As the play opens the audience is introduced to the community of Salem in Puritan America at the end of the eighteenth century.

The play opens amidst thunder and lightning, and the Three Witches decide that their next meeting shall be with Macbeth.

* 1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London later becoming the longest continuously-running play in history.

The play opens with Roderigo, a rich and dissolute gentleman, complaining to Iago, a high-ranking soldier, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army.

In the game of poker, opens and raises are considered aggressive plays, while calls and checks are considered passive ( though a check-raise would be considered a very aggressive play ).

The play opens with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern betting on coin flips.

Examining him will cause a jingle ( that which plays when the player completes a puzzle or opens a doorway in The Legend of Zelda games ) to play.

In 2005 the Abbey Theatre produced the play with an all male cast ; it also featured Wilde as a character – the play opens with him drinking in a Parisian café, dreaming of his play .. More recently the Melbourne Theatre Company staged a production in December 2011 with Geoffrey Rush playing Lady Bracknell.

Set in “ The Present ” ( 1895 ) in London, the play opens with Algernon Moncrieff, an idle young gentleman, receiving his best friend, John Worthing, whom he knows as Ernest.

The play opens with Estragon struggling to remove a boot.

Act II opens with Vladimir singing a recursive round about a dog, which could illustrate the cyclical nature of the play's universe, and also point toward the play's debt to the carnivalesque, music hall traditions, and vaudeville comedy ( this is only one of a number of canine references and allusions in the play ).

* December 25 – Why Marry ?, the first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City.

* July 12 – Laurence Olivier's film Henry V, based on Shakespeare's play, opens in London.

* April 19 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, a musical play based on Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, opens on Broadway and becomes their second long-running stage classic.

* January 5 – The play The Scarlet Pimpernel opens at the New Theatre in London and begins a run of 122 performances and numerous revivals.

** The Fantasticks, the world's longest-running musical, opens at New York City's Sullivan Street Playhouse where it will play for 42 years.

* February 7 – The play La vida alegre y muerte triste by dramatist José Echegaray opens.

* October 12 – The play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York.

* December 27 – Kern and Hammerstein's musical play, Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber's novel, opens on Broadway and then goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theater.

* October – The first national stage in Sweden opens when the play Den Svenska Sprätthöken is performed in the native language, by the first native actors, on the stage of Bollhuset in Stockholm.

The play opens on 10 April 1809, in a garden front room of a country house in Derbyshire with tutor Septimus Hodge trying to distract his 13 year-old pupil Thomasina from her enquiries as to the meaning of a " carnal embrace " by challenging her to prove Fermat's Last Theorem so he can focus on reading the poem ' The Couch of Eros ', a piece written by another character, Mr. Ezra Chater.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

`` Oh, come on Miss Langford, play with us just onct '', one of the little girls begged, smiling wistfully.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

`` Miss Langford, come out and play with us like you promised '', several of the little girls called.

`` Let's play with 'em '', Jack said, rising from where he sat on the ground and dusting off his overall pants.

`` Will you play with us again, Miss Langford ''??

I don't mean a few aesthetes who play about with sensations, like a young prince in a miniature dabbling his hand in a pool.

He would not have cared why it emerged, he only wanted to capture a memory to play with it again in his imagination and somehow to fix and hold in the story the disturbing emotions that accompanied the fantasy.

And he threatened someday to write a play `` with fifty, eighty, a hundred people -- a whole town, a whole race, a whole epoch ''.

-- since, as Courtenay says, `` Nobody should play with lives the way we do unless he's motivated by the highest ideals ''.

If he can't play with Mommy's magazines, he should have some old numbers of his own.

And so, he squirms with each play, remembering his youth.

Small, shirt-sleeved orchestras play in 2/4 or 4/4 time, using guitars, violins, and more alien instruments with names that would open Sesame: the oud, grandfather of the lute ; ;

He claimed to be visiting the waterfront saloon at the crossroads to play cards and drink with his cronies, but Kate had not smelled brandy on him since Mrs. Lattimer's funeral.

I used to play with the older one sometimes, when he'd let me.

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It was all set up so there would be no dust anywhere and so that their children would color in the coloring room, paint in the painting room, play with blocks in the block house, and do all the other things in the proper rooms at exactly the right time.

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

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 ''.

It should be added that in man neocortical-hypothalamic interrelations probably play a role in the fusion of emotional processes with those underlying perception, memory, imagination, and creativity.

It seems likely that with the three preceding forces at play, the rate of business and industrial plant and equipment expenditures should continue to move upward from the levels of the Fifties.

loyalty to the group, a feeling of superiority over those who are not members, and unwillingness to play with members of the opposite sex become dominant traits.

The child in the primary grades can play harmoniously with one companion, but his desire to be first in everything gets him into trouble when the group gets larger ; ;

A process of elimination which leaves the artist with nothing but the play of his materials themselves cannot sustain interest in either artist or public for very long.