To write a play, the dramatist once needed an idea plus the imagination, the knowledge of life and the craft to develop it.

I came up with the idea of split-screen, to be able to show the actual audience involvement, to trace the life of the audience and that of the play as they merge in and out of each other.

Although it's increasingly common for couples – particularly younger couples – to have " power neutral " relationships and / or play styles, activities and relationships within a BDSM context are often characterized by the participants ' taking on complementary, but unequal roles ; thus, the idea of informed consent of both the partners becomes essential.

In fiction, the idea dates back at least as far as Karel &# 268 ; apek's 1921 play R. U. R.

There was, at some stage during the making of the album an attempt to relate the material to firstly the idea of aging, then as an obscure radio play about the life of an ex-army bandsman and his shortcomings.

Additionally, in the book The Mason Williams FCC Rapport, author Mason Williams states that he pitched an idea to CBS for a television program that featured " video-radio ," where disc jockeys would play avant-garde art pieces set to music on the air.

In 1946, Brando showed his dedication to the idea of a Jewish homeland by performing in Ben Hecht's Zionist play A Flag is Born.

It may be that the events of 1054 are responsible for the idea, which appears in Shakespeare's play, that Malcolm III was put in power by the English.

The game of Oh Hell explores the idea of taking an exact number of tricks specified by a bid before the hand, and differs from other trick-taking games in that players play a fixed number of hands.

The idea that human beings must work for a living and play an active role in society is the basis of this philosophy.

This idea was quickly done away with because broadcasters felt it violated their First Amendment rights by restricting what content they could play.

The idea is to promote the playing of the games ( by making play against a remote opponent easier ), while supporting the industry ( and reducing copyright issues ) by ensuring that the players have access to the actual physical game.

He pitched the idea by simply saying, " I want to do a play about a guy who goes to a ballroom.

' No. '" Kazan replies, " Good idea, play it that way.

He said he " felt like there was a real story underneath was more fascinating and way more tragic " than the story presented to the public, and attempted to turn the idea into a play.

Due to the attention received by the totem pole, additional totem poles were placed at each of the locations and all the store began operating under the name " Tot ' em Stores " ( a word play on the totem poles as well as the idea that customers toted away their purchases ).

Throughout the play he is working on transforming the classical, Arcadia-like landscape of Sidley Park into the Gothic style popular at the time ( an idea that Lady Croom begrudgingly agrees to ).

The most prominent of these is the idea of chaos versus order, presented through Stoppard's discussion of chaos theory within the play.

Written in prose rather than blank verse, changes to the text include the rape of Lavinia being Tamora's idea instead of Aaron's ; the removal of Marcus ; Titus does not kill his son ; he does not have his hand amputated ; Chiron is much more subservient to Demetrius ; Aaron is more philosophical, trying to find meaning in his acts of evil rather than simply revelling in them ; Titus does not die at the end, nor does Tamora, although the play ends with Titus ordering the deaths of Tamora and Aaron.

His argument says that had Antigone not been so obsessed with the idea of keeping her brother covered, none of the deaths of the play would have happened.

In the final act, the comic characters perform a play to entertain the nobles, an idea conceived by Holofernes, where they represent the Nine Worthies.

It is widely conjectured that there is no computationally inexpensive method to solve chess even in the very weak sense of determining with certainty the value of the initial position, and hence the idea of solving chess in the stronger sense of obtaining a practically usable description of a strategy for perfect play for either side seems unrealistic today.

The complexity of the game aims to represent reality to such a degree that a player's own political and philosophical outlook can be expressed in play ( the idea being that rival ideologies are essentially " tested " in the game before the winners can apply them in reality ).

The movie title is reported to have been the influence for the name of the popular annual live music festival South By Southwest in Austin, Texas, started in 1987, with the name idea coming from Louis Black, editor and co-founder of the local alternative weekly The Austin Chronicle as a play on the Hitchcock movie title.

Sheri S. Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country contained a similar idea, with a play named Iphigenia at Ilium running through the novel as a leitmotif.

Woolfson came up with the idea of making an album based on developments in the film industry, where directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick were the focal point of the film's promotion, rather than individual film stars.

The title " Army of Darkness " came from an idea by Irvin Shapiro, during the production of Evil Dead II.

Ironically, it was Hoyle who coined the phrase that came to be applied to Lemaître's theory, referring to it as " this big bang idea " during a BBC Radio broadcast in March 1949.

When the idea and reality of the National Debt came about during the 18th century this was also managed by the bank.

The idea of organizing a ' marathon race ' came from Michel Bréal, who wanted the event to feature in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens.

This idea came from common law, and the earliest conception of a criminal act involved events of such major significance that the " State " had to usurp the usual functions of the civil tribunals, and direct a special law or privilegium against the perpetrator.

" About the artwork, Alston is quoted " The idea of a march was growing ... It was in the air ... and this painting just came.

The most common theory holds that the idea of centaurs came from the first reaction of a non-riding culture, as in the Minoan Aegean world, to nomads who were mounted on horses.

The story idea came from smuggling in the 18th century Romney Marsh, where brandy and tobacco were brought in at night by boat from France to avoid high tax.

At first Newson was opposed to the radical idea of his daughter becoming a doctor but eventually came round and agreed to do all in his power, both financially and otherwise, to support Elizabeth in the long uphill battle.

Solly Zuckerman pointed out that it was treason, and the idea came to nothing because of Mountbatten's reluctance to act.

Mason and Howard, in order to give the film more of an American feel, came up with the idea of inserting newly-shot footage of newscaster Eric Carter, a UN reporter who spends much of the time commenting on the action from the UN Headquarters via an International Communication Satellite ( ICS ) broadcast, and Arnold Johnson, the head of the Museum of Natural History in New York, who tries to explain Godzilla's origin and his and Kong's motivations.

Jim Bohlen's wife Marie came up with the idea to sail to Amchitka, inspired by the anti-nuclear voyages of Albert Bigelow in 1958.

Once colour printing came in, the layers idea was also used for creating separate printing plates for each colour.

", and then came up with the idea that returning a dead Norwegian Blue parrot to a pet shop might make for a more interesting subject than returning a toaster.

In Monty Python Live at Aspen, Cleese said that the original idea came from a man Palin bought a car from, who had endless excuses for everything that went wrong with it.

Accounts vary on who first came up with the idea of the film, but Hawks and Saunders developed the story together and tried to sell it to several studios before First National agreed to produce the film.

A study of Asian genetics points to the idea that the original humans in Asia came from in Southeast Asia.

Keller's big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of " water "; she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.

Noyce also came up with his own idea of an integrated circuit half a year later than Kilby.

Legend has it that the idea came to him " like a ray of light ".

A 1568 history by Hadrianus Junius of Holland claims that the basic idea of the movable type came to Gutenberg from Laurens Janszoon Coster via Fust, who was apprenticed to Coster in the 1430s and may have brought some of his equipment from Haarlem to Mainz.

The name " Tiptree " came from a branded jar of marmalade, and the " Jr ." was her husband's idea.

In 1525, he rejected Luther's idea of Real Presence and came to a spiritual interpretation of the Lord's Supper, which was subsequently rejected by Luther.