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Her name is an anagram of Grundy ( from Mrs. Grundy, a character in Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough ).
Her first appearance on the stage was at Haymarket in 1755 as Miranda in Mrs Centlivre's play, Busybody.
Her nudity is not addressed throughout the rest of the play, so it cannot be determined whether she retrieved her robe and covered herself or discarded her clothing entirely to appear fully nude when presenting herself before Paris.
Her expressions when her lover dumps her, during the course of the play, proves what a magnificent actress she is.
His latest play to receive wide acclaim is For The Pleasure Of Seeing Her Again, a funny and nostalgic play, centered on the memories of his mother.
Her three act play, " The Whipping " was optioned by Paramount Studios, but never made into a film.
The development of the British constitution, which is not a codified document, is based on this fusion in the person of the Monarch, who has a formal role to play in the legislature ( Parliament, which is where legal and political sovereignty lies, is the Crown-in-Parliament, and is summoned and dissolved by the Sovereign who must give his or her Royal Assent to all Bills so that they become Acts ), the executive ( the Sovereign appoints all ministers of His / Her Majesty's Government, who govern in the name of the Crown ) and the judiciary ( the Sovereign, as the fount of justice, appoints all senior judges, and all public prosecutions are brought in his or her name ).
Howard Brenton's play Hitler Dances caused some controversy by depicting Szabo as more of a real and vulnerable woman, rather than the heroic, patriotic archetype of Carve Her Name with Pride.
* April 19 – Bertolt Brecht's anti-war play Mother Courage and Her Children () receives its first theatrical production at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.
Her nominations include a 1996 Drama Desk Award for Northeast Local and Tony nominations for Butterflies Are Free ( play ), Invitation to a March, and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.
Her performance at one club impressed a theatrical producer, and he cast her in a play in New York, but that production did not open.
Her thesis was on Ben Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair.
Her post-war theatre credits included Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest again at the Haymarket Theatre in 1946 and Lady Bracknell when the same play transferred to New York in 1947.
Her life becomes entwined with theirs as she cares for Rosa during her pregnancy and works for Huma as her personal assistant and even acts in the play as an understudy for Nina during one of her drug abuse crises.
Her image was considered with more care ; although she continued to play character roles, she was often filmed in close-ups that emphasized her distinctive eyes.
Her film choices were often unconventional ; she sought roles as manipulators and killers in an era when actresses usually preferred to play sympathetic characters, and she excelled in them.
Her mastery is unparalleled when it comes to the seduction of certain powerful individuals, but popular criticism supports the notion that " as far as Cleopatra is concerned, the main thrust of the play's action might be described as a machine especially devised to bend her to the Roman will ... and no doubt Roman order is sovereign at the end of the play.
Her conclusion was that the evidence testified to an ancient Celtic festival on 1 August that involved the following: solemn cutting of the first of the corn of which an offering would be made to the deity by bringing it up to a high place and burying it ; a meal of the new food and of bilberries of which everyone must partake ; a sacrifice of a sacred bull, a feast of its flesh, with some ceremony involving its hide, and its replacement by a young bull ; a ritual dance-play perhaps telling of a struggle for a goddess and a ritual fight ; an installation of a head on top of the hill and a triumphing over it by an actor impersonating Lugh ; another play representing the confinement by Lugh of the monster blight or famine ; a three-day celebration presided over by the brilliant young god or his human representative.
* Tori Amos song " Bells for Her " has her play a prepared piano.
Her character was originally written as a sarcastic and sharp-tongued temptress, but Louise argued that this was too extreme and refused to play it as written.
Her stage work remained a priority and continued with Ann Veronica ( Piccadilly, 1949 ), which was another collaboration with Gow, who wrote the play with his wife as leading lady.
Her first stage appearance was when her mother brought her on stage in costume for the curtain call of the short-lived Broadway play The Leaf People.
Her critics, especially Walter White of the NAACP, claimed that she and other actors who agreed to play to stereotypes were not a neutral force, but rather were willing agents of black oppression.
Her book " Toys and Playthings, " ( ISBN 0-394-42830-7 ) discusses the effect of play on child development.

Her and comic
Her Shakespearean heroines-Beatrice, Portia, Desdemona and Ophelia – were no less successful than her comic characters – Miss Hoyden, Biddy Tipkin, Lucy Lockit and Miss Prue.
Her earliest comic strips were produced for productions including Lunkentus ( Prickinas och Fabians äventyr, 1929 ), Vårbrodd ( Fotbollen som Flög till Himlen, 1930 ), and Allas Krönika ( Palle och Göran gå till sjöss, 1933 ).
The resulting seven-minute scene, which is readily intelligible and enjoyable as a stand-alone short subject, is considerably more overtly comic than the rest of Talk to Her -- the protagonist climbs giant breasts as if they were rock formations and even ventures his way inside a ( compared to him ) gigantic vagina.
He briefly appears in a 2002 issue of Alan Moore's comic book series Promethea entitled " The Wine Of Her Fornications " where he is one of the adepts in the " city of pyramids " in Moore's version of the Binah sphere of the Tree of Life and is watched over by John Dee.
" By this account, Dr. Robinson painted the original mule while a 21-year-old college student inspired by Maud the Mule, from the Frederick Burr Opper comic strip And Her Name Was Maud.
Bernard Dick summed up Holliday's acting: " Perhaps the most important aspect of the Judy Holliday persona, both in variations of Billie Dawn and in her roles as housewife, is her vulnerability ... Her ability to shift her mood quickly from comic to serious is one of her greatest technical gifts.
Her next two films with Allen, Sleeper ( 1973 ) and Love and Death ( 1975 ), established her as a comic actor.
Her parents, Benjamin ( 1818 – 96 ), of Irish descent, and Sarah ( née Ballard, 1819 – 92 ), of Scottish ancestry, were comic actors in a touring company based in Portsmouth, ( where Sarah's father was a Wesleyan minister ) and had eleven children.
Her most well-received performances were in comic roles, such as elegant women of fashion like Lady Betty Modish and Lady Townley, and breeches roles.
Her work with them expanded to include other instrumental work and even some comic acting.
Her first play to receive wide notice was Cloud Nine ( 1979 ), " a farce about sexual politics ", set partly in a British colony in the Victorian era, which examines the relationships involved in colonisation, and utilizes cross-gender casting for comic and instructive effect.
Her right arm is perpetually in a sling, ( though it was revealed in a newspaper comic that she in fact is only wearing it to cover up a tattoo.
Her role in this successful production run made her famous, even to the point of a comic book being published in the United States about her, using her then-famous nickname, " Queen of the Hurricanes ".
In reviewing her performance for the Christian Science Monitor, David Sterritt said, " Her body sways like a reed in the emotional storms of her own scatter-brained creation, and her off-hand manner becomes still more off-handed when the most explosive matters are at stake ... Miss Loudon gives a comic characterization in the most classical tradition.
Her brother is writer and comic actor Jeremy Front and the pair have collaborated on writing and performance projects.
Her first film was Nikos Tsiforos ' " The little Mouse ", followed by scores of other popular dramatic and comic films.
Her first writing was in comic strips.
Her first published book was a comic strip story-The Sock Monsters.
Her dry comic delivery enabled her to continue acting throughout the 1940s and 1950s, originating the roles of Hildy Eszterhazy (" I Can Cook, Too!
Her distinctive London accent and her teeth have been the butt of many comic routines.
Her best known work is Stripsody ( 1966 ), in which she exploits her vocal technique using comic book sounds ( onomatopoeia ).
Her first husband was late comic actor Herb Edelman, who was perhaps best known for his role as Dorothy's husband Stan on The Golden Girls.
Her international breakthrough came at Glyndebourne, where she sang as Adina in Franco Zeffirelli's staging of Donizetti's L ' elisir d ' amore ; in the Glyndebourne 1960-62 season she sang the Mozart comic roles of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Zerlina in Don Giovanni.
Her career began as a child actress in radio and television, and has spanned virtually all forms of stage and screen ( large and small ) dramatic and comic entertainment --- including, as a teenager, playing the daughter of a lawyer and a former fashion buyer ( Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy ) on the short lived NBC radio comedy-drama, The Marriage ( 1953 – 1954 ).
Her comic strip was turned into a dramatic radio series in 1955 and a weekly animated series in 1969, which is still running as of 2011.

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