Bayad plays the oud to The Lady.

The main characters of the tale are Bayad, a merchant's son and a foreigner from Damascus, and Riyad, a well educated girl in the court of an unnamed Hajib ( vizier or minister ) of ' Iraq which is referred to as the lady.

from the Riyad & Bayad, Arabic tale

Another medieval Arabic love story was Hadith Bayad wa Riyad ( The Story of Bayad and Riyad ), a 13th-century Arabic love story.

* Hadith Bayad wa Riyad, Arabic love tale

Another medieval Arabic love story was Hadith Bayad wa Riyad ( The Story of Bayad and Riyad ), a 13th-century Arabic love story written in al-Andalus.

File: MongolianDance. JPG | Mongolian girl performing Bayad dance

The Hadith Bayad wa Riyad manuscript is believed to be the only illustrated manuscript known to have survived from more than eight centuries of Muslim and Arab presence in Spain.

The Hadith Bayad wa Riyad manuscript is believed to be the only illustrated manuscript known to have survived from more than eight centuries of Muslim and Arab presence in Spain.

* Qissat Bayad wa Riyad قصة بياض و رياض, Arab-Andalusian love story about Bayad, a merchant's son and a foreigner from Damascus, for Riyad, a well educated slave girl in the court of an unnamed Hajib ( vizier or minister ) and his daughter.

The main characters of the tale are Bayad, a merchant's son and a foreigner from Damascus, and Riyad, a well educated girl in the court of an unnamed Hajib of al-Andalus ( vizier or minister ), whose equally unnamed daughter, whose retinue includes Riyad, is referred to as the Lady.

Taken from the Tale of Bayad and Riyad

Among stringed instruments, he plays the oud and the bağlama.

Enzo Rao ( born January 13, 1957 in Palermo ) is an Italian musician who plays a number of instruments, including bass guitar, oud, saz, jaw harp and violin, in a variety of folk and popular styles.

" Isis and Osiris ", on which Charlie Haden replaces Cecil McBee on bass, and Vishnu Wood plays oud, indicates Coltrane's interest in Middle Eastern and North African music and culture.

The consort of Ea, known as Ninhursag, Ki, Uriash Damkina, " lady of that which is below ", or Damgalnunna, " big lady of the waters ", originally was fully equal with Ea, but in more patriarchal Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian times plays a part merely in association with her lord.

The lady plays a portative organ on top of a table covered with a Turkish rug.

Before being sent to the Nara monks, Shigehira is treated well at Izu ( a bath is prepared for him, wine is served, a beautiful lady serving Yoritomo, Senju-no-mae, sings several songs ( with Buddhist meaning ) and plays the lute ; Shigehira also sings and plays the lute – after Shigehira ’ s execution, Senju-no-mae becomes a nun ).

Arletty ’ s career took off around 1936, when she appeared as leading lady in the stage plays Les Joies du Capitole and Fric-Frac, in which she starred opposite Michel Simon.

It is the most performed of all his plays and inspired British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to declaim, " You turn if you want to — the lady ’ s not for turning ," at the Conservative Party conference in 1980.

* Varvara Stavrogina is Nikolai's mother and is a rich lady who plays at being leftist.

In this film, MacDonald plays a hitman who becomes engaged to the leading lady, played by Smithers.

After leaving Cornell, Phillips began his show business career performing in Broadway and off-Broadway plays – at many different theatres, including the Direct Theatre where he won the Best of the Actors ’ Festival in 1977, the Wonderhorse Theatre in the premier of Christopher Durang ’ s The Nature and Purpose of the Universe, with Ellen Greene, and at Playwrights Horizons in a revival of Eccentricities of a Nightingale ( Tennessee Williams helped shape the production, and ended up writing a new monologue for Phillips, which Williams personally dictated to Phillips on tech day when it was realized the leading lady, Jill Eikenberry, needed more time for a dress change ).

Leading lady is an informal term for the actress who plays a secondary lead or supporting role, usually a love interest, to the leading actor in a film or play.

There was also one major departure from the usual format, in which William Shakespeare was joined by several characters from his plays, with Meadows playing the role of the " dark lady " of his sonnets.

Furthermore, haughty Gene Tierney plays the lady who is slightly off the track and Charles Bickford and Richard Conte are the detective and the husband, respectively.

As the intrigue plays out, the lady does not sit idly by and watch the men duel over her ; she must help Jamison overcome the evil plans of Lafond so they have a chance to live happily ever after.

Melanie ( now an elderly lady ) sits weeping in front of a mirror filled with the shape of an enormous skull, while a music box plays.

" ( Nada, leading lady ) a triple bill of plays by Luigi Pirandello-New End Theatre, London.

Many actors that appear in minor roles went on to play more important ones in Almodóvar ’ s subsequent films: Kiti Manaver ( Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ) plays a hot-tempered, Andalusian rock singer ; Julieta Serrano ( Dark Habits ); Cecilia Roth ( All About My Mother ); Fabio MacNamara ( Labyrinth of Passion ), a singer and painter, plays a transvestite Avon lady ;

* In episode 4, season 1 of " Family Guy ", " Mind Over Murder ", Lois Griffin is rocking a sleeping and teething Stewie Griffin while her piano student plays a lullaby.

Lucifer is the light spirit, which " plays on human pride and offers the delusion of divinity ", but also motivates creativity and spirituality ; Ahriman is the dark spirit, which tempts human beings to "... deny link with divinity and to live entirely on the material plane ", but also stimulates intellectuality and technology.

In a dual performance he also plays the dictator " Adenoid Hynkle ", a parody of Hitler which Maland sees as revealing the " megalomania, narcissism, compulsion to dominate, and disregard for human life " of the German dictator.

This was already noted by Chaplin's contemporaries, such as Sigmund Freud, who thought that Chaplin " always plays only himself as he was in his dismal youth ", and by some of his collaborators, such as actress Claire Bloom, who starred in Limelight.

* Nuovo teatro comico, " New Comic Theater ", plays.

Another rule change banned " mass momentum " plays ( many of which, like the infamous " flying wedge ", were sometimes literally deadly ).

The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

However, " his plays continued to be applauded even after those of Aeschylus and Sophocles had come to seem remote and irrelevant ", they became school classics in the Hellenistic period ( as mentioned in the introduction ) and, due to Seneca's adaptation of his work for Roman audiences, " it was Euripides, not Aeschylus or Sophocles, whose tragic muse presided over the rebirth of tragedy in Renaissance Europe.

Onna Roll records, with artists including Nasty Boys and Donna Williams, realized mainstream success with the single, " What I'm Feeling ", which with 63 plays was the most played single in a single day on WKTU.

" He claimed it led to situations such as councils calling Christmas " Winterval ", schools refusing to put on nativity plays and crosses removed from chapels, though others have disputed this.

They have entered two plays into the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, D. C .. Their 2007 show, For Boston, won " Best Comedy ", and their second show, The Sticking Place, won " Best Overall " in 2008.

Also based in London, Le Nouveau Guignol form the UK's only permanent reparatory Grand Guignol company ; plays within their current repertoire include French Guignol classics such as " The Final Kiss ", " Tics ... Or Doing the Deed ", " The Lighthouse Keepers ", " Private Room Number Six " and " The Kiss of Blood ".

However, as their company remit also includes encouraging new writing, they have also staged several new plays in the Grand-Guignol style, including " Eating For Two ", " Penalty " and " Ways and Means ".

( In this image, Kingsley's artist plays with the words " large pair of white spectacles ", intended to mean the natural white patches on the bird's face.

Lee also plays bass on Canadian rock band I Mother Earth's track " Good For Sule ", which is featured on the group's album " Blue Green Orange ", released in 1999.

" Though Heraclitus " quite deliberately plays on the various meanings of logos ", there is no compelling reason to suppose that he used it in a special technical sense, significantly different from the way it was used in ordinary Greek of his time.

* Lindisfarne plays a key role in " Conqueror ", the second book of the Time's Tapestry series by Stephen Baxter.