel, there are numerous references to the works and impact of William Shakespeare. At the beginning of the novel there are three quotations, two of which allude to Shakespeare: """"Brush Up on Your Shakespeare"""", a song title from the musical ""Kiss Me, Kate"" based on Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"", and the quote ""How many times Shakespeare draws fathers and daughters, never mothers and daughters"" by Ellen Terry, an English stage actress. In an interview on the subject of ""Wise Children"", Angela Carter"
"the Bronze Award in Tokyo, and the Critics Award in São Paulo. ""Proof"" also enabled Moorhouse to win the Sutherland Trophy at the British Film Institute Awards. Moorhouse also won an Australian Film Institute Award for best film for ""Muriel's Wedding"". Jocelyn Moorhouse Jocelyn Denise Moorhouse (born 4 September 1960) is an Australian writer and film director. She has directed films such as ""Proof"", ""How to Make an American Quilt"" and ""A Thousand Acres"". Moorhouse has produced some of her husband, film director P. J. Hogan's films: ""Muriel's Wedding"" and 2012's ""Mental"". In 2012, Moorhouse directed her first play ""Sex"
"Marlowe's ""The Passionate Shepherd To His Love"", a poem actually written a century after the events depicted in the play. Richard III (1995 film) Richard III is a 1995 British drama film adapted from William Shakespeare's play of the same name, starring Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, John Wood, and Dominic West. The film sets the play in 1930s Britain with Richard as a fascist sympathiser plotting to usurp the throne. In late 1930s England, a chaotic and bloody civil war ends with Lancastrian King Henry and his son"
"circus-driven re-imaginings of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland in ""Lookingglass Alice"" and Herman Melville's ""Moby Dick."" Other productions have included David Schwimmer's adaptations of Upton Sinclair's ""The Jungle"" and Studs Terkel's ""Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession."" Recent productions include Jules Verne's ""20,000 Leagues Under the Seas,"" adapted by David Kersnar and Althos Low; ""Plantation!"", a play about reparations, written by Ensemble Member Kevin Douglas and directed by Ensemble Member David Schwimmer; ""Beyond Caring,"" created by British author and director Alexander Zeldin. Currently, Lookingglass is led by Artistic Director, Heidi Stillman, and Executive Director,"
"by ""Hamlet"" as well as various traditional African myths, and 2001's "" O"" was based on ""Othello"". Film adaptations of Shakespeare's works in languages other than English are numerous, including Akira Kurosawa's films ""Throne of Blood"" (1957, an epic film version of ""Macbeth""), "" The Bad Sleep Well"" (1960, inspired by ""Hamlet"") and ""Ran"" (1985, based on ""King Lear""); and Vishal Bhardwaj's ""Shakespearean trilogy"" consisting of "" Haider"" (2014, a retelling of ""Hamlet""), ""Omkara"" (2006, based on ""Othello"") and ""Maqbool"" (2003, based on ""Macbeth""). Another way in which Shakespearean texts have been incorporated in films is to feature characters who"
"1996 she was a Professor of English at Iowa State University, teaching undergraduate and graduate creative writing workshops. In 1996, she relocated to California. She returned to teaching creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, in 2015. Smiley published her first novel, ""Barn Blind"", in 1980, and won a 1985 O. Henry Award for her short story ""Lily"", which was published in ""The Atlantic Monthly"". Her best-selling ""A Thousand Acres"", a story based on William Shakespeare's ""King Lear"", received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992. It was adapted into a film of the same title in 1997. Her"
"existence include ""The Doctor's Dilemma"" (George Bernard Shaw), ""The Master Builder"" (Henrik Ibsen), ""Story of a Soldier"" (music drama, Igor Stravinsky), ""Six Characters in Search of an Author"" (Luigi Pirandello), ""The Mother of Us All"" (opera, Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein), ""Measure for Measure"" (William Shakespeare), ""Livin' the Life"" (musical based on Mark Twain's Mississippi River tales), ""The Good Woman of Szechuan"" (Bertolt Brecht), ""The Taming of the Shrew"" (William Shakespeare), and Anna Christie (Eugene O'Neill). Houghton, frustrated by the role of theatrical producer because it precluded him from directing, left the Phoenix to become a professor at Vassar College,"