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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)
The Pillowman is a 2003 play by British-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. It received its first public reading in an early version at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 1995, also a final and completed version of the play was publicly read in 1998 and then finished and released as a book in some places in 1999. Production started in 2000 for ...
Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written", [1] it presents the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens. Wilder uses metatheatrical devices, setting the play in the ...
The story describes the events which lead up to the reformation of an ex-convict. In 1910, dramatist Paul Armstrong adapted the story into a highly successful Broadway play under the title Alias Jimmy Valentine which ran 155 performances at Wallack's Theatre in New York. The play was subsequently adapted for several film versions:
Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan is a play in one act by David Belasco adapted from John Luther Long 's 1898 short story "Madame Butterfly". It premiered on March 5, 1900, at the Herald Square Theatre in New York City and became one of Belasco's most famous works. The play and Long's short story served as the basis for the libretto of ...
The play is based on a short story, itself based on the radio play, but Christie asked that the story not be published as long as it ran as a play in the West End of London. The short story has still not been published within the UK but it has appeared in the US in the 1950 collection Three Blind Mice and Other Stories. When she wrote the play ...
T. The Tale of Hongxian. The Tale of Huo Xiaoyu. Tale of the Transcendent Marriage of Dongting Lake. Toba Tek Singh (short story) The Turning (short story collection)
Alan Bennett in London, 1973. Alan Bennett is an English playwright.. Having started at the Royal National Theatre, he became known for such works as Talking Heads, The Madness of King George, The History Boys, The Lady in the Van and The Habit of Art.