Further intrigues to reduce Britain's commitment to Western Front Offensives included sending men and guns to Italy and Palestine, although Robertson was able to block Lloyd George's plan to make Palestine the main theatre of operations by having Allenby, the commander in that theatre, make the impossible demand that thirteen extra divisions be sent to him.

General Alexander Löhr, the theatre commander, was convinced the island could be taken with two divisions, but decided to keep 6th Mountain Division in Athens as a reserve.

The trio of generals was completed by Prince Waldeck, commander of the Dutch contingent in theatre.

Never an admirer of General Douglas MacArthur, Bradley was instrumental in convincing Truman to dismiss MacArthur as the overall commander in the Korean theatre after MacArthur resisted administration attempts to scale back strategic objectives in the Korean War.

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran ( February 28, 1712 – September 14, 1759 ) was a French soldier best known as the commander of the forces in North America during the Seven Years ' War ( whose North American theatre is called the French and Indian War in the United States ).

While Lucas consolidated, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, the German commander in the Italian theatre, moved every spare unit to be found into a ring around the beachhead, where his gunners had a clear view of every Allied position.

Used alone, the term referred to the senior military officer ( equivalent to a war theatre commander, the emperor remaining the supreme commander ) of the Empire.

The Rhineland theatre in 1697 was again quiet: the French commander, Marshal Choiseul ( who had replaced the sick de Lorge the previous year ), was content to remain behind his fortified lines.

20 Armoured Brigade was relieved by 1 Mechanised Brigade, and a new senior British military officer, Lieutenant General John McColl arrived in theatre to become deputy commander of the occupation land forces.

Code named Jael ( a reference to the Old Testament heroine who killed an enemy commander by deception ) it would have attempted to deceive the Germans into thinking that the Allies had delayed the invasion for a further year, instead concentrating on the Balkan theatre and air bombardment of Germany through 1944.

Du Yuming (; 1904 – 1981 ) was a Kuomintang field commander active in the Sino-Japanese War theatre of World War II and in the Chinese Civil War from 1945 to 1949.

Within the operational theatre the commander undertakes tasks as directed by the Military Strategic level, ambiguity continues to relate to adversary capability and intent but is coupled with own directive ambiguity, the commander not having the full sight of the strategic imperative.

The first choice for commander in Europe was U. S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower, as he had successfully directed the Allied landings and subsequent march into Germany during World War II, amid many inter-Allied controversies over the proper conduct of the campaign in the western theatre.

Civil-Military Co-operation ( CIMIC ) is the military function through which a commander links to civilian agencies active in a theatre of operations.

At the same time, Admiral William Halsey, Jr., the Allied theatre commander, was under pressure from his superiors to complete the replacement of the 2nd Marine Regiment, which had been in combat on Guadalcanal since August, with fresh Army troops.

The initial supreme commander of the theatre was General Sir Archibald Wavell while head of the short-lived American-British-Dutch-Australian Command which was dissolved after the fall of Singapore and the Dutch East Indies.

US and Chinese forces serving in the South East Asian theatre, organised as the Northern Combat Area Command or NCAC commanded by Stilwell, answered directly to the Supreme Commander because Stilwell refused to serve under the 11th Army Group commander George Giffard.

In February 1943 Tedder took command of Mediterranean Air Command, serving under U. S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower ( the theatre commander ), and in that role was closely involved in the planning of the Allied invasion of Sicily and then the Allied invasion of Italy.

Clifton-James then flew to Algiers where over the next few days he made a round of public appearances with General Henry Wilson, the Allied commander in the Mediterranean theatre.

* Colonel Evripidis Bakirtzis, commander of ELAS ' Macedonian theatre

The Austrian commander, Michael von Melas, was slow to pursue the retreating French and was soon replaced as overall Coalition commander in the theatre by the brilliant Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov.

The defenders had sufficient time to prepare strong fortifications there, and in the Carso theatre to the east, and the Italian regiments, under overall command of General Cadorna, found themselves repeatedly repulsed in harsh fighting.

However, the execution of each plan fell to the various theatre commanders, in the case of Fortitude this was Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ( SHAEF ) under General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Washington ’ s unit spent the summer of 1779 recruiting and remounting, and on November 19, 1779, was transferred to the Southern theatre of war, and marched to join the army of Major General Benjamin Lincoln in Charleston, South Carolina.

The theatre was greatly altered in the early 1920s, with the General Manager, W. J. MacQueen-Pope, spending the war reparation money on refurbishing the auditorium.

The FEFEO was created on paper by General de Gaulle in October 1943, however the actual composition of a full scale expeditionary force-the C. L. I ./ Gaur were small specialized units-dedicated to liberate French Indohina from the outnumbering Japanese forces was delayed as the European theatre of operations, and the liberation of metropolitan France, became a top priority for deployment of the limited French forces.

He told the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, that he would like Browning to take over VIII Corps in the event that Richard O ' Connor were transferred to another theatre.

General Sir Harry Chauvel, GCMG, KCB ( 16 April 18654 March 1945 ) was a senior officer of the Australian Imperial Force who fought at Gallipoli and in the Middle Eastern theatre during the First World War.

" A swift victory over the main armies in the main theatre of war was the German General Staff's solution for all outside difficulties, and absolved them from thinking of war in its wider aspects.

Once Salonika became the sole Mediterranean theatre the MEF was commanded by General Archibald Murray who was based in Egypt and whose command also involved defence of the Suez Canal from Turkish attacks.

Marcil acted in a number of theatre productions before landing the role of Brenda Barrett on the soap opera General Hospital in 1992.

The university harbours a huge central library ( University of Coimbra General Library ), botanical gardens ( Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra ), stadiums and other sports facilities ( Estádio Universitário de Coimbra sports complex and Campo de Santa Cruz stadium ), an astronomical observatory, a publishing house, a private chapel ( São Miguel Chapel ), a theatre ( Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente ), and many support facilities such as dining halls and studying rooms.

After a short interregnum under the actor Richard Ainley, son of the famous Henry Ainley, in 1963 the post of Principal was taken by Nat Brenner, a distinguished actor and theatre technician and, at that time, General Manager of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre.

In 2002, under an agreement between the Shubert Organization, which owns the theatre, and General Motors, it was renamed the Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre.

He was born in Edinburgh to the actor and theatre manager Frederick Henry Yates and held an appointment for a period in the General Post Office as an adult.

He served as General Manager of Belgrade International Theatre Festival ( BITEF ) and Bitef theatre in two consecutive mandates.

At the end of July, Lieutenant-General Archibald Wavell was appointed to the rank of local general and sent to Cairo to be General Officer Commanding-in-Chief ( GOC-in-C ) of the newly created Middle East Command with responsibility for the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre ; this command had operational control of all ground forces in Egypt, the Sudan, Palestine, Transjordan, and Cyprus.

In March 1941, in the period before the Anglo-Iraqi War, the C-in-C Middle East General Archibald Wavell, who was preoccupied with existing problems in his theatre, gained approval for Iraq to come under India's operational control again but once hostilities commenced in May Wavell was obliged by London reluctantly to reassume responsibility.

Some key figures in the development of improvisational theatre are Avery Schreiber, Viola Spolin and her son Paul Sills, founder of Chicago's famed Second City troupe and originator of Theater Games, and Del Close, founder of ImprovOlympic ( along with Charna Halpern ) and creator of a longform improv format known as The Harold.

All of the original cast ( except Harold Ramis ) were from the Toronto branch of The Second City theatre improv troupe, and many had previously worked together on The David Steinberg Show.

Redgrave's final theatre appearance came in May 1979 when he portrayed Jasper in Simon Gray's Close of Play, directed on the Lyttelton stage at the National Theatre by Harold Pinter.

Here, Mirbeau can be seen as anticipating the theatre of Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Aymé, Harold Pinter, and Eugène Ionesco.

As he aged, Gielgud sought out distinctive new voices in the theatre, appearing in plays by Edward Albee ( Tiny Alice ), Alan Bennett ( Forty Years On ), Charles Wood ( Veterans ), Edward Bond ( Bingo, in which Gielgud played William Shakespeare ), David Storey ( Home ), and Harold Pinter ( No Man's Land ), the latter two in partnership with his old friend Ralph Richardson, but he drew the line at being offered the role of Hamm in Beckett's Endgame, saying that the play offered " nothing but loneliness and despair ".

It was fully booked out for its limited run at The Arts Theatre and well reviewed by Harold Hobson, the prevailing West End theatre critic of the time.

In 1982, Hayes dedicated Riverside's The Shakespeare Center with New York theatre producer, Joseph Papp, and in 1985 returned to the New York stage in a benefit reading for the company with a reading of A Christmas Carol with the late Raul Julia, Len Cariou, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Carole Shelley, Celeste Holm and Harold Scott, directed by W. Stuart McDowell.

The playlet " Look Back in Hunger " ( spoofing John Osborne's Look Back in Anger ) in the episode " The East Cheam Drama Festival " from the fifth series, showed that writers Galton and Simpson were in touch with developments in the British theatre, in the use of sighs and silent pauses, something Osborne's style had in common with the plays of Harold Pinter, whose work began to emerge towards the end of the series ' run.

He received the Queen ’ s Jubilee Medal, and the Harold, ( a Toronto theatre peer award ).

* Prince, Harold, Contradictions: Notes on twenty-six years in the theatre, Dodd, Mead ISBN 0-396-07019-1 ( 1974 autobiography )

Between 2 February and 24 March 2007, Isaacs played Ben, opposite Lee Evans ( Gus ), in the critically acclaimed 50th-anniversary production of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, at Trafalgar Studios, in London, his first theatre performance since appearing in The Force of Change ( 2000 ).

Crawford suggested that Harold Clurman, then a play reader for the Guild, invite Odets to a meeting to discuss new theatre concepts they were developing with Lee Strasberg.

Examples of dramatic monologues in the theatre include The Stronger ( 1898 ) by August Strindberg, Krapp's Last Tape ( 1958 ) by Samuel Beckett and Landscape by Harold Pinter.

Harold Hobson was quick to recognize the importance of the play " as a landmark of British theatre.

Solo Arts was the first semi-permanent home to the Upright Citizens Brigade's Harold Teams and is considered by some to be the group's first theatre.

Harold Teams are improvisational house teams at the UCB Theatre, made up of graduates from the UCB Training Center, who perform the longform " The Harold " at the theatre on a regular basis.

The Gate also featured three separate festivals of the works of Harold Pinter, the first theatre in Europe to do such retrospectives.

Marber's theatre directing credits include Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter ( National Theatre ), The Old Neighbourhood by David Mamet, ( Royal Court Theatre, London ) and The Caretaker by Harold Pinter, ( Comedy Theatre, London ).

After this, the theatre hosted a variety of works, including seasons of plays by Charles Hawtrey in 1913, 1914 and 1924, and Harold Brighouse's Hobson's Choice in 1916.

It opened at the New Watergate theatre club ( currently Harold Pinter Theatre ) on October 11, 1956 and the cast included Richard Harris as Louis and Anthony Quayle as Eddie, with Lighting Design by Lee Watson.

It was staged by the Group Theatre, a New York theatre company founded by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg, of which Odets was a member.

The creation of in-yer-face theatre parallels the history of more-prevalently accepted literary-critical coinages by critics like Martin Esslin ( Theatre of the Absurd ), who extended the existential philosophical concept of the Absurd to drama and theatre in his 1961 book of that title, and Irving Wardle ( Comedy of menace ), who borrowed the phrase from the subtitle of The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace, by David Campton, in 1958 reviews of productions of Campton's play and of The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter, applying Campton's subtitle to Pinter's work.