Almost from the moment of the murder, the play depicts Scotland as a land shaken by inversions of the natural order.

The play ahistorically depicts him participating in the Battle of Tewkesbury and being captured.

* Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar depicts Caesar's assassination by Brutus and his accomplices, and the murderers ' subsequent downfall.

The play captures the conflict between her father and her brothers, and depicts changes in their lives after the British Raj took over their princely state.

The play casts criticism on authoritarian religious leaders and also depicts the positive and colorful view of life and generous spirit of a character in the play, which is in stark contrast to that of another character, an authoritarian religious leader.

The play depicts Socrates, a contemporary of Aristophanes, as tinkering with odd devices and performing implausible experiments to determine the nature of the clouds and sky, and presents his philosophical method as a means for deceiving others and escaping blame, closer to the later descriptions of his opponents, the Sophists, than to those usually ascribed to him.

The main theme of the workshop was whether or not the play demeans women, or simply depicts how they are demeaned.

As is normal in films based on stage plays, the film depicts places that are only referred to in the play: Dr. Lynn's flat, Laura's home, a cinema, a restaurant and a branch of Boots the Chemists.

* The play After Aida — a 1985 play-with-music by Julian Mitchell — depicts the struggle of Giulio Ricordi and Franco Faccio to get the retired Verdi to collaborate with young Boito on a project, which resulted in Otello.

Irving's book inspired the highly controversial 1967 play Soldiers by his friend, the German playwright Rolf Hochhuth, where Hochhuth depicts Churchill ordering the " assassination " of General Sikorski.

Several authors, including Ioan Petru Culianu, have drawn a parallel between Eugène Ionesco's Absurdist play of 1959, Rhinoceros, which depicts the population of a small town falling victim to a mass metamorphosis, and the impact fascism had on Ionesco's closest friends ( Eliade included ).

Woody Allen's one-act play entitled Death Knocks, part of his anthology Getting Even, depicts a man playing gin rummy against Death.

His first play, the Obie Award-winning FOB, depicts the contrasts and conflicts between established Asian Americans and " Fresh Off the Boat " newcomer immigrants.

Ultimately, the play depicts how the English lost France, a seemingly strange subject matter if Shakespeare was attempting to instil a sense of national pride in the people.

* William Gibson depicts Kempe as a moody tragedian in his 1968 play A Cry of Players, a significant departure from Kempe's actual performance style.

The play Visions ( 1978 ) by Louis Nowra depicts Lynch and López leading Paraguay to disaster in the Paraguayan War.

* Hellman is the central character in Peter Feibleman's 1993 play Cakewalk, which depicts his relationship with Hellman, based in turn on Feibleman's 1988 memoir of their relationship, Lilly, which described " his tumultuous time as her lover, caretaker, writing partner and principal heir.

* Georg Kaiser's 1917 play The Coral depicts a powerful industrialist whose male secretary is his exact double.

This play depicts a scene outside the Mahabharata in which Ghatotkacha is sent by his mother to bring back a human for her to feast on, but he is hindered by the appearance of his father, Bhima.

In that episode, Penn & Teller play a card game where each card depicts a great person in history.

It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV ( two plays ), and Henry V. Henry IV, Part 1 depicts a span of history that begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildon against the Douglas late in 1402 and ends with the defeat of the rebels at Shrewsbury in the middle of 1403.

The play depicts Kālidāsa as a court poet of Chandragupta who faces a trial on the insistence of a priest and some other moralists of his time.

The Günter Grass play Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand / The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising ( 1966 ) depicts Brecht preparing a production of Shakespeare's Coriolanus against the background of the events of 1953.

Thomas Heywood's two-part play The Iron Age also depicts the Trojan war and the story of Troilus and Cressida, but it is not certain whether his or Shakespeare's play was written first.

By a further act of 1541 — which was not repealed until 1845 — artificers, labourers, apprentices, servants and the like were forbidden to play bowls at any time except Christmas, and then only in their master's house and presence.

Unlike in many other Christian countries, St. Nicholas does not play a major role in Polish Christmas, but instead, is celebrated on his Saint feast day of December 6.

Dylan Marlais Thomas ( 27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953 ) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems, " Do not go gentle into that good night ", " And death shall have no dominion ", the " play for voices ", Under Milk Wood, and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.

Though Garfield can be very cynical, he does have a soft side for his teddy bear, Pooky, food and sleep, but one Christmas he says " they say I have to get up early, be nice to people, skip breakfast, not play with mice ... I wish it would never end.

The Klingon Christmas Carol play is the first production that is primarily in Klingon ( only the narrator speaks English ).

She returned to play Queenie in the Christmas special Blackadder's Christmas Carol and a special edition for the millennium Blackadder: Back and Forth.

In addition, stylized Christmas music will play during game play on Christmas.

* Badjelly's Bad Christmas A play created and performed by the Chickenshed Theatre Company using the works of Spike Milligan and his characters.

* I Know My Love ( 1951 ), play, Sondheim wrote a Christmas carol for it

Thereafter, until the end of the century, Pierrot appeared fairly regularly in English pantomimes ( which were originally mute harlequinades but later evolved into the Christmas pantomimes of today ; in the 19th century, the harlequinade was presented as a " play within a play " during the pantomime ), finding his most notable interpreter in Carlo Delpini ( 1740 – 1828 ).

Wilder translated plays by André Obey and Jean-Paul Sartre, and wrote the libretti to two operas, The Long Christmas Dinner, composed by Paul Hindemith, and The Alcestiad, composed by Louise Talma and based on his own play.

The Lion in Winter is a 1966 play by James Goldman, depicting the personal and political conflicts of Henry II of England, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, their children and their guests during Christmas, 1183.

Set during Christmas 1183 at Henry II of England's castle in Chinon, Anjou, Angevin Empire, the play opens with the arrival of Henry's wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, whom he has had imprisoned since 1173.

The earliest recorded performance of the play occurred at Christmas time in 1597 at Court before Queen Elizabeth.

The Interlude of the play is a sermon given by Becket on Christmas morning 1170.

In many countries, The Salvation Army is most recognized during the Christmas season with its volunteers and employees who stand outside of businesses and play / sing Christmas carols, or ring bells to inspire passersby to place donations of cash and cheques inside red kettles.

In December 2008 Sixpence joined the " Love Came Down at Christmas Tour " to play songs from The Dawn of Grace, along with Jars of Clay, Leeland and Sara Groves.

The play was extremely popular, and throughout the 1960s / 70s, it had a yearly revival at Christmas in Britain.

About Christmas 1894, Mucha happened to go into a print shop where there was a sudden and unexpected need for a new advertising poster for a play featuring Sarah Bernhardt, the most famous actress in Paris, at the Théâtre de la Renaissance on the Boulevard Saint-Martin.