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All in the Timing. All in the Timing is a collection of one-act plays by the American playwright David Ives, written between 1987 and 1993. It had its premiere Off-Broadway in 1993 at Primary Stages, [1] and was revived at Primary Stages in 2013. [2] It was first published by Dramatists Play Service in 1994, with a collection of six plays ...
The Palooka. The Palooka is a 1937 one-act about an old has-been boxer. The characters are The Palooka (Galveston Joe), The Kid and The Trainer. The Kid is nervous about his first fight, and The Palooka relieves the Kid's anxiety by telling about the fictional life he wanted to lead after he retired as Galveston Joe.
Come and Go. Come and Go is a short play (described as a "dramaticule" on its title page) by Samuel Beckett. It was written in English in January 1965 and first performed (in German) at the Schillertheater, Berlin on 14 January 1966. Its English language premiere was at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin on 28 February 1968, and its British premiere ...
Variations on the Death of Trotsky is a short one-act comedy-drama written by David Ives for the series of one-act plays titled All in the Timing. The play fictionalizes the death of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky through a number of distinct variations, though all from the same, historically accurate cause: a wound to the head by an ice axe—referred to in the play as a "mountain-climber ...
No Exit. No Exit (French: Huis clos, pronounced [ɥi klo]) is a 1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre. The play was first performed at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in May 1944. [1] The play begins with three characters who find themselves waiting in a mysterious room. It is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased ...
Running time. 12 minutes. Country. Ireland. Language. English. Budget. €5,500 (estimated) Stutterer is a short drama film written and directed by Benjamin Cleary [1] and produced by Serena Armitage and Shan Christopher Ogilvie.
The Go-Between (1970) The Homecoming (1969) Langrishe, Go Down (1970; adapted for TV 1978; film release 2002) The Proust Screenplay (1972) — published 1978, but unproduced for film; adapted by Harold Pinter and director Di Trevis for the stage (2000); cf. Remembrance of Things Past. The Last Tycoon (1974)
A desert. Act Without Words I is a short play by Samuel Beckett. It is a mime, Beckett's first (followed by Act Without Words II ). Like many of Beckett's works, the play was originally written in French ( Acte sans paroles I ), being translated into English by Beckett himself. It was written in 1956 following a request from the dancer Deryk ...