Who wrote the play "...but the clouds..." starring Billie Whitelaw and Ronald Pickup?
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... but the clouds ... ... but the clouds ... is a television play by Samuel Beckett. Beckett wrote it between October–November 1976 “to replace a film of "Play" which the BBC had sent [him] for approval (and which he had rejected)” due to “the poor quality of the film”. Donald McWhinnie directed Billie Whitelaw and Ronald Pickup. It was first broadcast on 17 April 1977 as part of a programme of three Beckett plays entitled ‘Shades’ on BBC2. It was first published in "Ends and Odds" (Faber) 1977. An early title for the piece was Poetry only love.
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Ronald Pickup Ronald Alfred Pickup (born 7 June 1940) is an English actor who has been active in television and film since 1964.
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The Lake (play) The Lake is a British play written by Dorothy Massingham and Murray MacDonald. It debuted on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on December 26, 1933 and was one of acting legend Katharine Hepburn's first major Broadway roles.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1912 play) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a Broadway play that debuted at the Little Theatre on West 44th Street, New York City, on October 31, 1912. Based on the stories by the Brothers Grimm, it was produced by Winthrop Ames who had written it under the pseudonym "Jessie Braham White." The play met with favorable reviews and became the basis for the 1916 film, "Snow White".
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2071 (play) The play 2071 is a "dramatised lecture" written by Chris Rapley, a climate scientist, and playwright Duncan MacMillan. It was first performed in 2014 at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
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Joseph Arthur (playwright) Joseph Arthur (1848 – February 20, 1906) was an American playwright best known for his popular (though not critically acclaimed) melodramatic plays of the 1880s and 1890s, including "The Still Alarm" (1887) and "Blue Jeans" (1890).
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Your Own Thing Your Own Thing is a rock-styled musical comedy loosely based on "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare. It premiered off-Broadway in early 1968. The music and lyrics are by Hal Hester and Danny Apolinar with the book adaptation by Donald Driver, who also directed the original production. The show was a success, running for 937 performances Off-Broadway and then touring and playing in London and Australia.
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Sidney Kingsley Sidney Kingsley (22 October 1906 – 20 March 1995) was an American dramatist. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play "Men in White" in 1934.
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There Shall Be No Night There Shall Be No Night is a three-act play written by American playwright Robert E. Sherwood.
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Billie Whitelaw Billie Honor Whitelaw, CBE (6 June 1932 – 21 December 2014) was an English actress. She worked in close collaboration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and was regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works. She was also known for her portrayal of Mrs. Baylock, the demonic nanny in the 1976 horror film "The Omen".
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Quadrille (play) Quadrille is a play by Noël Coward. The romantic comedy premiered in 1952 and starred Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt. It played on Broadway in 1955, where Lunt won a Tony Award for his performance.
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Dew Drop Inn (musical) Dew Drop Inn is a musical with music by Alfred Goodman, lyrics by Cyrus Wood, and a book by Walter DeLeon and Edward Delaney Dunn. While Goodman was the principal composer for the work, composers Rudolf Friml, John Frederick Coots, and Jean Schwartz also contributed songs to the show in collaboration with lyricist McElbert Moore.
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Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill is a play with music by Lanie Robertson, recounting some events in the life of Billie Holiday. The play originally premiered in 1986 at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, and soon played Off-Broadway. The play opened on Broadway in 2014.
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Bus Stop (William Inge play) Bus Stop is a 1955 play by William Inge. The 1956 film of the same name is only loosely based on it.
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The Chalk Garden The Chalk Garden is a play by Enid Bagnold that premiered on Broadway in 1955. The play tells the story of Mrs. St. Maugham and her granddaughter Laurel, a disturbed child under the care of Miss Madrigal, a governess. The setting of the play was inspired by Bagnold's own garden at North End House in Rottingdean, near Brighton, Sussex, the former home of Sir Edward Burne-Jones. The work has since been revived numerous times internationally, including a film adaptation in 1964.
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Curtain Call For Clifford Curtain Call For Clifford is a three-act comedy play by William Dalzell and Newt Mitzman. It is published by Samuel French, Inc.. While the play has existed for a number of years, it is predominantly performed in schools and community theaters.
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Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (film) Painting the Clouds with Sunshine is the title of a Technicolor musical film released in 1951, directed by David Butler and starring Dennis Morgan and Virginia Mayo (singing voice was dubbed by Bonnie Lou Williams). The film is a musical adaptation of the 1919 play "The Gold Diggers" by Avery Hopwood. It is the fourth film adaptation of the play, after "The Gold Diggers" (1923), "Gold Diggers of Broadway" (1929) and "Gold Diggers of 1933" (1933). The film features two songs from "Gold Diggers of Broadway": the title song and "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"; as well as a song from "Gold Diggers of 1933", "We're in the Money".
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The Devils (play) The Devils is a play, commissioned by Sir Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company and written by British dramatist John Whiting, based on Aldous Huxley's book, "The Devils of Loudun".
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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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We're Rich Again We're Rich Again is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy-drama film starring Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke and Marian Nixon. A formerly wealthy family tries to stave off bankruptcy until one of them can marry a rich man. It is based on the play "And Who Will Be Clever" by Alden Nash.
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Major Barbara (film) Major Barbara is a 1941 British film starring Wendy Hiller and Rex Harrison. The film was produced and directed by Gabriel Pascal and edited by David Lean. It was adapted for the screen by Marjorie Deans and Anatole de Grunwald, based on the 1905 stage play "Major Barbara" by George Bernard Shaw. It was both a critical and financial success.
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The Cedar Tree (musical) The Cedar Tree is an Australian musical play produced in the wake of the success of "Collits' Inn". The 1934 Melbourne production at the Princess Theatre was presented by F. W. Thring and starred Gladys Moncrieff.