In order to prepare the role of an important old actress, a theatre student interviews three actresses who were her pupils: an international diva ( Glòria Marc, played by Núria Espert ), a television star ( Assumpta Roca, played by Rosa Maria Sardà ) and a dubbing director ( Maria Caminal, played by Anna Lizaran ).

The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the " Weismann's Follies ," a musical revue ( based on the Ziegfeld Follies ), that played in that theatre between the World Wars.

A LARP is played more like improvisational theatre.

Troubled by Britain's failure to increase defences at Singapore, Menzies was cautious in committing troops to Europe, nevertheless in 1940 – 41, Australian forces played prominent roles in the fighting in the Mediterranean theatre.

The Rococo additionally played an important role in theatre.

Many of the originally pornographic French ( and Viennese ) operettas were later played in a toned-down, " classical " version, which is how audiences today are mostly presented with the genre — in an opera house with opera singers, rather than in a private theatre with courtesans in the lead roles.

The work has been translated into numerous languages and is one of the most frequently played musical theatre pieces in history.

He performed serious roles on screen and stage ( such as his one-man theatre show Darrow, in which he played Clarence Darrow ), as well as providing voice-overs and on-camera appearances for commercials ; cartoons like Zeroman where he had the leading role / voice ; children's shows, such as Pumper Pups, which he narrated, in addition to comedic film roles.

However it is her collaboration with theatre director Scrutzler, played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, which comes to define Nina.

In Germany, comedic theatre performances and events which include public dancing are illegal on the day ( although this restriction is enforced unevenly ); cinemas and television are not affected, although many TV channels show religious material on the day ; sports events are prohibited ( e. g. the usual Friday soccer games are played on Thursday ).

He owned a theatre in Salford for several years, where he played the leads in several plays by William Shakespeare.

They view the physical description of women as evidence of a more farcical intention when considered alongside both the historical context of the Elizabethan theatre ( where female characters were always played by prepubescent boys ) and the Induction in which Sly is attracted to the page disguised as his wife ; thus Shakespeare is satirising gender roles.

Then, when the film was played at the theatre, " the same actors, one at each side of the screen but unseen, repeated the words in what was supposed to be synchronisation.

The part had been played in the theatre by Ethel Barrymore, but Warner Bros. felt that the film version should depict the character as a younger woman.

Although the Bouffes-Parisiens played to full houses, the theatre was constantly on the verge of running out of money, principally because of what his biographer Alexander Faris calls " Offenbach's incorrigible extravagance as a manager ".

In a career mainly devoted to the classical theatre, Scofield starred in many Shakespeare plays and played the title role in Ben Jonson's Volpone in Peter Hall's production for the Royal National Theatre ( 1977 ).

In the theatre of Ancient Greece, three actors played all of the main dramatic roles in a tragedy ; the leading role was played by the protagonist, while the other roles were played by deuteragonist and the tritagonist.

In English theatre tradition, a dumbshow is a masque-like interlude of silent pantomime usually with allegorical content that refers to the occasion of a play or its theme, the most famous being the pantomime played out in Hamlet ( III. ii ).

In 1993, Noël Coward's Relative Values, played at the theatre, having premièred there in 1951.

Fiddler On The Roof, starring Henry Goodman as Tevye, played at the theatre from May 2007 to February 2008 and has been followed mostly by other musicals, including Legally Blonde, which played from January 2010 to April 2012.

( Music often sounds best to me when I can dress informally and sit in something more comfortable than a theatre seat.

Christie describes entirely different working methods for every book in her autobiography thus contradicts this claim, more likely from theatre, screen film and TV adaptations that vary perpetrators to keep viewers coming back.

Other approaches may include a more physical approach, following the teachings of Jerzy Grotowski and others, or may be based on the training developed by other theatre practitioners including Sanford Meisner.

One of the more prominent places people see costumes is in theatre, film and on television.

When it was re-staged in 1923 in a more professional production, the play provoked a theatre riot ( initiated by André Breton ) that heralded the split within the movement that was to produce Surrealism.

Munch's figures appear to play roles on a theatre stage ( Death in the Sick-Room ), whose pantomime of fixed postures signify various emotions ; since each character embodies a single psychological dimension, as in The Scream, Munch's men and women now appear more symbolic than realistic.

Suddenly, at the peak of madness and confusion, the couples are engulfed by their follies, which transform the rundown theatre into a fantastical " Loveland ", an extravaganza even more grand and opulent than the gaudiest Weismann confection: " the place where lovers are always young and beautiful, and everyone lives only for love ".

Unperturbed and hoping to learn more of Rosicrucianism, Gardner joined the group in charge of running the theatre, the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship, and began attending meeting's held in their local ashram.

One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as " Ol ' Man River ", " Can't Help Lovin ' Dat Man ", " A Fine Romance ", " Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ", " All the Things You Are ", " The Way You Look Tonight ", " Long Ago ( and Far Away )" and " Who ?".

The goddess ' appearance offered contrasting colours to the eye, for her body was dazzling white, intimating her descent from heaven and her robe was dark blue, denoting her emergence from the sea ... But now becomingly took the centre of the stage to the great acclamation of the theatre, and smiled sweetly ... still more affectingly began to gently stir herself ; with gradual, lingering steps, restrained swaying of the hips, and slow inclination of the head she began to advance, her refined movements matching the soft wounds of the flutes.

Such a bed trick has been a dramatic convention since antiquity and was used more than 40 times by every major playwright in the Early Modern theatre era except for Ben Jonson.

In some theaters, the orchestra is the area of seats directly in front of the stage ( called primafila or platea ); the term more properly applies to the place in a theatre, or concert hall reserved for the musicians.

Each emperor had his zone of influence within the Roman Empire, but little more, mainly high command in a ' war theatre '.

Bernard Beckerman defines theatre as what " occurs when one or more human beings, isolated in time and / or space, present themselves to another or others.

Today it is often called Chinese opera although this normally refers specifically to the more well-known forms such as Beijing Opera and Cantonese Opera, there have been many other forms of theatre in China.

Its aim was to add elements of public protest ( agitation ) and persuasive politics ( propaganda ) to the theatre, in the hope of creating a more activist audience.

In the book The Rococo, it is written that there was no other culture which " has produced a wittier, more elegant, and teasing dialogue full of elusive and camouflaging language and gestures, refined feelings and subtle criticism " than Rococo theatre, especially that of France.

Some of the islands ’ more unique aspects to Carnival are the theatre performances and dances.

In 2000, at the age of 81, she appeared Off Broadway in Kenneth Lonergan ’ s The Waverly Gallery and received more awards for a single performance in a single season than any actress in theatre history, including The Drama Desk Award, The Lucille Lortel Award, The Drama League Award and The Outer Critics Circle Award.

* Shakespeare and the Globe from Encyclopædia Britannica ; a more comprehensive resource on the theatre of this period than its name suggests.

In theatre, the pseudonyms George or Georgina Spelvin, David Agnew, and Walter Plinge are used to hide the identity of a performer, usually when he or she is " doubling " ( playing more than one role in the same play ).

The basic issue was Osborne's unwillingness to go through the rewrite process, more arduous in film than it is in the theatre.

He also founded a theatre school in Florence ( Bottega Teatrale di Firenze ), which formed many of the more talented actors of the current generations.

Having grown out of the religiously based mystery plays of the Middle Ages, they represented a shift towards a more secular base for European theatre.