The latter plays a prominent role in Roman Catholic theology and is considered decisive, entirely apart from Scripture, in determining the ethical character of birth-prevention methods.

Arau has made many appearances as a character actor in American and TV series and plays.

The contra-auguste plays the role of the mediator between the whiteface character and the auguste character.

Thompson plays a fictional character on the television series Law and Order.

Aristophanes scripted him as a character in at least three plays: The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs.

Unlike Sophocles, who established the setting and background of his plays in the introductory dialogue, Euripides used a monologue in which a divinity or human character directly and simply tells the audience all it needs to know in order to understand the subsequent action.

Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare.

She then plays a character named " Laliari " while wearing the name Jane Doe as an actress.

Grant plays a scientist reminiscent of his character in Bringing up Baby, who creates a formula that increases his vitality.

* Hex ( Doctor Who ), a character in the Big Finish Productions audio plays based on the television series Doctor Who

For example, in Shakespeare's day, plays were usually expected to follow the advice of Aristotle in his Poetics: that a drama should focus on action, not character.

He took the pseudonym " Brand " from a fictional character in one of Henrik Ibsen ´ s plays.

The film used fight clips from Cagney's 1932 boxing movie Winner Take All, although Cagney plays a different character in the TV-movie.

Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.

His translation work has also led him to appear as a character in three plays dealing with the King James Bible, Howard Brenton's Anne Boleyn ( 2010 ), Jonathan Holmes ' Into Thy Hands ( 2011 ) and David Edgar's Written on the Heart ( 2011 ).

Works in which the character of Mark Antony plays a central role include:

The character strongly resembles Groucho Marx and his fast-paced nonsensical patter plays well off Shang-Chi's laconic seriousness.

She plays Sofia, the love interest of Eduardo Noriega's lead character.

Any character in his plays could be compared to a god.

The “ clever slave ” in particular is a very strong character ; he not only provides exposition and humor, but also often drives the plot in Plautus ’ plays.

The words denoting direction or action such as abeo (“ I go off ”), transeo (“ I go over ”), fores crepuerunt (“ the doors creak ”), or intus (“ inside ”), which signal any character ’ s departure or entrance, are standard in the dialogue of Plautus ’ plays.

In both of these forms, an arranger called a game master ( GM ) usually decides on the rules and setting to be used and acts as referee, while each of the other players plays the role of a single character.

Also notable are the 1995 film version starring Sir Ian McKellen, set in a fictional 1930s fascist England, and Looking for Richard, a 1996 documentary film directed by Al Pacino, who plays the title character as well as himself.

In film, Team America: World Police includes a character who plays a lead role in Lease, a Broadway musical parody of Rent ; the finale song is " Everyone has AIDS !";.

In Greece, she translated and appeared in the first of Eugene O ' Neill's plays to be seen in Greece, " Desire Under the Elms.

Her then two plays, Eugene O ' Neill's Dynamo and See Naples and Die ( 1929 ), were unsuccessful.

The film was adapted by Dudley Nichols from the plays The Moon of the Caribees, In The Zone, Bound East for Cardiff, and The Long Voyage Home by Eugene O ' Neill.

The original plays by Eugene O ' Neill were written around the time of World War I and were among his earliest plays.

The staff at Variety magazine wrote, " Combining dramatic content of four Eugene O ' Neill one-act plays, John Ford pilots adventures of a tramp steamer from the West Indies to an American port, and then across the Atlantic with cargo of high explosives.

During the 1920s, Expressionism enjoyed a brief period of popularity in American theatre, including plays by Eugene O ' Neill ( The Hairy Ape, The Emperor Jones and The Great God Brown ), Sophie Treadwell ( Machinal ) and Elmer Rice ( The Adding Machine ).

In his early theater days, he performed with the Colonnades Theater Lab, Eugene O ' Neill Theater Center, and, along with his wife Rhea Perlman, appeared in plays produced by the Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective.

He followed that with the role of Eugene Morris Jerome in the Neil Simon Eugene Trilogy including the plays, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues.

The plays he appeared in where Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38 directed by Laurence Olivier ; Georg Büchner's Danton's Death ( director Jonathan Miller ); Adrian Mitchell's Tyger ; Luigi Pirandello's The Rules of the Game ; and Eugene O ' Neill ' Long Day's Journey Into Night at the New Theatre in London.

* Eugene Trilogy, a collection of plays by Neil Simon

He also did some fine Eugene O ' Neill plays for radio.

The 1920s also spawned a new age of American playwright with the emergence of Eugene O ' Neill, whose plays Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie, The Hairy Ape, Strange Interlude and Mourning Becomes Electra proved that there was an audience for serious drama on Broadway, and O ' Neill's success paved the way for major dramatists like Elmer Rice, Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller, as well as writers of comedy like George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

Eugene O ' Neill's play " A Touch of the Poet " takes place 19 years after the battle on the same day 27 July and plays a significant part for the story and its characters.

), including not only prose, but plays, poetry, and philosophical tracts and treatises, with an introduction by Eugene Ostashevsky ( not Susan Sontag, who is on some websites advertised as the author of the foreword ).

In 2008, Dennehy appeared at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, appearing in All's Well That Ends Well as the King of France, and a double bill of plays, one by Samuel Beckett, " Krapp's Last Tape " and Eugene O ' Neill's play " Hughie ", where Dennehy reprised the role of Erie Smith.

He became a successful figure on the London stage, making a name for himself in the plays of both Shakespeare and Eugene O ' Neill.

After Willie denies several times that he is that Willie Brown, he finally admits his identity after hearing Eugene play some blues ( though Willie notes that Eugene " plays with no soul ").

She soon thereafter becomes miffed at the mission at hand and abandons the two men, leaving Eugene saddened, but now with a true feeling for the blues, as he plays on an old Fender Telecaster guitar and a Pignose amplifier.

He was well known for acting in such Irish-themed plays as Catherine Gore's King O ' Neil ( 1835 ), his own St. Patrick's Eve ( 1837 ), Samuel Lover's Rory O ' More ( 1837 ) and The White Horse of the Peppers ( 1838 ), Anna Marie Hall's The Groves of Blarney ( 1838 ), Eugene Macarthy's Charles O ' Malley ( 1838 ), and Bayle Bernard's His Last Legs ( 1839 ) and The Irish Attorney ( 1840 ).

Eugene O ' Neill's plays were the high point for serious dramatic plays leading up to the outbreak of war in Europe.

The group produced plays by both Cook and Glaspell, as well as helping to launch the career of Eugene O ' Neill.