Guest began his career in theatre during the early 1970s with one of his earliest professional performances being the role of Norman in Michael Weller's Moonchildren for the play's American premiere at the Arena Stage in Washington D. C. in November 1971.

The film accommodated Newton-John's Australian accent by recasting her character from the play's original American Sandy Dumbrowski to Sandy Olsson, an Australian who vacations and then moves with her family to the United States.

Gillette treated both sides of the American Civil War, North and South, equally, bestowing integrity, loyalty and honor on both, even as he made a spy each play's sympathetic hero.

The American Dream is also discussed in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman ; the play's protagonist, Willy, is on a journey for the American Dream.

Kilroy, a young American visitor, fulfills some of the functions of the play's narrator, as does Gutman, ( named after Sydney Greenstreet's character from The Maltese Falcon, but bearing more resemblance to Signor Ferrari, Greenstreet's character in Casablanca ) manager of the hotel Siete Mares, whose terrace occupies part of the stage.

The play's popularity has waned in the mid twentieth century, although Charles Laughton played Henry at Sadler's Wells Theatre in 1933 and Margaret Webster directed it as the inaugural production of her American Repertory Company on Broadway in 1946 with Walter Hampden as Wolsey and Eva Le Gallienne as Katherine.

The play's setting was changed to reflect a modern tone and was subtly modified to include deaf actors using American Sign Language.

This creates many moral dilemmas with the play's cast of characters, which include a wealthy land-owner who is the cousin of the dictator, his depressed daughter — a close friend of the accused — and an American television production team that arrives to broadcast the crucifixion.

In 2005, The New Place of St. Paul, MN produced the play's American Midwest Area Premiere.

The play's Broadway première on 5 February 1893 at Palmer's Theatre was also the first Broadway performance for stage and screen actress Julia Arthur, who played Lady Windermere.

This season was preceded, in February, by a performance of the play by the same company at Middle Temple Hall, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the play's première, at the same venue.

Brook eventually directed the play's French première two years later, which opened on 18 May 1960 at the Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris.

The Lyric celebrated the play's 50th anniversary with a revival, directed by artistic director David Farr, and related events from 8 to 24 May 2008, including a gala performance and reception hosted by Harold Pinter on 19 May 2008, exactly fifty years after its London première.

It was felt by Ibsen's German agent that the original ending would not play well in German theatres ; therefore, for the play's German debut, Ibsen was forced to write an alternative ending for it to be considered acceptable.

Although many of these play's titles are known, only The Uplift of Lucifer is known to survive ( it was published in a limited edition in the 1960s ).

The film, produced in 1913, showed the play's Broadway actors reciting every line of dialogue, resulting in a stiff film that Pickford later called " one of the worst I ever made ... it was deadly.

The play's brevity and certain aspects of its staging ( for instance, the large proportion of night-time scenes and the unusually large number of off-stage sounds ) have been taken as suggesting that the text now extant was revised for production indoors, perhaps at the Blackfriars Theatre, which the King's Men acquired in 1608.

It was well received, and, despite having almost none of the play's script, critic Harold Bloom called it " the most successful film version of Macbeth.

Smith repeated the play's allegations, and he was consequently arrested for sedition.

The play's preface says that while the trial was its " genesis ," it is " not history.

Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humour, though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages, while others foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Wilde's artistic career so far.

The play's respectability was assured in 1946 when a charity performance was attended by King George VI.

Wilde told Robert Ross that the play's theme was " That we should treat all trivial things in life very seriously, and all serious things of life with a sincere and studied triviality.

Leigh next sought the role of Blanche DuBois in the West End stage production of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and was cast after Williams and the play's producer Irene Mayer Selznick saw her in The School for Scandal and Antigone ; Olivier was contracted to direct.

Laurents felt that the building tension needed to be alleviated in order to increase the impact of the play's tragic outcome, so comic relief in the form of Officer Krupke was added to the second act.

the play's strongly patriotic themes were credited by the Conservative Party for helping them secure a large percentage of the middle class votes, despite the fact Coward had conceived the project a full year before the election was held, and the playwright strenuously denied having any motivation to influence its outcome.

However, the committee's selection was overruled by the award's advisory board, the trustees of Columbia University, because of the play's then-controversial use of profanity and sexual themes.

He reprised the role in the play's film adaptation, which was released in 1963.

Cardinal Richelieu's Académie Française acknowledged the play's success, but determined that it was defective, in part because it did not respect the classical unities of time, place, and action ( Unity of Time stipulated that all the action in a play must take place within a twenty-four hour time-frame ; Unity of Place, that there must be only one setting for the action ; and Unity of Action, that the plot must be centred around a single conflict or problem ).

Originally published in the First Folio of 1623 ( where it was first labelled as a comedy ), the play's first recorded performance was in 1604.

The film was adapted by Morrie Ryskind and Anthony Veiller from the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, but the play's storyline and the characters ' names were almost completely changed for the movie, so much so in fact that Kaufman joked the film should be called " Screen Door ".

Some see The Shrew as novel because, although it does promote male dominance, it does not condone violence towards women per se ; the " play's attitude was characteristically Elizabethan and was expressed more humanly by Shakespeare than by some of his sources.

Remarkably, it still works well enough in the theatre: audiences at the reconstruction of ' Shakespeare's Globe ' in London, many of whom have never been to the theatre before, let alone to a play by Shakespeare, seem to have little difficulty grasping the play's action.

The play's original Broadway production opened at the Empire Theater on 22 April 1895, but closed after only twelve performances.

" The theme is hinted at in the play's ironic title, and " earnestness " is repeatedly alluded to in the dialogue, Algernon says in Act II, " one has to be serious about something if one is to have any amusement in life " but goes on to reproach Jack for ' being serious about everything '".

Parker's adaptation includes the dunning solicitor Mr. Gribsby who pursues Jack to Hertfordshire ( present in Wilde's original draft, but cut at the behest of the play's first producer ).

During the play's second run at the Belgrade, in September 1963 Leonard and Raine fell in love and moved in together, but they did not marry until 1972.

The play follows his early dismay at his lack of composing success, to the creation of The Planets suite, with the play's seven tiers following the structure of The Planets.

The play's West End transfer, after an eight-month run at the National, gave an opportunity for re-appraisal and The Daily Telegraph commented: " I have never left a play more convinced that I had just witnessed a masterpiece ".

Laughton played the title role at the play's premiere in Los Angeles on 30 July 1947 and later that year in New York.

Others have defended the play by highlighting the ( frequently unstaged ) Induction as evidence that the play's sentiments are not meant to be taken at face value, that the entire play is, in fact, a farce.

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.

" The Drunkard " follows the typical format of a temperance drama: the main character has an alcohol-induced downfall, and he restores his life from disarray once he denounces drinking for good at the play's end.

These actions cause Creon's madness at the play's conclusion.

Falsely accused of infidelity by her husband, Leontes, she apparently dies of grief just after being vindicated by the Oracle of Delphi, but is restored to life at the play's close.

Indeed, had not Shakespeare made this departure from his sources the play's performance at the wedding celebrations of Princess Elizabeth, a future queen of Bohemia, could not have taken place.

James ( or Jimmy ) Christie, at 15 years old, began playing Whitney ( the third son ) in 1939 on Broadway at the Empire Theatre and remained during most of its 7-year run, playing both Whitney and John ( the next to eldest son ) as he aged through the play's run.

Booth goes to the theater at noon for the first rehearsal of the new play and meets Sid Sperry, the play's unctuous financial backer.

It reproaches the audience for the play's failure at the festival, where it was beaten by the works of inferior authors, and it praises the author for originality and for his courage in lampooning influential politicians such as Cleon.

After four previews, the play's Broadway production opened on June 1, 1978 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

Giorgio Melchiori, editor of the New Cambridge edition, asserts that the play's disappearance from the canon is probably due to a 1598 protest at the play's portrayal of the Scottish.