It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

( When Christie adapted Witness into a stage play, she lengthened the ending so that the murderer was also killed.

The film was based on the stage play.

A three-act stage play based on the pilot was written by David Rogers in 1968.

In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage.

Several performances of the play have even ignored the stage direction to have the Ghost of Banquo enter at all, heightening the sense that Macbeth is growing mad, since the audience cannot see what he claims to see.

A football club was formed at the university soon afterward, although its rules of play at this stage are unclear.

They play a pivotal role in completion stage practices, where an attempt is made to bring the subtle winds of the body into the central channel, to realise the clear light of bliss and emptiness, and to attain Buddhahood.

In 2003 he performed in Bob Balaban-directed Off-Broadway dramatic stage play The Exonerated in New York during its 18 – 23 March, week run.

There was, at some stage during the making of the album an attempt to relate the material to firstly the idea of aging, then as an obscure radio play about the life of an ex-army bandsman and his shortcomings.

It is Irving's sixth published novel, and has been adapted into a film of the same name and a stage play by Peter Parnell.

* Trumbo, a 2007 documentary by Peter Askin based on Christopher Trumbo's stage play

* 1660 – A woman ( either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall ) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.

Current League Champions and the first Irish side to reach the group stages of a European competition: 2011 – 12 UEFA Europa League group stage Shamrock Rovers play at Tallaght Stadium in South Dublin, play at Richmond Park, and play their home games at the UCD Bowl in Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, while is based at Tolka Park.

Hopkins later directed a film version of the stage play, to which he also wrote the musical score.

" By the end of the following year he had taken up the ukelele and tea-chest bass and begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano ; meanwhile his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berry — complete with gyrations in tribute to the original artists — to his local Wolf Cub group was described as " mesmerizing ... like someone from another planet.

Déjà Vu is a 1991 stage play by John Osborne.

Munch's figures appear to play roles on a theatre stage ( Death in the Sick-Room ), whose pantomime of fixed postures signify various emotions ; since each character embodies a single psychological dimension, as in The Scream, Munch's men and women now appear more symbolic than realistic.

Other independent companies were grouped under the Mutual banner in 1912, and there were also important new entrants, particularly the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company, and Famous Players, which were both formed in 1913 to take advantage of the fact that films could reproduce the real substance of a stage play ( plus embellishments ), and so the best plays and actors from the legitimate stage could be enticed into films.

Her first appearance on the stage was at Haymarket in 1755 as Miranda in Mrs Centlivre's play, Busybody.

In 1960, he directed Allen Drury's stage play Advise and Consent.

Banks would play in ten of the next 12 internationals as England tried to qualify for the 1972 European Championships but lost yet again to West Germany prior to the finals stage.

Frontman King Diamond, who wore ghoulish black-and-white facepaint on stage, inspired what became known as " corpse paint ".

For the 2010 – 2011 Time Machine Tour, Lee's side of the stage featured a Steampunk inspired combination Time Machine and Sausage Maker.

Jacques Lacan, inspired by Heidegger and Saussure, built on Freud's psychoanalytic model of the subject, in which the " split subject " is constituted by a double bind: alienated from jouissance when he or she leaves the Real, enters into the Imaginary ( during the mirror stage ), and separates from the Other when he or she comes into the realm of language, difference, and demand in the Symbolic or the Name of the Father.

The New York duo Suicide played spare, experimental music with a confrontational stage act inspired by that of The Stooges.

A personal reply she received from Hazel Dawn ( whom she had seen in a stage production of The Pink Lady ) inspired her to go into acting.

In the 1960s, inspired by Screamin ' Jay Hawkins, he changed his stage name to " Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow ", despite having no connection with the peerage.

The trilogy inspired a number of direct adaptations, including a stage play and a comic book series, and numerous indirect adaptations that borrowed from its themes.

A large medieval tapestry unified the fairly simple stage design and underscored Latham's fairy-tale inspired direction.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

Melies, the stage manager at the Theatre Robert-Houdin, was inspired to develop a series of more than 500 short films, between 1914, in the process developing or inventing such techniques as multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand painted colour.

Prior to this version, the book had inspired a number of now-less-well-known stage and screen adaptations, including a profitable Broadway musical and three silent films.

The story of Hua Mulan has inspired a number of screen and stage adaptations without taking into account pre-modern Chinese plays and operas about the subject.

He worked as a cook and valet, and one of his employers was the actor-manager Samuel Foote, who may have inspired him to take to the stage.

According to some reports, Kiss Me Kate, a 1953 filmic adaptation of the Cole Porter musical Kiss Me, Kate was inspired by the backstage antics of Lunt and Fontanne, who continually fought both on and off stage, but who always reconciled, both on and off stage.

Last of the Summer Wine inspired other adaptations, including a television prequel, several novelisations, and stage adaptations.

* Love Story ( musical ), a 2010 stage musical inspired by the novel

The film has inspired a musical stage version, Ghost The Musical, which had its world premiere at Manchester Opera House in March 2011 before transferring to the Piccadilly Theatre in London's West End in June 2011.

Film historian Eric Reade claims the Taits themselves owned the stage rights to a Kelly play, while actors Sam Crewe and John Forde later also claimed to have thought of the idea of a making a film of the Kelly Gang's exploits, inspired by the success of stage plays.

Their sound was inspired by Farrelly's interest in world music, though most observers thought O ' Connor's singing and stage presence were the band's strongest features.

They inspired various members of The Sex Pistols, especially guitarist Steve Jones, who later said that looking back at his movements on stage, he was embarrassed by how much he copied Johnny Thunders ' style.

Gokhale ’ s firm belief in the need for universal education deeply inspired the next great man on the Indian political stage, Mohandas K. Gandhi ; his faith in western political institutions though rejected by Gandhi, was adopted by an independent India in 1950.

This celebration included a free mailout Club Nintendo offer of the Ocarina of Time soundtrack to owners of the 3DS version of that particular game, special posters that are mailed out as rewards through Club Nintendo, and a special stage inspired by the original Legend of Zelda in the video game Super Mario 3D Land for the 3DS.