What was the nationality of the playwright who wrote the one-act theatrical sketch Rough for Theatre I?
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Rough for Theatre I Rough for Theatre I is a one-act theatrical sketch by Samuel Beckett. Also known simply as Theatre I it began life originally in French in the late fifties as Fragment de théâtre and was later translated into English by Beckett himself. The first production was at the Schiller Theatre, Hamburg in 1979, directed by Walter Asmus. It was staged as Fragment for Theater I at the Magic Theater, San Francisco in September 1986 by Stan Gontarski with Robert Wagner (A) and Tom Luce (B).
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Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett ( ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French.
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Tom McGrath (playwright) Tom McGrath (23 October 1940 – 29 April 2009) was a Scottish playwright and jazz pianist.
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Martin Blank (playwright) Martin Blank is an American playwright, screenwriter, and theatrical producer.
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Millicent Armstrong Millicent Sylvia Armstrong (1 May 1888 – 18 November 1973) was an Australian playwright and farmer who wrote primarily about the experiences of country life in early 20th century Australia.
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Jason Charles Jason Charles is a London-based playwright, novelist, short-story writer, lyricist, poet, actor and performance poet.
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Lajos Egri Lajos N. Egri (June 4, 1888 – February 7, 1967) was the author of "The Art of Dramatic Writing", which is widely regarded as one of the best works on the subject of playwriting, though its teachings have since been adapted for the writing of short stories, novels, and screenplays. He is also the author of the companion textbook, "The Art of Creative Writing", which further expounds on similar subjects.
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Denman Thompson Henry Denman Thompson (October 15, 1833 – April 14, 1911) was an American playwright and theatre actor.
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Edmond Rochefort Edmond Rochefort, full name Claude-Louis-Marie de Rochefort-Luçay (Évaux-les-Bains, 1790 – Paris, April 1871), was a French writer, dramatist, vaudevillist and songs writer. His only play that was met with some success is "Jocko ou le Singe du Brésil", presented at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris.
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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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John Cargill Thompson John Cargill Thompson (1938 - 2000) was a Scottish dramatist specialising in one-person plays. After the performance of his 52nd play, he was described as "Britain's most prolific playwright", surpassing Shakespeare's 37 and Alan Ayckbourn's 51.
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John Retallack John Retallack (born 1950) is a British playwright and director.
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Noises Off Noises Off is a 1982 play by the English playwright Michael Frayn. The idea for it came in 1970, when Frayn was watching from the wings a performance of "The Two of Us", a farce that he had written for Lynn Redgrave. He said, "It was funnier from behind than in front, and I thought that one day I must write a farce from behind." The prototype, a short-lived one-act play called "Exits", was written and performed in 1977. At the request of his associate, Michael Codron, Frayn expanded this into what would become "Noises Off". It takes its title from the theatrical stage direction indicating sounds coming from offstage.
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Martin Esslin Martin Julius Esslin OBE (6 June 1918 – 24 February 2002) was a Hungarian-born English producer, dramatist, journalist, adaptor and translator, critic, academic scholar and professor of drama, best known for coining the term "Theatre of the Absurd" in his work of the same name ("Theatre of the Absurd"; 1961). This work has been called "the most influential theatrical text of the 1960s" by some reviewers.
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Michael Townsend Smith Michael Townsend Smith (born October 5, 1935) is an American man of the theater. He has worked as a playwright, director, impresario, critic, and lighting designer.
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Snoo Wilson Andrew James Wilson (2 August 1948 – 3 July 2013), better known as Snoo Wilson, was an English playwright, screenwriter and director. His early plays such as "Blow-Job" (1971) were overtly political, often combining harsh social comment with comedy. In his later works he moved away from purely political themes, embracing a range of surrealist, magical, philosophical and madcap, darkly comic subjects.
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Peter Moffat Peter Moffat is an English playwright and screenwriter.
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Seán O'Casey Seán O'Casey ( ; Irish: "Seán Ó Cathasaigh" , ] ; born John Casey, 30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.
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Nude with Violin Nude with Violin is a play in three acts by Noël Coward. A light comedy of manners, the play is Coward's satire on "Modern Art", criticism, artistic pretension and the value placed on art.
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This Happy Breed This Happy Breed is a play by Noël Coward. It was written in 1939 but, because of the outbreak of World War II, it was not staged until 1942, when it was performed on alternating nights with another Coward play, "Present Laughter". The two plays later alternated with Coward's "Blithe Spirit". The title, a reference to the English people, is a phrase from John of Gaunt's monologue in Act II, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's "Richard II".
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The Golden Rump The Golden Rump is a farcical play of unknown authorship said to have been written in 1737. It acted as the chief trigger for the Theatrical Licensing Act of 1737. The play has never been performed on stage or published in print. No manuscript of the play survives, casting some doubt over whether it ever existed in full at all. The authorship of the play has often been ascribed to Henry Fielding, at that time a popular and prolific playwright who often turned his incisive satire against the monarch George II and particularly the "prime minister" Sir Robert Walpole. Modern literary historians, however, increasingly embrace the opinion that "The Golden Rump" may have been secretly commissioned by Walpole himself in a successful bid to get his Bill for theatrical licensing passed before the legislature.
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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.