As the play opens the audience is introduced to the community of Salem in Puritan America at the end of the eighteenth century.

The play opens amidst thunder and lightning, and the Three Witches decide that their next meeting shall be with Macbeth.

* 1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London later becoming the longest continuously-running play in history.

The play opens with Roderigo, a rich and dissolute gentleman, complaining to Iago, a high-ranking soldier, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army.

In the game of poker, opens and raises are considered aggressive plays, while calls and checks are considered passive ( though a check-raise would be considered a very aggressive play ).

The play opens with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern betting on coin flips.

Examining him will cause a jingle ( that which plays when the player completes a puzzle or opens a doorway in The Legend of Zelda games ) to play.

In 2005 the Abbey Theatre produced the play with an all male cast ; it also featured Wilde as a character – the play opens with him drinking in a Parisian café, dreaming of his play .. More recently the Melbourne Theatre Company staged a production in December 2011 with Geoffrey Rush playing Lady Bracknell.

Set in “ The Present ” ( 1895 ) in London, the play opens with Algernon Moncrieff, an idle young gentleman, receiving his best friend, John Worthing, whom he knows as Ernest.

The play opens with Estragon struggling to remove a boot.

Act II opens with Vladimir singing a recursive round about a dog, which could illustrate the cyclical nature of the play's universe, and also point toward the play's debt to the carnivalesque, music hall traditions, and vaudeville comedy ( this is only one of a number of canine references and allusions in the play ).

* December 25 – Why Marry ?, the first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City.

* July 12 – Laurence Olivier's film Henry V, based on Shakespeare's play, opens in London.

* April 19 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, a musical play based on Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, opens on Broadway and becomes their second long-running stage classic.

* January 5 – The play The Scarlet Pimpernel opens at the New Theatre in London and begins a run of 122 performances and numerous revivals.

** The Fantasticks, the world's longest-running musical, opens at New York City's Sullivan Street Playhouse where it will play for 42 years.

* February 7 – The play La vida alegre y muerte triste by dramatist José Echegaray opens.

* October 12 – The play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York.

* December 27 – Kern and Hammerstein's musical play, Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber's novel, opens on Broadway and then goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theater.

* October – The first national stage in Sweden opens when the play Den Svenska Sprätthöken is performed in the native language, by the first native actors, on the stage of Bollhuset in Stockholm.

The play opens with a formal ceremony in which King Lear seemingly divides his kingdom among his daughters according to their avowals of their love for him.

The play opens on 10 April 1809, in a garden front room of a country house in Derbyshire with tutor Septimus Hodge trying to distract his 13 year-old pupil Thomasina from her enquiries as to the meaning of a " carnal embrace " by challenging her to prove Fermat's Last Theorem so he can focus on reading the poem ' The Couch of Eros ', a piece written by another character, Mr. Ezra Chater.

The play is based on the Spanish legends about the Moorish invasion of Spain in the eighth century.

Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to Brooks as Garth Vader ( a play on Darth Vader ) for his " invasion " of the charts and his success in the country genre.

He did not play any significant role in Pakistan's proxy war in the 1979 – 89 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy.

A mock trial of Henry V for the crimes associated with the legality of the invasion and the slaughter of prisoners was held in Washington, D. C. in March 2010, drawing from both historical record and Shakespeare's play.

After the Beatles-led British invasion of 1964, Balin was inspired by the merging of folk with rock, spearheaded by the success of The Byrds and Simon & Garfunkel, and decided to form a group in 1965 to play this hybrid style.

At the start of the play, Dionysus gives us the exposition and from which we can highlight the play's central conflict ; the invasion of Greece by an Asian religion.

A review in The Daily Telegraph argued that the play misrepresented Poles as " just itching for the German invasion as the excuse to give violent vent to their deep-rooted anti-Semitism " and " too often [...] looked like an object lesson in gross simplification.

This certainly affected the way that early audiences reacted to the play, just as the invasion of Athens and its diminished power surely affected Sophocles as he wrote it.

The original play Heddatron by Elizabeth Meriwether melds Hedda Gabler with a modern family ’ s search for love despite the invasion of technology into everyday life.

Gillars made her most notorious broadcast on May 11, 1944, just prior to the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, in a radio play written by Koischwitz, ‘ Vision Of Invasion ’.

* Earth can also play host to alien invasion.

In 1982 she pursued another private prosecution, this time against Michael Bogdanov, the director of a National Theatre production of Howard Brenton's The Romans in Britain, a play that " drew a direct parallel between the Roman invasion of Celtic Britain in 54 BC and the contemporary British presence in Northern Ireland.

Viral infection with secondary bacterial invasion may be one mechanism of the initiation of chronic disease, but the effects of the environment, host factors, the widespread use of antibiotics, ecological considerations, and diet all may play a role.

This was to later play a part in the detection of the Operation Torch invasion fleet.

The play is set after the U. S. invasion of Afghanistan.

* December 11 – Four United States Marine Corps F4F Wildcat fighters on Wake Island play an important role in repelling a Japanese invasion of the island.

The invasion of the Soviet Union was now underway, but the Division would play no role during the first summer.

**: Has players play the part of Granny, who has discovered plans for an alien invasion that must be stopped at all costs.

Although the structure had not been intended to play a role in the invasion, it was an ideal field fortification.

* Quinn -- an alien trapped in a human host since the invasion of ’ 53, mysteriously immune to bacteria, and ready to play both of the major warring factions against each other for his own favor.

He continued to deputise occasionally as captain of England's one-day side, and became the second international captain to concede a match in 2001, after a pitch invasion during a One Day International against Pakistan rendered the continuation of play impossible.

This antigen may also play a role in erythrocyte invasion in the rodent malarial parasite P. yoelii.

After Louis II's marriage to Mary of Habsburg, Óvár became a key defense on the Austrian border, which would come into play during the Turkish invasion.

The play is a comedy concerning Hannibal's botched invasion of Rome.

His 1940 play, There Shall Be No Night told the story of the Russian invasion of Finland.