Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.

Ferdowsi also tells of Emperor Shapur II of the Sassanid dynasty of the 4th century who learned to play polo when he was only seven years old.

To do this, the quarterback yells a special code, like " Blue 42 ," or " Texas 29 ," which tells the offense to switch to a specific play or formation.

The play tells about how Medea avenges her husband's betrayal.

An epilogue to the play then tells of Ymma's reign alongside Ethelbert and her marriage to Canute.

Prew tells her the honor of his lifetime, being selected to play Taps at Arlington National Cemetery on Armistice Day with the President in attendance.

Mistaking the pair's quarreling for an act of romantic affection, Spider-Man is determined to play matchmaker ( despite Mary Jane's misgivings when he tells her his plan ).

The play tells the story of a young man, Tom, his disabled sister, Laura, and their controlling mother Amanda, who tries to make a match between Laura and a gentleman caller.

" The chorus tells the audience " We'll not offend one stomach with our play ", a humorous reference to the fact that the scene of the play crosses the English Channel.

Stanley appears as a character in Simon Gray's 1978 play The Rear Column, which tells the story of the men left behind to wait for Tippu Tib while Stanley went on to relieve Emin Pasha.

The play is set during the latter days of the Roman Empire and tells the fictional story of Titus, a general in the Roman army, who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with Tamora, Queen of the Goths.

Titus morbidly tells Lavinia that he plans to " play the cook " and grind the bones of Demetrius and Chiron into powder and bake their heads.

The play tells the story of Thyestes, son of Pelops, King of Pisa, who, along with his brother Atreus, was exiled by Pelops for the murder of their half-brother, Chrysippus.

Stage Door ( 1937 ) is an RKO film, adapted from the play by the same name, that tells the story of several would-be actresses who live together in a boarding house at 158 West 58th Street in New York City.

Throughout the play, Antony is gradually bereaved of that Roman quality so coveted in his nostalgic interludes — by the centremost scenes, his sword ( a plainly phallic image ), he tells Cleopatra, has been “ made weak by his affection ” ( 3. 11. 67 ).

* In an episode of the TV show Family Guy, Lois tells Peter right before they engage in play, " The safe word is ' banana '.

A Squirrel tells him that boys who do nothing but play and never work always grow into donkeys.

The Emperor Jones is a 1920 play by American dramatist Eugene O ' Neill which tells the tale of Brutus Jones, an African-American man who kills a man, goes to prison, escapes to a Caribbean island, and sets himself up as emperor.

From what Pynchon tells us, this is the only mention in the play of Thurn and Taxis ' rivals ' name-Trystero-and it is the seed for the conspiracy that unfurls.

The title may have been inspired by George Peele's play The Old Wives ' Tale of 1590, in which a storyteller tells " a merry winter's tale " of a missing daughter.

Non-physical tells exist in both casino and online poker, but tells like speed of play, betting patterns, the quantity of chips that a player plays with and player chat can be particularly revealing online.

This was a play on the title " Procurator ," meaning agent, a word still used in the Scottish courts, particularly when one Scottish solicitor tells a court that he is appearing only as the agent of another solicitor.

The story tells that Kadlu was such a noisy children that her parents command her to play outside.

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.

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.

* A hugely popular yet heavily fictionalized perpetuation of the story came in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus ( 1979 ) and the Oscar-winning 1984 film directed by Miloš Forman based upon it.

According to Capp, who loved to relate the story, Kelly's two perfectly logical reasons for doing so were: a. to cement diplomatic relations between Argentina and the United States, and b. " Because you can't play the piano, anyway!

Virtually all productions today, however, use the original ending, as do nearly all of the film versions of this play, including Dariush Mehrjui's Sara ( the Argentine version, made in 1943 and starring Delia Garcés, does not ; it also modernizes the story, setting it in the early 1940s ).

* Paul Auster's collection of short stories entitled True Tales of American Life contains a story (' Mathematical Aphrodisiac ' by Alex Galt ) in which amicable numbers play an important role.

In 1648 there appeared the play Le Gran Tamerlan et Bejezet by Jean Magnon, and in 1725 Handel's Tamerlano was first performed and published in London ; Vivaldi's version of the story, Bajazet, was written in 1735.

Raphael Holinshed also included her story in his Chronicles ( 1577 ), based on Tacitus and Dio, and inspired Shakespeare's younger contemporaries Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher to write a play, Bonduca, in 1610.

The game also features co-operative play ( co-op ) which allows players to complete the story based single player mode together.

As the story goes, he was going to play a drumming piece for one of the local shrines and decided to add somewhat of a jazz-style flair to the piece.

Plutarch is the source also for the story that the victorious Spartan generals, having planned the demolition of Athens and the enslavement of its people, grew merciful after being entertained at a banquet by lyrics from Euripides's play Electra: " they felt that it would be a barbarous act to annihilate a city which produced such men " ( Life of Lysander )

* The play entitled Esther ( 1960 ), written by Welsh dramatist Saunders Lewis, is a retelling of the story in Welsh.

Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature, with a story capable of " seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others.

However, elements of Belleforest's version which are not in Saxo's story do appear in Shakespeare's play.

Hamlet also contains a favourite Shakespearean device, a play within the play, a literary device or conceit in which one story is told during the action of another story.

Academic Laurie Osborne identifies the direct influence of Hamlet in numerous modern narratives, and divides them into four main categories: fictional accounts of the play's composition, simplifications of the story for young readers, stories expanding the role of one or more characters, and narratives featuring performances of the play.

< p > There is the story of the woman who read Hamlet for the first time and said, " I don't see why people admire that play so.

George Bernard Shaw's praise for Johnston Forbes-Robertson's performance contains a sideswipe at Irving: " The story of the play was perfectly intelligible, and quite took the attention of the audience off the principal actor at moments.

The best-known is Tom Stoppard's 1966 play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead which retells many of the events of the story from the point of view of the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as well as giving them a backstory of their own.

Caridad Svich's 12 Ophelias ( a play with Broken Songs ) includes elements of the story of Hamlet but focuses on Ophelia.

The New York Times reviewed the play saying " Mr. Davalos has molded a daft campus comedy out of this unlikely convergence ," and nytheatres review said the playwright " has imagined a fascinating alternate reality, and quite possibly, given the fictional Hamlet a back story that will inform the role for the future.