"for Cannon was an adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel ""Appointment with Death"" (1989) starring Peter Ustinov as Poirot. Winner produced, edited and directed. Despite a strong support cast including Lauren Bacall and Carrie Fisher the film flopped. After Cannon Films entered bankruptcy, Winner confined himself to British productions. He produced and directed an adaptation of the Alan Ayckbourn musical play ""A Chorus of Disapproval"" (1989) with Anthony Hopkins. Winner wrote the script with Ayckbourn. He produced, directed and edited the Michael Caine and Roger Moore farce ""Bullseye!"" (1990), based on a story by Winner. He wrote, produced and directed"
"comments on the play's reception by the audience. (Closing Song) The Disappointment The Disappointment, or The Force of Credulity is a ballad opera composed by Samuel Adler in two acts with a prologue and epilogue, to a text by an unknown author writing under the pseudonym ""Andrew Barton"". William Peterson, in 1766, claimed that the opera was written by a ""son of Philadelphia College,"" leading to speculation that the author may have been Francis Hopkinson or Jacob Duché. In his book on American drama, Walter Meserve claims that the author was named Thomas Forrest. Regarded as one of the first"
"Delusion of the Fury Delusion of the Fury is a stage play by the American composer Harry Partch that is based on a Japanese Noh drama. The first draft for singers, mimes, dancers, and musicians was called ""Cry from Another Darkness""; Partch completed it on December 30, 1964. The second draft, dated January 17, 1965, was a fuller, longer piece, re-titled ""Delusion of the Fury"". It was originally conceived as a play in two acts, with a dramatic first act and a comedic second. Partch completed writing of the music on March 17, 1966. The piece employs Partch's original system"
"The Disappointment The Disappointment, or The Force of Credulity is a ballad opera composed by Samuel Adler in two acts with a prologue and epilogue, to a text by an unknown author writing under the pseudonym ""Andrew Barton"". William Peterson, in 1766, claimed that the opera was written by a ""son of Philadelphia College,"" leading to speculation that the author may have been Francis Hopkinson or Jacob Duché. In his book on American drama, Walter Meserve claims that the author was named Thomas Forrest. Regarded as one of the first American operas, it was to have been performed on April"
"La damnation de Faust La damnation de Faust (English: ""The Damnation of Faust""), Op. 24 is a work for four solo voices, full seven-part chorus, large children's chorus and orchestra by the French composer Hector Berlioz. He called it a ""légende dramatique"" (dramatic legend). It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 6 December 1846. The French composer was inspired by a translation of Goethe's dramatic poem ""Faust"" and produced a musical work that, like the masterpiece on which it is based, defies easy categorisation. Conceived at various times as a free-form oratorio and as an opera (Berlioz"
"An American Requiem An American Requiem is a monumental work of choral music by the composer James DeMars. Following the 1992 Los Angeles riots subsequent to the Rodney King trial, Dr. James DeMars, a professor of Music Composition at Arizona State University, was commissioned by the Art Renaissance Foundation to write a large memorial work that would contribute to bringing the American community together. The 75-minute choral work, entitled ""An American Requiem"", took a full year to be written and orchestrated. It involves large musical forces: a 42-member symphony orchestra, a professional choir of at least 100 voices, and the"
"error of condemning Antigone, an act which he pitifully regrets in the play's final lines. Athenians, proud of their democratic tradition, would have identified his error in the many lines of dialogue which emphasize that the people of Thebes believe he is wrong, but have no voice to tell him so. Athenians would identify the folly of tyranny. The Chorus in ""Antigone"" departs significantly from the chorus in Aeschylus' ""Seven Against Thebes"", the play of which ""Antigone"" is a continuation. The chorus in ""Seven Against Thebes"" is largely supportive of Antigone's decision to bury her brother. Here, the chorus is"
"The Disobedient Child The Disobedient Child is a theatrical comic interlude written c.1560 by Thomas Ingelend (an author who is known only as a ""late student of Cambridge"", as described on the first edition's title-page) and first performed in a Tudor hall. This play contains the famous line: ""None is so deaf as who will not hear."" It deals with the subject of the proper disciplinary treatment of children, raising the threat of the evil of those raised without strict discipline. It portrays a young man who is eager to marry despite his father's objections, and the unhappiness of his"
"Chamber Music (play) Chamber Music is a 1962 one-act play by absurdist playwright Arthur Kopit. The story is set in 1938 and concerns eight famous women from different historical periods who all are interned in the same insane asylum. The women are — or at least believe they are — author Gertrude Stein, martyr Joan of Arc, activist Susan B. Anthony, politician Queen Isabella I of Spain, Constanze Mozart (wife of the famed composer), pilot Amelia Earhart, silent-film actress Pearl White, and explorer Osa Johnson. They have come together to represent the women of the asylum in planning for an"
"B000009ON4 London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with André Turp, Régine Crespin, Michel Roux, John Shirley-Quirk. Conducted by Pierre Monteux Audio LP Discocorp 539; Audio CD BBC Legends BBCL 40062. Recorded 8 March 1962.</poem> There are also many recordings of excerpts. La damnation de Faust La damnation de Faust (English: ""The Damnation of Faust""), Op. 24 is a work for four solo voices, full seven-part chorus, large children's chorus and orchestra by the French composer Hector Berlioz. He called it a ""légende dramatique"" (dramatic legend). It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 6 December 1846. The French composer"
"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"
"Philadelphia. Chamber Music (play) Chamber Music is a 1962 one-act play by absurdist playwright Arthur Kopit. The story is set in 1938 and concerns eight famous women from different historical periods who all are interned in the same insane asylum. The women are — or at least believe they are — author Gertrude Stein, martyr Joan of Arc, activist Susan B. Anthony, politician Queen Isabella I of Spain, Constanze Mozart (wife of the famed composer), pilot Amelia Earhart, silent-film actress Pearl White, and explorer Osa Johnson. They have come together to represent the women of the asylum in planning for"
"of playlets, poems and performance pieces by such authors as Alfred Jarry, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Jacques Prevert, N.F. Simpson, Edward Albee and Kenneth Koch. One of its items, Alfred Jarry’s The Song of the Disembraining was thought by the police to be obscene, but Thoms refused to remove it from the show and was summonsed to court, where he was successful in refuting the charge. ""A Revue of the Absurd"" was also staged in Melbourne as part of the Marlowe Society’s Theatre of the Absurd season, organised by Bill Wakler. Thoms’ next productions were Arrabal's ""Fando and Lis and"
"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 an as yet unpublished copy of another playwright's manuscript, Mary Pix's ""The Deceiver"
"revolt of the members against the belly in ""Coriolanus"". William Averell William Averell (""baptised"" 12 February 1556 – ""buried"" 23 September 1605) was an English pamphleteer, prose writer, parish clerk, and schoolmaster. He is best known as the author of ""A Mervalious Combat of Contrarieties"" (1588) that William Shakespeare used as the source for the parable of the revolt of the members against the belly in ""Coriolanus"". Averell's baptism on 12 February 1556 is recorded in the records of the parish of St Peter upon Cornhill. His father, a joiner, was John Averell (d. 1569), and his mother Margareth (d."
"which she played Gertie and understudied the role of Sally Bowles. This led to an invitation from Wayne Sleep, who played the Emcee in that production, to join his UK tour. Subsequently the choreographer Bill Deamer invited her to the Salisbury Playhouse to perform in ""A Chorus of Disapproval"" by Alan Ayckbourn. This began a close association between Dee, Ayckbourn and his work. This led to leading roles in musical theatre, including Sarah Brown in ""Guys and Dolls"", Ellie May Chipley in the award-winning Royal Shakespeare Company and Opera North production of ""Show Boat"" at the London Palladium, Bombalurina in"
"A Ceremony of Carols A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28, is a choral piece by Benjamin Britten, scored for three-part treble chorus, solo voices, and harp. Written for Christmas, it consists of eleven movements, with text from ""The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems"", edited by Gerald Bullett. The text is principally in Middle English, with some Latin and Early Modern English. The piece was written in 1942 while Britten was at sea, travelling from the United States to England. The piece was written at the same time as Britten's ""Hymn to St. Cecilia"" and is stylistically very similar. Originally conceived"
"Jules Jordan (composer) Julius ""Jules"" Jordan (November 10, 1850 - March 5, 1927) was an American composer, operatic tenor, vocal instructor and conductor. Jordan took the leading part in two important American premieres: Berlioz's ""La' Damnation de Faust"" produced in 1880 at Steinway Hall, New York, under the direction of Leopold Damrosch, by the New York Oratorio Society in conjunction with the New York Arion Society and the Philharmonic Orchestra; and Gounod's ""Redemption,"" produced in Boston in 1882 by the Boston Oratorio Society. In 1880, he formed The Arion Club in Providence, RI., a mass choir that he conducted for"
"A Majority of One A Majority of One is a play by Leonard Spigelgass. The 1959-60 Broadway production was directed by Dore Schary and ran for 3 previews and 556 performances, with Gertrude Berg, Cedric Hardwicke, and Ina Balin. The play is a drama concerning racial prejudice involving Mrs. Jacoby, a Jewish widow from Brooklyn, New York, and Koichi Asano, a millionaire widower from Tokyo. Mrs. Jacoby is sailing to Japan with her daughter and foreign service officer son-in-law who is being posted to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. She still considers the country the enemy responsible for the death"
"A Child of Our Time A Child of Our Time is a secular oratorio by the British composer Michael Tippett (190598), who also wrote the libretto. Composed between 1939 and 1941, it was first performed at the Adelphi Theatre, London, on 19 March 1944. The work was inspired by events that affected Tippett profoundly: the assassination in 1938 of a German diplomat by a young Jewish refugee, and the Nazi government's reaction in the form of a violent pogrom against its Jewish population—called Kristallnacht. Tippett's oratorio deals with these incidents in the context of the experiences of oppressed people generally,"
"Caryl Churchill Caryl Churchill (born 3 September 1938, London) is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non-naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes. Her early work developed Bertolt Brecht's modernist dramatic and theatrical techniques of Epic theatre to explore issues of gender and sexuality. From ""A Mouthful of Birds"" (1986) onwards, she began to experiment with forms of dance-theatre, incorporating techniques developed from the performance tradition initiated by Antonin Artaud with his 'Theatre of Cruelty'. This move away from a clear ""Fabel"" dramaturgy towards increasingly fragmented and"
"composed of old men who are largely unwilling to see civil disobedience in a positive light. The chorus also represents a typical difference in Sophocles' plays from those of both Aeschylus and Euripides. A chorus of Aeschylus' almost always continues or intensifies the moral nature of the play, while one of Euripides' frequently strays far from the main moral theme. The chorus in ""Antigone"" lies somewhere in between; it remains within the general moral and the immediate scene, but allows itself to be carried away from the occasion or the initial reason for speaking. In this play Sophocles raises a"
"this time, he had also witnessed the failures of his parents' relationships as well as those of some of his friends. Which relationships, if any, he drew on for his plays, is unclear. In Paul Allen’s biography, Ayckbourn is briefly compared to Dafydd and Guy in ""A Chorus of Disapproval"" (1984). Both characters feel themselves in trouble, and there was speculation that Ayckbourn himself may have felt himself to be in trouble. At the time, he had reportedly become seriously involved with another actress, which threatened his relationship with Stoney. But again, it is unclear whether this had any effect"
"Catastrophe (play) Catastrophe is a short play by Samuel Beckett, written in French in 1982 at the invitation of A.I.D.A. (Association Internationale de Défense des Artistes) and “[f]irst produced in the Avignon Festival (21 July 1982) … Beckett considered it ‘massacred.’” It is one of his few plays to deal with a political theme and, arguably, holds the title of Beckett's most optimistic work. It was dedicated to then imprisoned Czech reformer and playwright, Václav Havel. An autocratic Director and his female Assistant put the “‘[f]inal touches to the last scene’ of some kind of dramatic presentation”, which consists entirely"
"sense of the word. The climax of everything that is ugly, cacophonous, blatant and erratic, the most perverse music I ever heard in all my life, is reached in the chapter 'The Hero's Battlefield.' The man who wrote this outrageously hideous noise, no longer deserving of the word music, is either a lunatic, or he is rapidly approaching idiocy"" (""Musical Courier"", April 19, 1899) His orchestral compositions include a ""Prelude and Fugue,"" which was played in New York City under the direction of Theodore Thomas; ""Alla Marcia,"" which was produced under Frank van der Stucken; a symphonic poem called ""Consolation,"""
"in 1961 she became Atelje’s manager, shifting its focus to the avant-garde plays. Trailović herself directed over 20 plays, including some authors whose works were never before played in Serbia and Yugoslavia, like Jean-Paul Sartre (""No Exit"") in 1957, Eugène Ionesco (""The Chairs"") in 1957, Albert Camus (""The Misunderstanding"") in 1960 and Edward Albee (""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"") in 1964. Other plays include ""Don Juan in Hell"" (by George Bernard Shaw; 1956), ""Medal"" (adapted folk tales; 1957), ""L'Histoire du soldat"" (Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz; 1959), ""Tchin-Tchin"" (François Billetdoux; 1960), ""The Fantasticks"" (Tom Jones; 1962), ""The Cocktail Party"" (T.S. Elliot); 1965), ""Marat/Sade"""
"to the bottom of social hierarchy. The Storm (Ostrovsky) The Storm (, sometimes translated as ""The Thunderstorm"") is a drama in five acts by the 19th-century Russian playwright Aleksandr Ostrovsky. As with Ostrovsky's other plays, ""The Storm"" is a work of social criticism, which is directed particularly towards the Russian merchant class. Ostrovsky wrote the play between July and October 1859. He read it in Lyubov Nikulina-Kositskaya's Moscow flat to the actors of the Maly Theatre to a great response. To make sure the play makes it through censorship barrier the author made a trip to the capital where he"
"English work, into a drama of much higher intensity and literary merit than the original in any way suggested."" The Disobedient Child The Disobedient Child is a theatrical comic interlude written c.1560 by Thomas Ingelend (an author who is known only as a ""late student of Cambridge"", as described on the first edition's title-page) and first performed in a Tudor hall. This play contains the famous line: ""None is so deaf as who will not hear."" It deals with the subject of the proper disciplinary treatment of children, raising the threat of the evil of those raised without strict discipline."
"couples Demetrius and Polidora, and Sophia and Lisimachus, have their misunderstandings resolved and are happily united once again. The Coronation (play) The Coronation is a Caroline era stage play, a tragicomedy written by James Shirley, and notable for the tug-of-war of authorship claims in which it was involved in the middle seventeenth century. The play was licensed by the Master of the Revels on 6 February 1635, and was probably written in the previous year or so. In May 1636, however, the London theatres shut down for one of their longest and most severe closures due to bubonic plague. Shirley"
"Ignoramus (play) Ignoramus is a college farce, a 1615 academic play by George Ruggle. Written in Latin (with passages in English and French), it was arguably the most famous and influential academic play of English Renaissance drama. Ruggle based his play on ""La Trappolaria"" (1596), an Italian comedy by Giambattista della Porta (which in turn borrows from the ""Pseudolus"" of Plautus). In Latin, ""ignoramus"", the first-person plural present active indicative of ""īgnōrō"" (“I do not know”, “I am unacquainted with”, “I am ignorant of”), literally means “we are ignorant of” or “we do not know”. The term acquired its English"
"While Webster's drama was generally dismissed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there has been ""a strong revival of interest"" in the 20th century. Other revenge tragedies include ""The Changeling"" written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, ""The Atheist's Tragedy"" by Cyril Tourneur, first published in 1611, Christopher Marlowe's ""The Jew of Malta"", ""The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois"" by George Chapman, ""The Malcontent"" (c. 1603) of John Marston and John Ford's ""'Tis Pity She's a Whore"". Besides ""Hamlet"", other plays of Shakespeare's with at least some revenge elements, are ""Titus Andronicus"", ""Julius Caesar"" and ""Macbeth"". George Chapman (?1559-?1634) was a"
"Thomas More's ""Utopia"" (1516), Jonathan Swift's ""Gulliver's Travels"" (1726), Voltaire's ""Candide"" (1759), and Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (1852). Political fiction frequently employs satire, often in the utopian and dystopian genres. This includes totalitarian dystopias of the early 20th century such as Jack London's ""The Iron Heel"", Sinclair Lewis' ""It Can't Happen Here"", and George Orwell's ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"". The Greek playwright Aristophanes' plays are known for their political and social satire, particularly in his criticism of the powerful Athenian general, Cleon, in plays such as ""The Knights"". Aristophanes is also notable for the persecution he underwent. Aristophanes' plays turned"
"the most popular of the four hymns derived from Neale's translation. American composer Horatio Parker composed an oratorio utilizing text from Bernard of Cluny's poem, ""Hora novissima"", in 1893. De contemptu mundi De Contemptu Mundi (""On Contempt for the World"") is the most well-known work of Bernard of Cluny. It is a 3,000 verse poem of stinging satire directed against the secular and religious failings he observed in the world around him. He spares no one; priests, nuns, bishops, monks, and even Rome itself are mercilessly scourged for their shortcomings. For this reason it was first printed by Matthias Flacius"