What is the name of the one-act play centered on two characters from Chekhov and wrote by Irish dramatist, short story writer and founder of the Field Day Theatre Company Brian Friel?
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Afterplay (play) Afterplay is a 2002 one-act play by Brian Friel. It centres on two characters from Chekhov (Sonya from "Uncle Vanya" and Andrey from "Three Sisters") meeting in Moscow in the 1920s.
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Brian Friel Brian Patrick Friel (9 January 1929 – 2 October 2015) was an Irish dramatist, short story writer and founder of the Field Day Theatre Company. He had been considered one of the greatest living English-language dramatists. He has been likened to an "Irish Chekhov" and described as "the universally accented voice of Ireland". His plays have been compared favourably to those of contemporaries such as Samuel Beckett, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter and Tennessee Williams.
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Out Cry Out Cry is a play by Tennessee Williams which was one version of "The Two-Character Play" by Williams. "Out Cry" premiered at the Ivanhoe Theatre in Chicago on July 8, 1971. It debuted on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre with a preview on February 28, 1973 and then ran from March 1-10. The New York production was directed by Peter Glenville and starred Cara Duff-MacCormick as Clare and Michael York as Felice.
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Edmund Falconer Edmund Falconer (c.1814 – 29 September 1879), born Edmund O'Rourke, he was an Irish poet, actor, theatre manager, songwriter and playwright, known for his keen wit and outstanding acting skills.
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The Phantom (play) The Phantom is a two act melodrama written by Dion Boucicault. It was originally titled "The Vampire" when it was first performed at the Princess's Theatre in London in 1852. Boucicault renamed it "The Phantom" when he went to the United States, where it opened in Philadelphia in 1856. The play tells the story of two different encounters with a mysterious phantom.
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Edward the King (play) Edward The King is a 2008 two-act play by American playwright David Brendan Hopes. The play is an adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's play "Edward II", which in turn is a dramatization of the real-life story of Edward II of England.
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The Wood Demon (play) The Wood Demon (Russian: "Леший" , "Goblin" , 1889) is a comedic play in four acts by Anton Chekhov.
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Carl Sternheim Carl Sternheim (born William Adolph Carl Francke; 1 April 1878 – 3 November 1942) was a German playwright and short story writer. One of the major exponents of German Expressionism, he especially satirized the moral sensibilities of the emerging German middle class during the Wilhelmine period.
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Padraic Fallon Padraic Fallon (3 January 1905 - 9 October 1974) was an Irish poet and playwright.
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Breath (play) Breath is a notably short stage work by Samuel Beckett. An altered version was first included in Kenneth Tynan's revue "Oh! Calcutta!", at the Eden Theatre in New York City on June 16, 1969. The UK premiere was at the Close Theatre Club in Glasgow in October 1969; this was the first performance of the text as written. The second performance, and the English premiere, was at a benefit held at the Oxford Playhouse on March 8, 1970. “The first accurate publication appeared in "Gambit" 4.16 (1969): 5–9, with a manuscript facsimile.”
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7 Stories 7 Stories is a play created by Canadian playwright Morris Panych.
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Conversations on a Homecoming Conversations on a Homecoming is a 1985 play by Irish playwright Tom Murphy. Premiered by the Druid Theatre Company, Galway, Ireland in a production directed by Garry Hynes. As one of the great Irish plays set in a pub, its influence can be seen in more recent plays such as "The Weir" by Conor McPherson.
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The Brighton Twins (play) The Brighton Twins (French: Les jumeaux de Brighton) is a 1908 play by the French writer Tristan Bernard. It is a farce about two twins born in Brighton, who are separated at birth and don't meet again for several decades. It is a loose reworking of the classic play "Menaechmi" by the Roman writer Plautus.
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The Death of Ivan the Terrible The Death of Ivan the Terrible (Russian: Смерть Иоанна Грозного, "Smert Ioa′nna Gro′znogo" ) is a historical drama by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy written in 1863 and first published in the January 1866 issue of "Otechestvennye zapiski" magazine. It is the first part of a trilogy that is followed by "Tsar Fiodor Ioannovich" and concludes with "Tsar Boris". All three plays were banned by the censor. It dramatises the story of Ivan IV of Russia and is written in blank verse. Tolstoy was influenced by the work of William Shakespeare in writing the trilogy, which formed the core of his reputation as a writer in the Russia of his day and as a dramatist to this day.
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Brian Stewart (playwright) Brian Stewart is a British playwright. He is best known for his play "Castro's Beard" that was first produced by the Deptford players, off-broadway in 2001. The New York Times described it as a 'Mordant, irreverent Comedy that was timely and thought-provoking'." It was subsequently produced by the Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts in 2002 and then at the Stages Repertory Theatre, Houston in 2004. Following a rehearsed reading at the Arts centre in London in 2005 - with a cast that included David Soul and Timothy West - the play was produced by the Theatre Royal Haymarket, in association with Richard Jordan Productions and the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, and embarked on a number one tour of the UK in 2006 when the name was changed to "Killing Castro". The cast included: Edward Hardwicke (Torphy), Clive Mantle (Brawner), Michael Praed (Madison) and Martin Shaw's son, Joe Shaw, as Drake. The play which centres on the true plots by the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro in the 1960s received mixed reviews in the UK. It was described by the "Birmingham Mail" as an "acclaimed comedy" which "chronicles the more bizarre of America's attempts to kill the Cuban leader Fidel Castro - including filling his shoes with poison and inventing an exploding cigar." The "Daily Telegraph" said "The British dramatist Brian Stewart appears to have got lucky with this intermittently entertaining but rather trite little play about the CIA's plots to bump off Fidel Castro.". Although, Michael Billington of the Guardian was much more complimentary: 'Stewart's weapon is comedy. But his argument, that America will stop at nothing in its defiance of international law, is no different from that of Pinter in his Nobel speech.'. The play was published by Josef Weinberger in 2009. In 2013, the play was translated into Polish by Karolina Mackiewicz and performed in repertory by the Teatr Polski Szczecin as "Operacja Castro"; the director was Bartłomiej Wysozomirski.
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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is a comedy play written by Christopher Durang. The story revolves around the relationships of three middle-aged single siblings, two of whom live together, and takes place during a visit by the third, Masha, who supports them. They discuss their lives and loves, argue, and Masha threatens to sell the house. Some of the show's elements were derived from works of Anton Chekhov, including several character names, the play's setting in a cherry orchard, and the theme of the possible loss of an ancestral home.
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In the Shadow of the Glen In the Shadow of the Glen, also known as "The Shadow of the Glen", is a one-act play written by the Irish playwright J. M. Synge and first performed at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, on October 8, 1903. It was the first of Synge's plays to be performed on stage. It is set in an isolated cottage in County Wicklow in what was then the present day (c. 1903).
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The Tinker's Wedding The Tinker's Wedding is a two-act play by the Irish playwright J. M. Synge, whose main characters - as the title suggests - are Irish Tinkers. It is set on a roadside near a chapel in rural Ireland and premiered 11 November 1909.
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Brian Friel Theatre The Brian Friel Theatre is a studio theatre located at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was opened in February 2009 and is named after the Irish dramatist, theatre director and author, Brian Friel.
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Chekhov's Motifs Chekhov's Motifs (Russian: Чеховские мотивы , translit. Chekhovskie motivy, since released in English as Chekhovian Motifs) is a 2002 Russian-Ukrainian comedy film directed by Kira Muratova. It was entered into the 24th Moscow International Film Festival. It is based on two works of Anton Chekhov: the short story "Difficult People" is divided to frame the one act play "Tatyana Repina".
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Daragh Carville Daragh Carville, born in Armagh in 1969, is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His theatre credits include "Language Roulette" (Bush Theatre, London and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), "Observatory" (Peacock Theatre, Dublin) and "This Other City" (Grand Opera House, Belfast).
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Field Day Theatre Company The Field Day Theatre Company began as an artistic collaboration between playwright Brian Friel and actor Stephen Rea. In 1980, the duo set out to launch a production of Friel's recently completed play, "Translations". They decided to rehearse and premiere the play in Derry with the hope of establishing a major theatre company for Northern Ireland. The production and performance of "Translations" generated a level of excitement and anticipation that unified, if only for a short time, the various factions of a divided community.