"novel ""The Painted Veil"" by W. Somerset Maugham, the last words of the poem ""An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog"", ""The dog it was that died"", are the dying words of bacteriologist Walter Fane, one of the primary characters in the novel. Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766), his pastoral poem ""The Deserted Village"" (1770), and his plays ""The Good-Natur'd Man"" (1768) and ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1771, first performed in 1773). He"
"to their two children. John Tottenham O'Keeffe and Adelaide O'Keeffe. In 1777, O'Keeffe moved to London. The following year he wrote ""Tony Lumpkin in Town"", a sequel to Oliver Goldsmith's ""She Stoops to Conquer"", and sent it to the manager of the Haymarket Theatre. The play was successfully produced, and O'Keeffe regularly wrote for the Haymarket thereafter. In 1782 O'Keeffe had his two children sent abroad to France to deny their mother access to them. His son did well but his daughter suffered in convent schools. Between 1782 and 1796, O'Keeffe wrote around 28 plays and librettos for comic operas."
"She Stoops to Conquer She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by the Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in the English-speaking world. It is one of the few plays from the 18th century to have retained its appeal and is regularly performed. The play has been adapted into a film several times, including in 1914 and 1923. Initially the play was titled ""Mistakes of a Night"" and the events within the play take place in one long night. In 1778, John O'Keeffe"
"opened in 1879 as the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. In 1873 he retired and moved to London where, being a great lover of horses, he spent the rest of his life campaigning to reduce the suffering caused by inappropriate harness, in particular tight bearing reins (also criticised in the 1877 novel ""Black Beauty"") and gag bits. He died in London on 26 March 1883, followed by his widow on 2 March 1884. Works he authored were: In 1827 he married Celina, eldest daughter of John Greaves (1774-1849), later a banker living at Radford Semele, and his wife Mary Whitehead (1779-1864). She"
"Oxford University. He is married to Spanish actress, theatre director, and writer Maria Fernandez Ache with whom he has a daughter, Dafne Keen, who is also an actress. Some of his notable British theatre credits include ""Ghosts"", ""Waste"", ""Tom and Viv"", ""Five Gold Rings"" (Almeida Theatre), ""Huis Clos"" (Trafalgar Studios), ""Macbeth"", ""The Changeling"" (Cheek By Jowl, Barbican and international tours), ""The Arsonists"" (Royal Court Theatre), ""Kiss of the Spider Woman"" (Donmar Warehouse), ""The Rubenstein Kiss"" (Hampstead Theatre), ""Hysteria"", ""Don Juan"", ""Man and Superman"" (Theatre Royal, Bath), ""Pericles"", ""The Prince of Homburg"" (Lyric Hammersmith), ""The Duchess of Malfi"", ""The Coast of"
"in 1869, and first had a play – ""Our Farm"" – produced in London in 1872. He was a regular contributor to the Illustrated London News, specifically, the English Homes series, and was the theatre critic for the Sunday Times starting in 1894 and continuing until at least 1897. His greatest success as a playwright came in 1896 with the premiere of his adaption of ""The Prisoner of Zenda"". He later adapted other works of Anthony Hope, but none reached the same level of success. He married Elizabeth Ann Gould, and had two daughters, Lucy and Dorothy. His elder daughter,"
"roles in the television productions Highwater and Coverstory, and feature film The Climb, which starred John Hurt. Galvin was asked to return to Shortland Street in 2000 following a revamp of the show. He returned in the season final much to the delight on his fans. Since returning, Galvin has written many plays including the successful ""Station to Station"" and in 2007 Galvin was recognised as an outstanding emerging playwright, winning New Zealand's most significant national theatre award, the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. Galvin is married to Melissa Galvin with whom he shares a daughter named Lily. The couple married"
"of no comedy for many years that has so much exhilarated an audience that it has answered so much the great end of comedy – making an audience merry"". There have been a number of film and television adaptations of the play over the years: The play was adapted as an opera by George Macfarren. She Stoops to Conquer She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by the Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in the English-speaking world. It is one of the"
"Singular"" (1975), ""The Norman Conquests"" trilogy (1973), ""Bedroom Farce"" (1975), ""Just Between Ourselves"" (1976), ""A Chorus of Disapproval"" (1984), ""Woman in Mind"" (1985), ""A Small Family Business"" (1987), ""Man Of The Moment"" (1988), ""House"" & ""Garden"" (1999) and ""Private Fears in Public Places"" (2004). His plays have won numerous awards, including seven London ""Evening Standard"" Awards. They have been translated into over 35 languages and are performed on stage and television throughout the world. Ten of his plays have been staged on Broadway, attracting two Tony nominations, and one Tony award. Ayckbourn was born in Hampstead, London. His mother Irene"
"Falstaff (Salieri) Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle (""Falstaff, or The Three Jokes"") is a ""dramma giocoso"" in two acts by Antonio Salieri, set to a libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi after William Shakespeare's ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"". One of the earliest operatic versions of Shakespeare's play, Salieri's ""Falstaff"" is notable for a general compression and streamlining of the original plot, note the absence of the two young lovers, Fenton and Anne, and the addition of a scene in which Mistress Ford pretends to be German to charm Falstaff (actually two such scenes exist, one in a separate score by"
"century saw the emergence of two major Irish dramatists, Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who were two of the most successful playwrights on the London stage in the 18th century. Goldsmith (1728–1774) was born in Roscommon and grew up in extremely rural surroundings. He entered Trinity College in 1745 and graduated in 1749. He returned to the family home, and in 1751, began to travel, finally settling in London in 1756, where he published poetry, prose and two plays, ""The Good-Natur'd Man"" 1768 and ""She Stoops to Conquer"" 1773. This latter was a huge success and is still regularly"
"""Friendship, Love and Truth"" (1868); and ""The Village Blacksmith"" (1868). The very successful American play ""Hearts of Oak"" (1879) by James Herne and David Belasco was an adaptation of Leslie's ""Mariner's Compass"". In the early 1850s Leslie married Louisa Doxat, the daughter of a London area florist. By 1861 the couple had three daughters and two sons, the oldest a seven-year-old daughter and the youngest a baby girl. Ten years later Leslie is listed in the census record as married and living in Liverpool, though his wife and two sons are absent from the record. Leslie died in Paignton, a"
"all the play’s cheery light fantastic [it] contains altogether more truth than is quite comfortable."" The play was revived in a performance at the Hampstead Theatre in 2009 as part of the celebrations of the theatre’s 50th anniversary. Three comedies: ""The Trial of St George"", a satire on British justice when dealing with sexuality, inspired by the Oz Trial; ""Why Mrs Neustadter Always Loses"", a wry monologue by an American divorcee exiled on a Greek island; and ""Keep It in the Family"", a satire concerning a happy incestuous family (which Colin Spencer also directed) appeared between 1972 and 1978 at"
"poorly acted"". The author Walter Sichel commented that Gilbert himself would have laughed at the play, had it not been his own: ""It tends occasionally to touch on the genre which Gilbert so often satirised."" Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith is a play by W. S. Gilbert, styled ""A Three-Act Drama of Puritan times"". It opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 11 September 1876, starring Hermann Vezin, Johnston Forbes-Robertson and Marion Terry. The play was a success, running for about 100 performances and enjoying tours and several revivals. It was popular enough to be burlesqued in a"
"stories published posthumously in 1966. He also wrote ""The Labyrinth"": a tragedy in one act, based on ""Fair Rosamond"" by Thomas Miller (1847), which was first performed by The Pilgrim Players (which later became the Birmingham Repertory Company) in 1911. Lodge married twice and had four children: Oliver (1922-2009) by his first marriage, to Winifred Atkinson, known always as Wynlane; and Belinda (1933-1996), Tom (1936-2012) and Colin (1944-2006) by his marriage, secondly, to the Welsh painter Diana Violet Irene Mabel Uppington (1906-1998). Marrying after a 12-year courtship, Lodge and his wife Wynlane settled at Upper Holcombe near Painswick, Gloucestershire, in"
"with his partner, Sharon Singer. He has three children. 1982-83 ""Sons and Daughters""<br> 1983-84 ""Bell Canada Playhouse""<br> 1984 ""For The Record - The Front Line""<br> 1985 ""Ray Bradbury Theatre II - The Town Where No One Got Off""<br> 1985 ""Ray Bradbury Theatre II - The Crowd""<br> 1985 ""Showstopper""<br> 1985 ""The Screaming Woman""<br> 1986 ""Really Weird Tales - All's Well That Ends Strange""<br> 1986 ""Vulcan - You Oughta Be In Pictures""<br> 1987 ""Ray Bradbury Theatre II - The Emissary""<br> 1988 ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents""<br> 1988-89 ""The New Twilight Zone""<br> 1990 ""Clarence""<br> 1990 ""Journey Into Darkness""<br> 1990 ""Ray Bradbury Theatre""<br> 1990-93 ""Maniac Mansion""<br>"
"the original mansion still stands. In it are symbols of his acting career, including a theater in the basement and a separate room of store costumes. In 1926, after the death of his good friend Annie Oakley, he was given her unfinished autobiography. Stone and his wife, Allene Crater, whom he met in the company of ""The Wizard of Oz"", had three daughters, Dorothy, Paula, and Carol. Crater also appeared, in a small part, with Stone in ""Jack O'Lantern"". A ""Vanity Fair"" review of the play said of Crater, ""My only complaint is that the structure of the entertainment makes"
"course of searching for Robert, Charlie, his daughter Jenny, and some of his sons rescue Sam (Jenny's newlywed Confederate soldier husband) from a Yankee POW train. After enduring the tragedy of losing his eldest son Jacob (to a sniper) and his second eldest son James and James' wife Anne (to deserters), Charlie and the rest of the family return home, defeated. In his despair, Charlie is reminded to return to church, where he, at long last, is reunited with Robert once more. The play was first performed at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut, during 1974. It transferred"
"and ""Aladdin & His Microsoft Compatible Floppy Drive Laptop"" (performed at the Arches Theatre, Southwark). For many years he and his life partner Aline Waites - herself an actress, playwright and critic - collaborated on scripts for plays, revues and musical theatre of all kinds. Their ""Illustrated Victorian Songbook"" was published by Michael Joseph in 1984. Appearances in West End theatre included male lead in ""Barefoot in the Park"", and juvenile lead in ""The Pleasure of his Company"". He was twice married:<br> • 1. Maria Charles with whom he had two daughters, the stage manager Samantha Hunter and the actress"
"The Merry Wives of Windsor The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597. The Windsor of the play's title is a reference to the town of Windsor, also the location of Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England. Though nominally set in the reign of Henry IV, the play makes no pretense to exist outside contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life. It features the character Sir John Falstaff, the fat knight who had previously been featured in ""Henry IV, Part 1"" and ""Part 2""."
"in or out of sympathy with each other. Very late in the 17th century Oliver Goldsmith attempted to resist the tide of sentimental comedy with ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1773), and Richard Brinsley Sheridan would mount several satirical plays after Walpole's death. Both of these playwrights were taking advantage of a loosening of the censorship and popular weariness with ""refined"" comedy. Goldsmith's play reintroduces the country bumpkin character who outwits the sophisticated would-be rakes who are engaged in a plot to marry well. Sheridan, on the other hand, very consciously turned back to the Restoration comedy for his models but"
"Hampstead Theatre. The musical moved to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End in October 2014. The musical won four awards at the 2015 Olivier Awards, including one for Ray Davies: the Autograph Sound Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music . Ray Davies has been married three times and has four daughters. Two of them, Louisa Davies and Victoria Davies, are from his first marriage in 1964 to Rasa Dicpetris. In 1973, Davies attempted suicide by a drugs overdose following the breakup of his first marriage. He was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Davies' second marriage was in 1974"
"aunt's. Everyone is reconciled. Woodpecker and Maria go into the house together. Act I Act II Act III Haste to the Wedding Haste to the Wedding is a three-act comic opera with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music by George Grossmith, based on Gilbert's 1873 play, ""The Wedding March"". The opera was the most ambitious piece of composition undertaken by Grossmith. The piece was produced under the management of Charles Wyndham at the Criterion Theatre, London, opening on 27 July 1892. It closed on 20 August 1892, after a run of just 22 performances. Although a failure, the"
"Merry Wives of Windsor"" (Feb. 25–March 26, 2017), a comedy about the raucous Sir John Falstaff and his attempts to seduce two wives of the wealthiest men in Windsor. Eric Tucker directed. A group of high school students performed a 70-minute version of the play as part of Two River's education program (March 7–12, 2017). Following was ""The Women of Padilla"" (April 8–30, 2017), by Tony Meneses, about eight women who learn to carry on with life with food, faith, and laughter while their husbands are away at war. The season closed with the musical ""The Ballad of Little Jo"""
"informed reporters of Olivier's relationship with Plowright. The decree ""nisi"" was issued in December 1960, which enabled him to marry Plowright in March 1961. A son, Richard, was born in December 1961; two daughters followed, Tamsin Agnes Margaret—born in January 1963—and Julie-Kate, born in July 1966. In 1961 Olivier accepted the directorship of a new theatrical venture, the Chichester Festival. For the opening season in 1962 he directed two neglected 17th-century English plays, John Fletcher's 1638 comedy ""The Chances"" and John Ford's 1633 tragedy ""The Broken Heart"", followed by ""Uncle Vanya"". The company he recruited was forty strong and included"
"include ""Enemies"" (Almeida 2006), ""A Prayer for My Daughter"" (Young Vic, 2007). Leading roles at the National Theatre include ""Angels in America"" (1992), ""Rutherford and Son"" (1995), ""Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards"" (1999), ""The Prince's Play"" (2000), ""Sleep With Me"" (2002). His repertory work outside London during the 1980s includes ""Hamlet"" (Royal Exchange),""Pride and Prejudice"" (Leicester Haymarket), ""The Clandestine Marriage"" (Bristol, Old Vic), ""Comedy of Errors"" (York Playhouse), ""Wolf at the Door"", ""Invisible Friends"" (Scarborough, Stephen Joseph Theatre). Other work in London's West End includes the National Theatre production of ""Single Spies"" (Queens Theatre), and ""Me and"
"to it; this convinces her husband to support his wife and sign the petition, even though it will ruin his chances of becoming Vice Chancellor. The play's original run coincided with Bolt's ""A Man for All Seasons"" in 1960. It was more financially successful than ""Man"", although it received mixed critical reviews. Its original cast featured Michael Redgrave as Dean, daughter Vanessa, in one of her first major stage roles, as Stella, and Alan Dobie as Louis. The Tiger and the Horse The Tiger and the Horse is a three-act play by Robert Bolt, written in 1960. It takes its"
"time as Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway); ""American Primitive"" (1969) a verse play adapted from the letters of John and Abigail Adams, premiered at Williamstown Theatre Festival, directed by Frank Langella and starring Anne Bancroft; ""Goodly Creatures"" (1980), about Puritan dissident Anne Hutchinson; and ""Monday After the Miracle"" (1982), a continuation of the Helen Keller story. His ill-received ""Golda"" (1977), a work about the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir became so popular in its revised version, ""Golda's Balcony"" (2003), that it set a record as the longest-running one-woman play in Broadway history on January 2, 2005. In 1973, Gibson published"
"of Bristol, Bournemouth, and Texas (Austin). From 1964–73 he did literary work for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and later some for the National Theatre. In 1971 Peter Brook invited him to Iran for three months to write a book about the ""Orghast"" project that Brook and Ted Hughes were undertaking. He was a director of the Cheltenham Literature Festival in 1978, 1979, and 1999. He has two daughters, Imogen and Sophie, and a son, Oliver Smith (cricketer). Stories and poems for BBC radio, Transatlantic Review, The Listener, et al. And a dozen shorter plays. With wife, subject of John Boorman’s"
"Palace of Truth"" (1870), ""Pygmalion and Galatea"" (1871) and ""The Wicked World"" (1873). Buckstone also produced Gilbert's dramas, ""Charity"" (1874) and ""Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith"" (1876), as well as his 1877 farce ""Engaged"". In 1873 Buckstone introduced the innovation of matinées starting at 2.00 pm. By the mid-1870s, however, Buckstone's company was disbanding, and in 1877, ill and bankrupt after sustaining heavy losses, he gave up management of the theatre. Buckstone was first married in 1828 to Anne Maria Honeyman, with whom he had at least five children before she died in 1844. For many years, Buckstone was closely associated with"
"of the play, whispering the names of the two daughters. Like Julia in ""Haunting Julia"", the father in this play can be considered a very strong off-stage character. The entire play takes place in the garden of the Chesters' family home, now neglected and run-down. Included in the scene is the edge of an overgrown tennis court and a summer house built over a disused well, both of which play important roles during play. Unlike ""Haunting Julia"", written to run as a single scene with no interval, there are three scenes in this play. The first act has two scenes,"
"Association career achievement award. His credits included ""Four Daughters"" (1938) for which he received his first Oscar nomination, ""The Bride Came C.O.D."" (1941), ""The Man Who Came to Dinner"" (1942), ""Mr. Skeffington"" (1944), ""The Tender Trap"" (1955), ""Light in the Piazza"" (1962), ""Send Me No Flowers"" (1964), ""Pete 'n' Tillie"" (1972), ""Cross of Iron"" (1977) and ""Reuben, Reuben"" (1983). Epstein had a less successful result as a playwright in Broadway theatre. His play, ""But, Seriously"" (starring Richard Dreyfuss and Tom Poston) would prove to be the last to be staged at Henry Miller's Theatre for more than 30 years, opening"
"until his decision to become a full-time writer. On 25 June 1970 he married Victoria Meredith-Owens, a farmer and yoga teacher. They have six children, Tobias Cavan, Joseph Owen, Emilie Margaret, Frederick Garry, Peter Alexander, and Juliet Elizabeth, and two grandchildren. His home is in King's Sutton, in Northamptonshire. O'Connor directed his own version of Jonson's ""Catiline"" in the Stratford Studio, with Roy Dotrice, Janet Suzman, and Jean Tardieu's ""The Keyhole"" at the Aldwych Theatre. He directed the London premiere of Alun Owen's ""A Little Winter Love"" at Stratford East ('directed by Garry O'Connor with almost the psychic speed of"