Which playwright wrote the plays Heartbreak House, The Devil's Disciple and Back to Methusaleh?
"The Devil's Disciple The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright. It was published in Shaw's 1901 collection ""Three Plays for Puritans"" together with ""Captain Brassbound's Conversion"" and ""Caesar and Cleopatra"". Set in Colonial America during the Revolutionary era, the play tells the story of Richard Dudgeon, a local outcast and self-proclaimed ""Devil's disciple"". In a twist characteristic of Shaw's love of paradox, Dudgeon sacrifices himself"
"from 2004 to 2006 in Islamic Azad University of Art & Architecture. At the same time, he was teaching Basic of Acting as an assistant in University of Tehran's Fine Arts College. He was the teacher of theater-therapy classes held from 1996 to 1999 in Alzahra University and educational workshops about hypnosis and its usage to help children with cancer. 1. Mehr-e-Giah – Play – 1999 – Jahad Daneshgahi 2. All the Children of the Sun – Play – 2000 – Namira Publication 3. Contemporary Iranian Literature – Selected Plays – 2001 – Neyestan Publication 4. Dorj-e-Meshkin – Play –"
"recovery to become ""the Zola of the Occult"". In 1898 he returned to play-writing with ""To Damascus"", which, like ""The Great Highway"" (1909), is a dream-play of spiritual pilgrimage. His ""A Dream Play"" (1902) – with its radical attempt to dramatize the workings of the unconscious by means of an abolition of conventional dramatic time and space and the splitting, doubling, merging, and multiplication of its characters – was an important precursor to both expressionism and surrealism. He also returned to writing historical drama, the genre with which he had begun his play-writing career. He helped to run the Intimate"
"Dudgeon, Tenniel Evans as Anthony Anderson and Lucy Fleming as Judith Anderson. The programme was subsequently re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7, later BBC Radio 4 Extra, in 2009, 2010 and 2011. On 17 May 1987, BBC's ""Theatre Night"" broadcast a production of ""The Devil's Disciple"" with Patrick Stewart as Anthony Anderson, Mike Gwilym as Dick Dudgeon, Susan Wooldridge as Judith Anderson and Ian Richardson as General Burgoyne. The Devil's Disciple The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his"
"that post until 23 June 2012. From 2013 to 2014 he served as Buffett Center Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University. Ismat has directed more than 15 theatrical productions, including interpretations of Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams and Frank Wedekind, as well as producing his own personal vision of ""The Arabian Nights"". He founded the first mime troupe in Damascus and taught mime, acting & directing at the Syrian Academy of Dramatic Arts. There he used to teach the Stanislavsky-based method of acting. His breakthrough as a playwright came with ""The Game of Love & Revolution""; among his best known dramatic works are:"
"The Devil (play) Iblis () is a verse play (verse dram), tragedy in four acts of an Azerbaijani poet and playwright Huseyn Javid, written in 1918. Ideological credo of Javid is revealed in the play, a mysthic flaw is strongly expressed and the poet's thoughts about a problem of human's happiness followed by the imperialistic war are reflected in the poem. Initially the tragedy was staged in 1920, by Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh. It is noted that, at the beginning of the 1920s the play had a great success. “Iblis” is considered as the first verse play of Azerbaijan, which was"
"you are not lucky, you will not get lucky""). The cooperation with Noordin Hassan continued, in particular, in 1994 he took part in staging his play ""This night the tortoise cried."" In 1996, he moved to work as a lecturer to the National Academy of Arts, where he soon headed the theater department. There he staged his new plays ""This is not the end (1996),"" Teja ""(1997),"" Imam ""(1998), and also with the support of the Ministry of Culture, large-scale productions of the old ones - ""The Opera House ""(1988),""King of the fools""(1997),""Siti Zubaidah""(2000) on the stage of the prestigious"
"Theater, as part of The Jerusalem Theater, where he produced experimental and street performances. From 1978 to 1984 he was a dramaturge and director at the Jerusalem Khan Theatre, where he directed his own play ""The princess and the Hobo"", ""Gotcha"" by Barrie Keeffe, and ""Magic Afternoon"" by Wolfgang Bauer. He began writing plays and film scripts in 1984 and moved to Tel Aviv. Since 1986 he has taught playwriting at the Drama School of the Kibbutzim College of Education in Tel Aviv. From 1992 to 2007 he taught political playwriting at Tel Aviv University. In 1992 he wrote his"
"Ismail Khalidi (writer) Ismail Khalidi (; born 1982) is a Palestinian American playwright, poet, director and actor, best known for the plays ""Tennis in Nablus"" (2010) and ""Truth Serum Blues"" (2005). ""Tennis in Nablus"" received two graduate student Kennedy Center Honors in 2008 while he was still at NYU, the ""Mark Twain Comedy Playwriting Award"" and the ""Quest for Peace Playwriting Award."" Khalidi's writing tackles the history of Palestine and the modern Middle East, as well as wider themes of race, colonialism and war. Khalidi was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1982 in the wake of the Israeli invasion but"
"Bernard Shaw's ""Heartbreak House"", which again attracted strong reviews. It premiered April 29, 1938, at the Mercury Theatre and ran for six weeks, closing June 11. Shaw insisted that none of the text be altered or cut, resulting in a longer and more conventional production that limited Welles's creative expression. It was chosen to demonstrate that the Mercury's style did not depend upon extensive revision and elaborate staging. Geraldine Fitzgerald, a fellow member of the Gate Theatre company while Welles was in Dublin, was brought over from Ireland for her American debut as Ellie Dunn. Welles played the octogenarian Captain"
"and fiction. Some writers were first published by Reed when they were students in his writing workshops. Among them are Terry McMillan, Mona Simpson, Mitch Berman, Kathryn Trueblood, Danny Romero, Fae Myenne Ng, Brynn Saito, and John Keene. Reed is one of the producers of ""The Domestic Crusaders"", a two-act play about Muslim Pakistani Americans written by his former student, Wajahat Ali. Its first act was performed at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Hall in Washington, D.C., on November 14, 2010, and remains archived on their website. Critics have also pointed to Reed's influence on writers Percival Everett, Colson Whitehead, Victor"
"departed to Germany in 1893 for six years to study science, child psychology, education, literature and history in the universities of Leipzig, Jena and Munich. Afterwards he returned to Constantinople, where he continued working as a teacher. As an author, he was most renowned for his plays: Hin Astvadsner ('Ancient Gods', 1908), Kaisre ('The Emperor', 1914), Inkads Berdi Ishkhanuhin ('The Princess of the Fallen Castle', 1921), Oshin Payl (1929). He was one of the vice-presidents of the Armenian Parliament during the Republic and led a delegation to Moscow in April 1920 to negotiate with the communist regime. He left Armenia"
"plays such as “Voice of Egypt” (1956) and “The Trap” (1965). In his plays, he discusses serious issues like the problem of national independence in “The Epistles of the Judge of Seville” (1987), and the Palestinian issue in “Fire and Olives” (1970). Some of his works were translated into German and English such as “Ali Janah Al - Tabrizi and his Servant Quffa” (1969) or into English only such as “Marriage on a Divorce Notification” (1973). In addition to being a playwright, he also wrote novels such as “The Story of the Lost Time” (1977) and “The Days and Nights"
"as a writer. Originally, he studied law in his hometown of Budapest and then in Geneva. He eventually left this track to return to his love of journalism. When he was eighteen, he began writing for a Budapest newspaper. His most famous works, both plays and novels, are his earliest works. One of his most successful plays was ""Liliom"" in 1909. In 1945, this play would become the well known Oscar and Hammerstein musical, ""Carousel"". Other famous plays include ""The Devil"" in 1907, ""The Guardsman"" written in 1910 and then translated in 1924, ""The Wolf"" in 1913, and ""The Swan"""
"after its sovietization in 1921, and settled in Paris, Cairo, and eventually in Beirut. He was one of the founders of the Hamazkayin cultural association in Cairo (1928). The next year, he was founding principal of the Nshan Palandjian Djemaran (College), Beirut, from 1929 until his death. One of many authors banned in Armenia for his political views, a volume of his plays was exceptionally published in Soviet Armenia in 1968. Levon Shant is regarded by many as the greatest Armenian playwright. His plays The Emperor and Ancient Gods remain among the most frequently staged Armenian dramas. The latter revolutionized"
"the setting up of the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS), corroborated in Leslie McLoughin’s history of British Arabists in the 20th century ""In a Sea of Knowledge"" (Ithica Press 2002). MECAS had a profound effect on diplomatic relations in the Middle East for decades to come. Frustrated by governmental delays, and in a state of exhaustion, he was invalided back to England. Disillusioned by politics, he turned his mind to writing. His first professional dramatic work appeared at the Chanticleer Theatre in South Kensington (1944). This was followed by a novel, ""Come to Dust"" (Chapman & Hall 1945),"
"Albert Perry as Shotover and Elizabeth Risdon as Ellie Dunn. It was first presented in England on 18 October, 1921, at the Royal Court, with Ellen O'Malley as Ellie and Brember Wills as Shotover. Edith Evans played Lady Utterword. ""Heartbreak House"" is not often performed due to its complex structure; however it is argued that the genius of the play cannot be fully appreciated without seeing it in performance. Its subject-matter is the ignorance and indifference exhibited by the upper and upper-middle classes to the First World War and its consequences. The self-indulgence and lack of understanding of the high-class"
"The Devils (play) The Devils is a play, commissioned by Sir Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company and written by British dramatist John Whiting, based on Aldous Huxley's book, ""The Devils of Loudun"". ""The Devils"" had its first performance at London's Aldwych Theatre in February, 1961, with Dorothy Tutin portraying the deformed and hysterical Sister Jeanne of the Angels, and Richard Johnson as the existential hero, Father Urbain Grandier. Diana Rigg appeared in the supporting role of Philippe and Max Adrian played the zealot exorcist, Father Pierre Barre (Max Adrian himself would go on to appear in the film"
"Abdelhaleem to life in prison. Abdelhaleem is currently located in the Special Handling Unit (SHU) of the Regional Reception Centre in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec. In 2009 and 2010 playwright Catherine Frid wrote a play, Homegrown, about a friendship that developed between herself and Shareef. The play premiered at Theatre Passe Muraille on August 5, 2010. The play stirred controversy because it portrayed Shareef sympathetically. Theatre critic Richard Ouzounian did not recommend the play to the general public. He commented that it was ""Definitely not a play that supports or romanticizes terrorism, but one that raises some interesting questions about the government’s"
"of Iowa, where he taught creative writing and global literature courses for the Between the Lines program. ""The Unbroken Heart"" a play based on the life of the blues singer Ethel Waters was first performed at the Fisher Theatre in Iowa before touring nationally. His plays for MBT included ""A Gift of Glory"", about the Mexican artist Diego Rivera and the Ford family;"" Chagall's Arabian Nights"", a story of Marc Chagall's painting of the Arabian Nights and ""Killing Time"", a play about physician assisted suicide. He also wrote plays that toured local schools and ran theatre workshops for disadvantaged kids"
"was the president of Bonyad-e-Shahnameh, an institution devoted to the preservation of the authenticity of Ferdowsi's epic poem. He is also known for his excellent translations of English texts into Persian. Amongst his many translations of plays are Tennessee Williams' ""Glass Menagerie"" and August Strindberg's ""The Father"" both of which he staged and directed. Furthermore, he translated Henrik Ibsen's plays, ""A Doll's House"" and ""Ghost"". Another translation related to the Theater is Lajos Egri's ""The Art of Dramatic Writing"". He also translated Aaron Copland's ""What to Listen for in Music"", and ""Men of Music"" by Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock."
"in Anton Chekhov's short story ""The Grasshopper"" (1892), and continued to write under that name throughout his career. He emigrated to the United States in 1913, at the invitation of Yiddish actor and theatre director Boris Thomashefsky, and subsequently became known for his contributions to Yiddish theatre. Among his most popular plays are ""Yoshke Musikant"" (Yoshke the musician; 1914) and ""Bronx Express"" (1919). The latter play had its premiere in 1919 in a Yiddish translation, at the Jewish Art theatre of Jacob Ben-Ami; it was later translated into English and performed at the Astor Theatre on Broadway, in 1922, to"
"ideology, and today form his lasting legacy. Through the 1970s three of his plays; ""Barricade"", ""Dusswapner Nagari"" (City of Nightmares) and ""Ebaar Rajar Pala"" (Now it is the King's turn), drew crowds despite being officially banned. He wrote ""Louha Manab"" (The Iron Man), in 1964 while still in jail, based on a real trial against a pro-Stalin, ex-Politburo member by supporters of Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow of 1963. It was first staged at Alipore Jail in 1965, by the People’s Little Theatre. His stay in jail unleashed a new period of rebellious and politically charged plays, including ""Tiner Toloar"" (The"
"training programme in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The culmination of the programme was an Arabic and English play titled ""Dhow Under the Sun"", written by Iraqi playwright Hassan Abdulrazzak that was inspired by the lives of displaced youth across the Middle East, and specifically commissioned for the Home Grown students to perform to an audience at the Sharjah Institute for Theatrical Arts. Middle East Theatre Academy The Middle East Theatre Academy (META) is a programme aimed to introduce young actors to the art of theatre and stage performance in the Middle East. The academy was launched by Emirati businessperson Badr"
"Home (play) Home is a play by David Storey. It is set in a mental asylum, although this fact is only revealed gradually as the story progresses. The five characters include seemingly benign Harry, highly opinionated Jack, cynical Marjorie, and flirtatious Kathleen. As they interact we come to realize their delusions and pretensions are similar to those of people living in a supposedly normal society. The play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 17 June 1970, directed by Lindsay Anderson. It transferred to the Apollo Theatre, where it ran for three months, then to Broadway, opening on"
"Play-House"" (1688), for example, attacked the parentage and pretense of Elizabeth Barry and Thomas Betterton, as well as the dissipate, drunken, whoring patrons of the theater. It records the life of London around Covent Garden, complete with demobbed soldiers, thieves, prostitutes, and the nobility who only cover their filth in gold, cosmetics, and perfumes. He also produced a few topical satires, such as ""To Julian, Secretary of the Muses,"" which attacks an anonymous lampoon author and gives specific detail about the personalities and personages of some of the dramatists of the day. He even wrote a poem in honor of"
"a much more physical way than the script provided for. See ""The Relapse"". George Powell (playwright) George Powell (1668? – 1714) was a 17th-century London actor and playwright who was a member of the United Company. He wrote a misogynistic play called ""The Imposture Defeated; or, A Trick to Cheat the Devil"", first performed in September 1697. This play portrayed the proper treatment of an adulteress as brutal confinement and isolation from others to punish her and prevent the spread of her attitude. It is thought that this play was rushed out as a result of Mr. Powell having seen"
"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"
"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"
"The School of Night (play) The School of Night is a play by Peter Whelan. It was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon on 4 November 1992. The play takes place between the Summer of 1592 and Spring 1593. It concerns the life of Christopher Marlowe and the mystery surrounding his untimely death during a brawl in Deptford, set against a backdrop of a politically and religiously divided England where the state and its spies watch those who may be accused of sedition, treason and blasphemy. In Scadbury Park, the home of Thomas Walsingham,"
"(1883–92); the later plays of the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg (1849–1912), including the trilogy ""To Damascus"" 1898–1901, ""A Dream Play"" (1902), ""The Ghost Sonata"" (1907); Frank Wedekind (1864–1918), especially the ""Lulu"" plays ""Erdgeist"" (""Earth Spirit"") (1895) and ""Die Büchse der Pandora"" (""Pandora's Box"") (1904); the American poet Walt Whitman's (1819–92) ""Leaves of Grass"" (1855–91); the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–81); Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863–1944); Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853–90); Belgian painter James Ensor (1860–1949); and pioneering Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856–1939). In 1905, a group of four German artists, led by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, formed Die Brücke (the"
"Martin Blank (playwright) Martin Blank is an American playwright, screenwriter, and theatrical producer. Martin Blank was born in Bethesda, Maryland, where he attended Bethesda Chevy Chase High School. He attended the University of Maryland and the Yale School of Drama. Two of Blank's plays were produced Off Broadway: ""The Law of Return"" at the Fourth Street Theatre, and ""Avenue of Americas"" at The Tank Theater. ""The Law of Return"" is a political thriller inspired by the real-life case involving Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. intelligence analyst who pleaded guilty to charges of spying for Israel. In 2017, he was developing"
"""Monologues for Actors of Color: Women"", both edited by Roberta Uno and published by Routledge in 2016. References: Ismail Khalidi (writer) Ismail Khalidi (; born 1982) is a Palestinian American playwright, poet, director and actor, best known for the plays ""Tennis in Nablus"" (2010) and ""Truth Serum Blues"" (2005). ""Tennis in Nablus"" received two graduate student Kennedy Center Honors in 2008 while he was still at NYU, the ""Mark Twain Comedy Playwriting Award"" and the ""Quest for Peace Playwriting Award."" Khalidi's writing tackles the history of Palestine and the modern Middle East, as well as wider themes of race, colonialism"