Jarry and classmate Henri Morin wrote a play they called Les Polonais and performed it with marionettes in the home of one of their friends.

The spring of 1896 saw the publication, in Paul Fort's review Le Livre d ' art, of Jarry's 5-act play Ubu Roi — the rewritten and expanded Les Polonais of his school days.

The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.

In 1907, as Picasso was painting Les Demoiselles d ' Avignon, Oskar Kokoschka was writing Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen ( Murderer, Hope of Women ), the first Expressionist play ( produced with scandal in 1909 ), and Arnold Schoenberg was composing his String Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp minor, his first composition " without a tonal center ".

Tremblay's first professionally produced play, Les Belles-Sœurs, was written in 1965 and premiered at the Théâtre du Rideau Vert on August 28, 1968.

The play Ossian, ou Les bardes by Le Sueur was a sell-out at the Paris Opera in 1804, and transformed his career.

Crowe's upcoming projects include Les Misérables, an adaption of the popular musical in which he will portray Javert, Man of Steel where he will play Jor-El, the father of Superman, and Noah where he will play the titular biblical patriarch.

After one experience during an engagement there, comedian Les Dawson refused to play the venue again.

The word surrealist was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire and first appeared in the preface to his play Les Mamelles de Tirésias, which was written in 1903 and first performed in 1917.

The word surrealist was first used by Guillaume Apollinaire to describe his 1917 play Les Mamelles de Tirésias ( The Breasts of Tiresias ), which was later adapted into an opera by Francis Poulenc.

His first play, Les Pieds Nickelés ( Nickel-plated Feet ), was a great success and was representative of the style of his later work ( generally humorous ).

Bernard is remembered mainly for witticisms, particularly from his play Les Jumeaux de Brighton ( The Brighton Twins ).

* Les Bas-Fonds / The Lower Depths, 1936 ( screenplay based on Gorky's play )-Film produced by Films Albatros, screenplay Yevgeni Zamyatin ( as E. Zamiatine ), Jacques Companéez, Jean Renoir, Charles Spaak, dir.

* 1912: Les Amours d ' Elisabeth, Reine d ' Angleterre ( Queen Elizabeth ; a major success ) A four-reel condensation of the play of the same name.

A new water supply, a gigantic system of sewers, new bridges, the opera house, and other public buildings, the inclusion of outlying districts – these were among the new prefect's achievements, accomplished by the aid of a bold handling of the public funds which called forth Jules Ferry's indictment, Les Comptes fantastiques de Haussmann, in 1867 ( a play on words between contes, stories or tales – as in Les contes d ' Hoffmann or Tales of Hoffmann, and comptes, accounts.

His first play, a burlesque, Les romanesques was produced on 21 May 1894 at the Théâtre Français ; it would be adapted in 1960 by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt into the long-running American musical The Fantasticks.

Most episodes included one or more firing squad sketches, where Les would play the part of a Latin American military officer with a sword in hand preparing to order a firing squad to execute one of the children actors, who were standing in front of a post.

In that year the huge success of Michel Tremblay's play Les Belles-Sœurs proved to be a turning point.

* The Blind ( Les Aveugles ), a play written in 1890 by the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck

Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 drama film based upon Christopher Hampton's play, Les liaisons dangereuses, which in turn was a theatrical adaptation of the 18th-century French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

In 1930 Louis Armstrong came to California and hired the Les Hite band, asking Hampton if he would play vibes on two songs.

In Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales ( 1948 ), the protagonist Hugo Barine suggests pseudonyms for himself, including “ Julien Sorel ”, whom he resembles.

Underlying the critics ' response to Les Mains sales is the extent to which it is a play too rooted in themes of politics and existentialism, and whether, in consequence, it becomes inaccessible for the average spectator.

RH Corstorphine Cricket Club play home games at the Royal High School in Davidson's Mains.

The effectiveness of the governor in clearing up some of the inconsistencies revolving about the sales tax bill may play a part in determining whether it can muster the required two-thirds vote.

Booms in record sales returned after World War II as standards changed from 78s to vinyl long play records, which could contain an entire symphony, and 45s which usually contained one hit popularized on the radio, plus another song on the back or " flip " side.

The album opened to sales of 185, 000 and has since been certified platinum in the U. S. The first single " Right Here " has been the biggest success from the album thus far, garnering much mainstream radio play and peaking at number 1 on the mainstream rock chart.

In addition to Numa's commercial failure, a lack of radio play ( his records were removed from the BBC Radio 1 playlist ) and sales drained the fortune ( he estimated £ 4. 5 million ) Numan had amassed in the late 1970s.

As these drug cartels have gotten more directly involved, however, they are beginning to play a more central role in the business of people smuggling and often exploit individuals-seen as human cargo-and using them by loading up smuggled individuals with backpacks full of marijuana and using them over and over for drug sales.

One of the land developers benefiting from sales by OI & S was Paul Murphy, whose Oswego Lake Country Club helped promote the new city as a place to " live where you play.

The development of new software and its newfound availability made it very simple to copy, subtitle, distribute, and play back fansubs, cutting into what DVDs offer, and their sales.

Very early into the decade, the song on the A-side was the song that the record company wanted radio stations to play, as 45 records ( or ' 45s ') dominated the market in terms of cash sales.

Five additional Four Lovers singles ( on RCA Victor ) were released over the next year, with virtually no sales, airplay, or jukebox play.

The gangsta rap subgenre of West Coast hip hop began to dominate from a radio play and sales standpoint during the early 1990s.

Def Leppard, despite discarding their earlier, heavier sound, became even more successful when they used MTV to play their promotional music videos, and thus commercializing their hard rock sound in order to help sales of their albums on strengths of singles.

Other projects related to Rocket Power and developed under the aegis of Klasky-Csupo and / or Nickelodeon have included Rocket Power: Beach Bandits, and Maximum Rocket Power Live: The Battle for Madtown Park, a live-action extreme-sports dramatic arena play that briefly toured the U. S. Midwest in spring 2002, before being canceled over low ticket sales ( it had originally been scheduled to tour about 40 cities all over the U. S., all the way into the fall ).

Although the mbira is traditionally played as ceremonial music to call spirits, there are many who play it in world-fusion music and get successful radio play and album sales in Zimbabwe and other countries in Africa.

Game supplements suffered far more diminished sales over time than the core books required to play the game.

His exciting style of play and extreme talent increased ticket sales and overall awareness and popularity of the club.

Throughout the 1980s, The Roches continued to release their music to small audiences, little or no air play, and only modest record sales.

Death Cab for Cutie were due to play at the venue as part of their European Long Division tour in November 2008, but the concert was downsized to the Brixton Academy due to low ticket sales.

However, Honoka sometimes neglects her job to go play video games, which causes CD sales to plummet.

In other words, the title transferred was full and complete, with an attempt to reserve the right to fix the price at which subsequent sales could be made ... to call the sale a license to use is a mere play upon words.

Some also believe that the entire rivalry was instigated by their respective recording companies in order to boost sales, and that they were instructed to play along.

' For a period during the mid-1970s, however, BTO enjoyed high sales, steady radio play, and sold out arena shows.

Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales ; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday.