In them, there is usually a group of Anglo-Americans with tragicomic problems, worthy of being explored either in the novel or in the play or in comedy and satire ''.

Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

Northern ( and British ) readers recoiled in anger at the horrors of slavery through the novel and play Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin ( 1852 ) by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe.

He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been adapted by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

* Absalom is the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in " Lost in the Stars ", Kurt Weil's play based on the novel " Cry the Beloved Country ".

The Birth of a Nation ( originally called The Clansman ) is a 1915 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay ( with Frank E. Woods ), and co-produced the film ( with Harry Aitken ).

Additionally, in the alternate history novel Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove, Boudicca is the subject of a play written by William Shakespeare to incite the people of Britain to revolt against Spanish conquerors.

It is Irving's sixth published novel, and has been adapted into a film of the same name and a stage play by Peter Parnell.

The first novel to expose the complex play that the genre allows was Aphra Behn's Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, which appeared in three volumes in 1684, 1685, and 1687.

It is thought that her lost novel First Impressions, which was redrafted to become Pride and Prejudice, may have been epistolary: Pride and Prejudice contains an unusual number of letters quoted in full and some play a critical role in the plot.

This play in turn inspired Giannina Braschi's dramatic novel " United States of Banana ," which takes place at the Statue of Liberty in post-9 / 11 New York City.

** Holes ( play ), a 1998 stage adaptation of the novel

Soon the content of every newspaper, book, novel, play, film, broadcast and concert, from the level of nationally-known publishers and orchestras to local newspapers and village choirs, was subject to supervision by the Propaganda Ministry, although a process of self-censorship was soon effectively operating in all these fields, leaving the Ministry in Berlin free to concentrate on the most politically sensitive areas such as major newspapers and the state radio.

The novel Busman's Honeymoon was originally a stage play by Sayers and her friend Muriel St. Clare Byrne.

It is very difficult for the ordinary man to lose himself completely in the subject of a play or of a novel ; but for those who can do so, this method is unquestionably the best.

REAMDE, a play on the common filename README, is a novel by Stephenson released on September 20, 2011.

* Oxfordian theory is central to the plot of Sarah Smith's 2003 novel Chasing Shakespeares, which she also adapted into a play.

* Raku tea bowls play an important part in Rituals, a 1980 novel by the Dutch author Cees Nooteboom.

On 6 October 1964, Milligan appeared in Frank Dunlop's production of the play Oblomov at the Lyric Theatre in London, based on the novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov.

* Based on an existing novel or short story not previously dramatized ( which became his unfinished Mary Poppins entitled Bad Tuesday, not connected to the musical film and stage play scored by the Sherman Brothers );

During most of the 19th-century in fact, the term " tennis " referred to real tennis, not lawn tennis: for example, in Disraeli's novel Sybil ( 1845 ), Lord Eugene De Vere announces that he will " go down to Hampton Court and play tennis.

In the 1996 novel Executive Orders, Clark sarcastically suggests to reporter Robert Holtzman " Get Val Kilmer to play me in the movies " to which Holtzman replies " Too pretty, Nick Cage has a better stare.

Vehmic courts play a key role in the novel Anne of Geierstein or, The Maiden of the Mist by Sir Walter Scott in which Archibald von Hagenbach, the Duke of Burgundy's governor at Brisach ( Switzerland ), is condemned and executed by the Vehmgericht.

These included Elizabeth Gourlay's novel Isabel, Allan Stratton's play Rexy and Heather Robertson's trilogy Willie: A Romance ( 1983 ), Lily: A Rhapsody in Red ( 1986 ) and Igor: A Novel of Intrigue ( 1989 ).

It ran for 1, 181 performances and was nominated for seven Tony Awards ( best actor for both McKellen and Curry, best director for Peter Hall, best play, best costume design, lighting, and set design for John Bury ), of which it won five ( including a best actor Tony for McKellen ).< ref >

Daldry and McNeil researched early productions of the play ( including the Moscow première ) that featured minimalist, non-naturalistic set and lighting design.

* Stage lighting has to be provided to set the moods and sensitivities of the play, and to permit the showing of the emotional charge in the face of the actors, possibly reinforcing the pallor or vividness of their faces.

Festivities include tours of decorated historic homes, a lighting contest, arts and crafts show, a children's play zone, food vendors, the jingle bell jog, a scavenger hunt, storytelling, tours of the county courthouse and murals, and a pancake breakfast.

At the lowest level of governance Whitby has a town council which, for election and administrative purposes, is divided into six electoral wards represented by 19 councillors responsible for burial grounds, allotments, play areas and street lighting.

The absence of color not only gives the audience a sense of " anyplace " ( and thus allows flexibility from play to play or from scene to scene ), it also allows individual lighting cues to be that much stronger.

The original production of the play was performed off Broadway in 1958, staged by the York Playhouse with lighting design by Lee Watson.

In 3D computer graphics, spherical harmonics play a special role in a wide variety of topics including indirect lighting ( ambient occlusion, global illumination, precomputed radiance transfer, etc.

These eighteen councillors are responsible for burial grounds, allotments, play areas and some street lighting.

The BSO is commonly seen during the December holidays covering Christmas songs and often play the Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony.

Even though the play by both teams was competitive and exciting, the inclement weather, empty stands and bad lighting amounted to a very unattractive national television broadcast.

Burgess Park received £ 2m towards better footpaths, more lighting, refurbished public toilets and new play areas for children.

Thus, weather, wind, lighting, positioning of the defense, and the abilities of the players involved in the play must be taken into account.

In 1930, the Monarchs became the first professional baseball team to use a portable lighting system which was transported from game to game in trucks to play games at night, five years before any major league team did.

The play is written to be staged under a reversed lighting scheme: the play opens on a darkened stage.

Theatre X won a 1978 Obie Award for the set design and lighting design for the New York production of their original play A Fierce Longing, based on the life of Yukio Mishima.

" In the The Guardian, Billington concludes that " This is a compelling revival much aided by Neil Austin's lighting and Adam Cork's subliminal sound ," observing: " when audience and cast finally joined in applauding Pinter, was seated in a box, I felt it was in recognition of an eerily disturbing play that transports us into a world somewhere between reality and dream.

The quarto title page announces that the play was performed at both the Globe Theatre and at Blackfriars ; however, in tone and in some details of staging ( particularly the use of special lighting effects ) the play is clearly meant primarily for the indoor stage.

Although the stadium's emergency generators were able to provide lighting in the stands, it was 23 minutes before play was resumed.

The City of Chicago in 2005 received a matching grant from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to develop a children's play space, walking trails, soft surface jogging trail, open lawn areas, lighting, seating, and landscaping in Palmer Square.

Eastwood considered the film as " an opportunity to play true emotions and not totally operatic and not lighting cannons with cigars ".