Simone Kirby appeared in what Tennessee Williams play that won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama?
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Simone Kirby Simone Kirby is an Irish actress. She is probably best known for playing Oonagh in the Ken Loach film "Jimmy's Hall". Other credits include Irene O'Donnell in "Peaky Blinders" (2014), Marilyn Hull in "Notes on Blindness" (2016), Tyva Hightopp in "Alice Through The Looking Glass" (2016), Sr. Grace in "Houdini and Doyle" (2016), Maria Roche in "The Truth Commissioner" (2016), Annette Rane in "Clean Break" (2015), Tracey Moynihan in "Love/Hate" (2014) and Geraldine Grehan in the RTÉ series "Pure Mule". She co-wrote and performed in the RTÉ comedy sketch show "Meet Your Neighbours" in 2011 with P.J. Gallagher. She also appeared in "Season of the Witch" in 2011. On stage she appeared in "Dancing at Lughnasa" at The Old Vic, "Macbeth" at Shakespeare's Globe, "Molly Sweeney" at the Irish Rep in New York and Curve in Leicester, "Festen" at the Gate Theatre, "Mud" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with the Corn Exchange, Dublin, "Don Carlos" and "The Taming of the Shrew" with Rough Magic and "The Tinker's Wedding" under Garry Hynes for the Druid Theatre Company's DruidSynge. She also portrayed Nuala in "The Cavalcaders" under Robin Lefevre and Lady Teasle in "The School For Scandal" under Jimmy Fay at Dublin's Abbey Theatre.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams. One of Williams's best-known works and his personal favorite, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. Set in the "plantation home in the Mississippi Delta" of Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy cotton tycoon, the play examines the relationships among members of Big Daddy's family, primarily between his son Brick and Maggie the "Cat", Brick's wife.
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The Old Maid (play) The Old Maid is a 1935 play adapted by American playwright Zoë Akins from Edith Wharton's 1924 novella of the same name, included in the collection "Old New York". It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It ran for 305 performances at the Empire Theatre in 1935.
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Stevie (play) Stevie is a 1977 play by Hugh Whitemore, about the life of poet Stevie Smith. The play was filmed in 1978 by Robert Enders, with Glenda Jackson, Mona Washbourne, Alec McCowen and Trevor Howard.
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Talley's Folly Talley's Folly is a 1980 play by American playwright Lanford Wilson, the second in his cycle, "The Talley Trilogy" between his plays "Talley & Son" and "Fifth of July". Set in an old boathouse near rural Lebanon, Missouri in 1944, it is a romantic comedy following the characters Matt Friedman and Sally Talley as they once and for all settle their feelings for each other. Wilson received the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work. The play is unique for Wilson in that it takes place in one act, with no intermission, set in ninety-seven minutes of real time. There is no set change.
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La Passion de Simone La Passion de Simone is an oratorio composed by Kaija Saariaho to a libretto in French by Amin Maalouf, first premiered in a staging by Peter Sellars. The work, subtitled "a musical journey in 15 stations", centers on the life and writings of Simone Weil and was conceived in the Passion Play tradition with episodes in her life linked to the Stations of the Cross. It is composed for SATB chorus, soprano soloist, spoken voice, orchestra and electronic instruments.
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Thomas A. Simone Award The Thomas A. Simone Memorial Football Award is presented yearly to the most outstanding high school football player in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The award was created in 1931 by Dr. D. M. Nigro and continued until Dr. Nigro's death in 1976. The award was reinstated by Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Simone as a tribute to their 12-year-old son Tommy. The award is selected by a vote of the Greater Kansas City Football Coaches Association (GKCFCA), head coaches in the metro area and selected media members.
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Spring Storm Spring Storm is a 1937 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams. Tennessee Williams wrote "Spring Storm" when he was twenty-six years old, in 1937, while studying as an apprentice. "Spring Storm" received poor reviews in Williams’s playwriting course, and it did not receive its first production until 1995 in Berkeley, California. The European premiere took place at the Royal & Derngate Northampton on 15 October 2009, running alongside "Beyond the Horizon" by Eugene O'Neill. Both productions subsequently transferred to the Royal National Theatre in 2010 to the Cottesloe Theatre. Written and rewritten between 1937 and 1938, this full-length play depicts life and conflicted love in a small Mississippi Delta town during the Great Depression.
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The Seven Descents of Myrtle The Seven Descents of Myrtle is a play by Tennessee Williams. It originally began as a short story, which Williams then turned into a one-act play, and then later revised it into the seven-act play that is accepted today. Its title character is reminiscent of another Williams' heroine, Blanche Dubois in "A Streetcar Named Desire".
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Penumbra Theatre Company The Penumbra Theatre Company, an African-American theatre company in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was founded by Lou Bellamy in 1976. The theater has been recognized for its artistic quality and its role in launching the careers of playwrights including two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson.
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The Patriots (play) The Patriots is an award-winning play written in a prologue and three acts by Sidney Kingsley in 1943. It won the New York Drama Critics' Circle award for Best Play, and ran for 173 performances.
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The Parisian Woman The Parisian Woman is a 2013 play in by Beau Willimon. It premiered at the South Coast Repertory, in April 2013 and centers on Chloe, a socialite armed with charm and wit, coming to terms with politics, her past, her marriage and an uncertain future. The play is expected to begin previews on Broadway on November 7, 2017. The play is inspired by Henri Becque’s La Parisienne.
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The Green Pastures The Green Pastures is a play written in 1930 by Marc Connelly adapted from "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun" (1928), a collection of stories written by Roark Bradford. The play was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930.
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The Shrike (play) The Shrike is a play written by American dramatist Joseph Kramm. The play won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Seven Guitars Seven Guitars is a 1995 play by American playwright August Wilson. It focuses on seven African-American characters in the year 1948. The play begins and ends after the funeral of one of the main characters, showing events leading to the funeral in flashbacks. "Seven Guitars" represents the 1940s entry in Wilson's "Pittsburgh Cycle", a decade-by-decade anthology of African-American life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the twentieth century; Wilson would revisit the stories of some of these characters in "King Hedley II", set in the 1980s.
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The Waverley Gallery The Waverly Gallery is a play by Kenneth Lonergan. It is considered a "memory play". The show, first produced Off-Broadway in 2000, follows a grandson watching his grandmother slowly die from Alzheimer's disease. The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001.
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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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Robbie McCauley Robbie McCauley is an African American playwright, director, and performer. She is best known for her plays "Sugar" and "Sally's Rape".
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Yellow Jack (play) Yellow Jack is a 1934 docudrama play produced by Guthrie McClintic and a 1938 Hollywood movie by the same name. Both were co-written by Sidney Howard and Paul de Kruif (the former a Pulitzer- and Oscar-winning playwright and screenwriter; the latter a well-known microbiologist and author). The play is the work of Sidney Howard and is based on a chapter in Paul de Kruif’s 1927 book "Microbe Hunters".
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Paula Vogel Paula Vogel (born November 16, 1951) is an American playwright and university professor. She received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play "How I Learned to Drive". Vogel was Chair of the playwriting department at the Yale School of Drama.
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Sidney Howard Memorial Award The Sidney Howard Memorial Award was a notable but short-lived theater prize established in 1939. It was designed to support new playwrights who had no notable successes but had shown promise. Among the awardees are Robert Ardrey and Tennessee Williams.
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Roy Williams (playwright) Roy Samuel Williams, OBE (born 5 January 1968) is an English playwright. Williams has many awards including the George Devine Award for "Lift Off", the 2001 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright for his play "Clubland", the 2002 BAFTA Award for Best Schools Drama for "Offside" and 2004 South Bank Show Arts Council Decibel Award. Most recently his play "Sucker Punch" was nominated for the "Evening Standard" Award for Best New Play and the Olivier Award for Best New Play 2011. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours and sits on the board of trustees for Theatre Centre.