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The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was first proposed by Georges Polti in 1895 to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. [1] Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works.
The Diary of Anne Frank (play) The Diary of Anne Frank. (play) The Diary of Anne Frank is a stage adaptation of the posthumously published 1947 book The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. It premiered on Broadway at the Cort Theatre in 1955. Its script also primarily formed the basis of the Academy Award -winning 1959 film adaptation.
English Renaissance theatre may be said to encompass Elizabethan theatre from 1562 to 1603, Jacobean theatre from 1603 to 1625, and Caroline theatre from 1625 to 1642. Along with the economics of the profession, the character of the drama changed towards the end of the period. Under Elizabeth, the drama was a unified expression as far as social ...
William Tell. (play) William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell, German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈtɛl] ⓘ) is a drama written by Friedrich Schiller in 1804. The story focuses on the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell as part of the greater Swiss struggle for independence from the Habsburg Empire in the early 14th century.
Date premiered. 12 August 1958. Place premiered. United Kingdom. Original language. English. The Unexpected Guest is a 1958 play by crime writer Agatha Christie. The play opened in the West End at the Duchess Theatre on 12 August 1958 [1] after a previous try-out at the Bristol Hippodrome. It was directed by Hubert Gregg.
The play was first published in a publication called "The Works of Nikolai Gogol" in 1842. This publication was the fourth section of "Dramatic Excerpts and Other Scenes". The whole section was dated by Gogol himself from 1832 to 1837. The final version of "The Gamblers" was released in 1842 but the play had been in the works before then.
The Chip Woman's Fortune is a 1923 one act play written by American playwright Willis Richardson. The play was produced by The Ethiopian Art Theatre [1] and is historically important as the first serious work by an African American playwright to be presented on Broadway. Although Broadway had seen African American musical comedies and revues ...
Relatively Speaking (Ayckbourn play) Relatively Speaking. (Ayckbourn play) The bed-sitting-room of Ginny's London flat and on the garden patio of Sheila and Philip's home in Buckinghamshire, 1965. Relatively Speaking is a 1965 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn, originally titled Meet My Father, his first major success.