"as ""Caesar"", Claire Bloom as ""Cleopatra"", Judith Anderson as ""Ftatateeta"", Corin Redgrave as ""Apollodorus"", Laurence Hardy as ""Britannus"" and Jack Gwillim as ""Rufio"" ""(this version used the Alternate Prologue)"". ""Caesar and Cleopatra"" was adapted for the 1968 Broadway musical ""Her First Roman"" by Ervin Drake. Caesar and Cleopatra (play) Caesar and Cleopatra is a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw that depicts a fictionalized account of the relationship between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. It was first published with ""Captain Brassbound's Conversion"" and ""The Devil's Disciple"" in Shaw's 1901 collection ""Three Plays for Puritans"". It was first performed in"
"for his role in the revival of ""Death of a Salesman"". He appeared on Broadway in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of ""Come Back, Little Sheba"" as Doc from January 24, 2008 to March 16, 2008. Anderson starred as Andy Dufresne in the stage version of the film ""The Shawshank Redemption"" which premiered at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin in May 2009. The play transferred to the West End at the Wyndham's Theatre in London, from 4 September 2009 to 29 November 2009. He appeared in ""A Guide for the Perplexed"" at the Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago in July–August 2010. Anderson"
"assistant, Brother Lawrence, in a dilapidated church. The audience functions as Eddie's . The script draws from conspiracy theories (including the titular Illuminati, as well as the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Freemasons), vaudeville humor, and pop culture references, such as Paul Lynde and The Seventh Seal (whereby the Reverend Eddie plays a game of basketball against death). Larson and Lee's other works include Tent Meeting (Dramatist Play Service)The Salvation of Iggy Scrooge and Isle of Dogs (Samuel French). Their new plays, The Bench: A Story of Christmas, which premeried at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre (production information available from"
"include the juvenile quiz show, ""March of Games"" (1938–1941), produced by Nila Mack and featuring many of the young actors from ""Let's Pretend"". Anderson appeared in Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre production of ""Caesar"" on Broadway, as portrayed as the character Richard Samuels in the 2008 film ""Me and Orson Welles"". His other Broadway credits include ""1776"", ""Il Trovatore"", ""Aida"", ""Carmen"", ""Good Neighbor"", and ""The Shoemakers' Holiday"". Beginning in 1963 he was the voice of the General Mills Lucky Charms mascot Lucky the Leprechaun, continuing the character for 29 years even though he is not Irish. In 2005, he recalled: Anderson"
"the age of 90. Daphne Anderson Daphne Anderson (née Scrutton; 27 April 1922 – 15 January 2013) was an English stage, film, and television actress, as well as a dancer and singer. She made her London theatre debut in 1938 at the Windmill Theatre. Anderson has appeared in such films as ""The Beggar's Opera"", ""Hobson's Choice"" and ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"". Anderson was born on 27 April 1922, in London, to parents Alan Edward Scrutton and Gladys Amy Scrutton (""née"" Juler). Her surname was originally ""Scrutton"", but she later changed it to ""Anderson"". Anderson attended Kensington High School. She married Lionel"
"Daphne Anderson Daphne Anderson (née Scrutton; 27 April 1922 – 15 January 2013) was an English stage, film, and television actress, as well as a dancer and singer. She made her London theatre debut in 1938 at the Windmill Theatre. Anderson has appeared in such films as ""The Beggar's Opera"", ""Hobson's Choice"" and ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"". Anderson was born on 27 April 1922, in London, to parents Alan Edward Scrutton and Gladys Amy Scrutton (""née"" Juler). Her surname was originally ""Scrutton"", but she later changed it to ""Anderson"". Anderson attended Kensington High School. She married Lionel William Carter. Daphne Anderson"
"Captain Brassbound's Conversion Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1900) is a play by G. Bernard Shaw. It was published in Shaw's 1901 collection ""Three Plays for Puritans"" (together with ""Caesar and Cleopatra"" and ""The Devil's Disciple""). The first American production of the play starred Ellen Terry in 1907. The play explores the relationship between the law, justice, revenge and forgiveness. ACT I, Mogador, Morocco. Sir Howard Hallam, a judge, and his sister-in-law, Lady Cicely Waynflete, a well-known explorer, are at the home of Rankin, a Presbyterian minister. Rankin, knows Sir Howard as the brother of an old friend, Miles Hallam, who moved"
"had a touring theatre and a permanent venue in Malvern, Worcestershire, regularly taking part in the Malvern Festival and attracting the attention of George Bernard Shaw. One of Shaw's last plays, ""Shakes versus Shav"", was written for and first performed in 1949 by the company. From 1957 to 1969, Gerry Anderson produced many television series starring marionettes, starting with Roberta Leigh's ""The Adventures of Twizzle"" and ending with ""The Secret Service"". Many of these series (the most famous of which was ""Thunderbirds"") employed a technique called Supermarionation, which automatically synchronized the pre-recorded character dialogue to the puppets' mouth movements. Anderson"
"My Fair Lady.jpg|thumb|Cinematographer Harry Stradling poses with [[Audrey Hepburn]] as Eliza Doolittle on the set of the 1964 movie musical ""My Fair Lady.""]] [[Category:1913 books]] [[Category:1913 plays]] [[Category:West End plays]] [[Category:Plays by George Bernard Shaw]] [[Category:Works originally published in Everybody's Magazine]] [[Category:Literature first published in serial form]] [[Category:Plays set in London]] [[Category:British plays adapted into films]] Pygmalion (play) Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to"
"The Admirable Loombucket"" with Kenneth Williams in the Crichton role. The play was also filmed in four more remote forms: The Admirable Crichton The Admirable Crichton is a comic stage play written in 1902 by J. M. Barrie. Barrie took the title from the sobriquet of a fellow Scot, the polymath James Crichton, a 16th-century genius and athlete. The epigram-loving Ernest is probably a caricature of the title character in Oscar Wilde's ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". The plot may derive from ""Robinson's Eiland"", an 1896 German play by Ludwig Fulda. In this, ""a satire upon modern super-cultur in its"
"play in a more contemporary context, away from the immediate historical context of its original period. Major Barbara Major Barbara is a three-act English play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907. The story concerns an idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, who is engaged in helping the poor as a Major in the Salvation Army in London. For many years, Barbara and her siblings have been estranged from their father, Andrew Undershaft, who now reappears as a rich and successful munitions maker. Undershaft, the father, gives money to the Salvation Army, which offends"
"André (play) André; a Tragedy in Five Acts is a play by William Dunlap, first produced at the Park Theatre in New York City on March 30, 1798, by the Old American Company, published in that same year together with a collection of historic documents relating to the case of the title character, Major John André, the British officer who was hanged as a spy on October 2, 1780, for his role in the treason of Benedict Arnold. The play does not go into the historic details, but rather presents a fictionalized account of the American debate over whether to"
"The Admirable Crichton The Admirable Crichton is a comic stage play written in 1902 by J. M. Barrie. Barrie took the title from the sobriquet of a fellow Scot, the polymath James Crichton, a 16th-century genius and athlete. The epigram-loving Ernest is probably a caricature of the title character in Oscar Wilde's ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". The plot may derive from ""Robinson's Eiland"", an 1896 German play by Ludwig Fulda. In this, ""a satire upon modern super-cultur in its relation to primal nature"", a group of Berlin officials (including a capitalist, a professor and a journalist) are shipwrecked on"
"William Anderson (theatre) William Anderson (14 January 1868 – 16 August 1940) was a notable Australian theatre entrepreneur. He left school at age ten and eventually found work as a theatre manager, marrying the actress Eugenie Duggan. He established two theatre companies, opened Wonderland City in Sydney and built the Kings Theatre in Melbourne. He produced several classics of the Australian stage including ""Thunderbolt"" (1905), ""The Squatter's Daughter"" (1907) (which he filmed in 1910) and ""The Man from Outback"" (1909), as well as co-writing several plays. Anderson worked with such actors and writers as Edmund Duggan, Bert Bailey, Olive Wilton"
"Major Barbara Major Barbara is a three-act English play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907. The story concerns an idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, who is engaged in helping the poor as a Major in the Salvation Army in London. For many years, Barbara and her siblings have been estranged from their father, Andrew Undershaft, who now reappears as a rich and successful munitions maker. Undershaft, the father, gives money to the Salvation Army, which offends Major Barbara, who does not want to be connected to his ""tainted"" wealth. However, the father"
"(1957), ""The Nun's Story"" (1959), and ""The Sand Pebbles"" (1966). He also authored many television scripts, including the TV play ""The Last Act Is a Solo"" (1991), and the novels ""After"" (1973) and ""Getting Up and Going Home"" (1978). He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1981. Anderson was married to Phyllis Stohl from 1940 until her death in 1956 and to actress Teresa Wright from 1959 until their divorce in 1978. Anderson died of pneumonia on February 9, 2009 at his home in Manhattan, aged 91. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease for seven"
"in the massive, central, square French-style dome. This building did not specialise in opera, although there were some operatic performances in its early years. The theatre opened with a dramatisation of Gilbert Parker's ""The Seats of the Mighty"". Adaptations of novels by Dickens, Tolstoy, and others formed a significant part of the repertoire, along with classical works from Molière and Shakespeare. The theatre also hosted the world premiere of J. M. Synge's ""The Tinker's Wedding"" on 11 November 1909 and George Bernard Shaw's ""Pygmalion"", with Tree as Henry Higgins and Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza, in 1914. Tree's productions were"
"1894 as Bluntschli in ""Arms and the Man"", and as Dick Dudgeon in ""The Devil's Disciple"" in 1897. The latter production was the first Shaw production to turn a profit. As a manager and producer of plays, Mansfield was known for his lavish staging. He often produced, starred in (often opposite his wife), and directed plays on Broadway, sometimes also writing under the pseudonym Meridan Phelps. His other Broadway roles in the 1890s included Napoleon Bonaparte (1894), the title role in ""The Story of Rodion, the Student"" (1895), Sir John Sombras in ""Castle Sombras"" (1896), Eugen Courvoisier in ""The First"
"George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as ""Man and Superman"" (1902), ""Pygmalion"" (1912)"" and Saint Joan"" (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw"
"released on 30 August. The West Coast Premiere of the musical adaptation opened in June 2013 at The San Jose Repertory Theater directed by Michael Halberstam. Candida (play) Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was written in 1894 and first published in 1898, as part of his ""Plays Pleasant"". The central characters are clergyman James Morell, his wife Candida and a youthful poet, Eugene Marchbanks, who tries to win Candida's affections. The play questions Victorian notions of love and marriage, asking what a woman really desires from her husband. The cleric is a Christian Socialist, allowing Shaw—himself a"
"be a vehicle for continued sales to territories where the show is known as ""Inspector Barnaby"". Dudgeon had first appeared in ""Midsomer Murders"" in the opening episode of the fourth series (""Garden of Death""), playing a secondary character. In 2012 Dudgeon starred as Norman Birkett on BBC Radio 4's ""Afternoon Play"" series in four plays written by Caroline and David Stafford based on Birkett's cases. Dudgeon is married to BBC Radio producer Mary Peate. They have two children. Neil Dudgeon Neil Dudgeon (born 2 January 1961) is an English actor who, from 2011, has played DCI John Barnaby in the"
"The Shawshank Redemption The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella ""Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption"". It tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murder of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence. Over the following two decades, he befriends a fellow prisoner, contraband smuggler Ellis ""Red"" Redding (Morgan Freeman), and becomes instrumental in a money laundering operation led by the prison warden Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton). William Sadler, Clancy"
"produced for fifty years. André (play) André; a Tragedy in Five Acts is a play by William Dunlap, first produced at the Park Theatre in New York City on March 30, 1798, by the Old American Company, published in that same year together with a collection of historic documents relating to the case of the title character, Major John André, the British officer who was hanged as a spy on October 2, 1780, for his role in the treason of Benedict Arnold. The play does not go into the historic details, but rather presents a fictionalized account of the American"
"as Tredwell ""Jonathan Coote"" as Lemoine ""Jacqueline Dutoit"" as Old Lady ""Robin Harvey Edwards"" as Lord Caterham ""Michele Gallagher"" as Lady Eileen Brent ""Martyn James"" as The Hon. George Lomax ""Jonathan Dryden Taylor"" as Bill Eversleigh ""Darrell Brockis"" as Anthony Cade ""Flora Berkeley"" as Virginia Revel ""Richard Addison"" as the Stranger ""Ronald Simon"" as Superintendent Battle ""Matthew Lloyd Davies"" as Herbert Banks ""Richard Galazka"" as Boris Anchoukoff Chimneys (play) Chimneys is a play by crime writer Agatha Christie and is based upon her own 1925 novel ""The Secret of Chimneys"". The play was written in 1931 and was due to"
"musical. His performances on the west coast stage have included Don Quixote in ""Man of La Mancha"", Dr. Frank N. Furter in ""The Rocky Horror Show"", Richard M. Nixon in ""Judy's Scary Little Christmas"", and Burrs in both versions of ""The Wild Party"". Anderson is a member of the Troubadour Theater Company. He left California in 2007 to play Merlyn in a U.S. national tour of ""Camelot"" opposite Michael York, and moved to New York in 2008. In 2009, Anderson made his Broadway debut as Stewpot in the Tony award-winning revival of ""South Pacific"" at Lincoln Center. He was in"
"work. ""The Confidence Course"" script was liked by ""Wednesday Play"" script editor Roger Smith who then commissioned Potter to write what became the second Nigel Barton play for the new anthology series. ""Alice"" (also 1965), his next transmitted play, chronicled the relationship between Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his ""nom de plume"", Lewis Carroll, and his muse Alice Liddell. The play drew complaints from the descendants of Dodgson, and of Macmillan, the publisher, who objected to the way the relationship was depicted. George Baker played Dodgson. Potter's most highly regarded works from this period were the semi-autobiographical plays ""Stand"
"happiness and failure. Frank's good at his job; he does enjoy it, but he has bigger dreams. I think everyone will be able to relate to it."" When Shaun Prendergast, who is a friend, wrote ""Faith and Cold Reading"" he created the part of a villain called Freddie the Suit for Tompkinson. The staging of that play at the Live Theatre in Newcastle in February–March 2011 is his most recent stage run. Tompkinson made his musical theatre debut in London's West End in the lead role of King Arthur in Monty Python's ""Spamalot"" at the Playhouse Theatre 20 November 2012."
"guru. The character names are a reference to Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins, the main characters of the 1912 George Bernard Shaw play ""Pygmalion"", further popularized by the 1956 musical ""My Fair Lady"". In the play and musical, Henry is tasked with improving Eliza's social status, and ends up falling in love with his own creation. The Shaw play is in turn inspired by the story of Pygmalion in Greek mythology, who was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had created. The series featured modern day music and modern day social problems. The series will premiere"
"Theatre, London, with Roy Dotrice, Michael Pennington and Patricia Routledge. The Best of Friends (play) The Best of Friends is an epistolary play by Hugh Whitemore about the friendship of George Bernard Shaw, Sydney Cockerell, and Dame Laurentia McLachlan, based in the lengthy correspondence that passed between them for over 25 years. It was inspired by ""The Nun, the Infidel, and the Superman"" by Dame Felicitas Corrigan, a Benedictine nun at Stanbrook Abbey in the U.K. George Bernard Shaw is considered one of the most important English-language playwrights of the 20th century. Sydney Cockerell was the curator of the Fitzwilliam"
"who assumes the personality of the troubled baseball player Darryl Strawberry – a role for which she earned rave reviews. In 2005, she appeared as Lady Dedlock in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel ""Bleak House"". She had a starring role in the Irish film ""The Mighty Celt"", for which she won an IFTA award for Best International Actress. The same year she also appeared in ""A Cock and Bull Story"" with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon – a film version of the novel ""Tristram Shandy"". In 2006, Anderson won the Broadcasting Press Guild Television and Radio Award for"
"undertaking a game of chess with the personification of Death until he can perform one meaningful altruistic act of conscience (overturning the chess board to distract Death long enough for a family of jugglers to escape in their wagon). The 1942 ""Casablanca"" centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo.The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for ""Doctor Zhivago"" (an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of"
"starred Frederick Ranalow as Merrythought, Hugh E. Wright as The Citizen, Margaret Yarde as Wife, Manning Whiley as Tim and Alex McCrindle as George Greengoose. The Knight of the Burning Pestle The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a play in five acts by Francis Beaumont, first performed at Blackfriars Theatre in 1607 and published in a quarto in 1613. It is the earliest whole parody (or pastiche) play in English. The play is a satire on chivalric romances in general, similar to ""Don Quixote"", and a parody of Thomas Heywood's ""The Four Prentices of London"" and Thomas Dekker's ""The"
"history fiction. He appears as a character in George Bernard Shaw's play ""The Devil's Disciple"" and its 1959 and 1987 film adaptions, portrayed by Laurence Olivier and Ian Richardson respectively. Historical novels by Chris Humphreys that are set during the Saratoga campaign also feature him, while alternate or mystical history versions of his campaign are featured in ""For Want of a Nail"" by Robert Sobel and the 1975 CBS Radio Mystery Theater play ""Windandingo"". John Burgoyne General John Burgoyne (24 February 1722 – 4 August 1792) was a British army officer, dramatist and politician who sat in the House of"