La Voix humaine is deceptively simple — a woman alone on stage for almost one hour of non-stop theatre speaking on the telephone with her departing lover.

According to Medak, the project got started one night that he and O ' Toole were returning from the theatre, which " meant stopping at every pub between Soho and Hampstead, and it didn't matter if it was after closing hour because he would knock on the door and just say ' Peter's here ,' and every door opened for him "; Later on, at O ' Toole's apartment, the deeply inebriated actor phoned his manager and said, " I'm with the crazy Hungarian and I know I'm drunk but I give you 24 hours to set this movie up.

Albers ' crew of 35 workers ( mostly Coast football players paid 60 cents an hour ) turned an Army movie theatre into an auditorium and concert hall ; a service club into a 500-seat gymnasium ; an Army chapel into a facility for theatre productions and student / staff weddings ; a military storage building into a library ; an Army PX into a student center ; a battalion headquarters building into an administration building ; and several cadet barracks into student dormitories and married student and faculty housing.

The intermissions in Kabuki theatre can last up to an hour.

* Rosebud, located one hour east of Calgary, is home to Rosebud Theatre, Alberta's only rural professional theatre.

While most mainstream theatre shows are two or three acts long, taking two to three hours with intermissions, fringe shows tend to be closer to one hour, single-act productions.

Against this trend, Juan José Luján, Antonio Riquelme and José Vallés, three actors, had the idea of splitting the afternoon at the theatre into four parts of one hour each, creating the so-called sesiones por horas, or " performances by the hour ", which cost barely a real, and were given in down-market theatres.

Gregory is the focus of the first hour of the film as he describes some of his experiences since he gave up his career as a theatre director in 1975.

Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s various colleges at the University of Guelph produced a half hour radio program for CJOY in a sound booth in the Massey Hall drama practice theatre.

suTCo ( Sheffield University Theatre Company ) produce nine plays a year at the Drama Studio, a studio theatre converted from a church, as well as the biennial 24 Hour Charity Musical-rehearsed, choreographed, designed and produced within a 24 hour period.

In 1987, he was cast by Peter Brook in The Mahabharata, a six hour theatre piece that toured the world, and he also featured in its 1989 film version.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

Shakespeare had a word for everything, even for the rain that disrupted Wednesday night's `` Much Ado About Nothing '' opening the season of free theatre in Central Park.

Then Orestes had Hierax tortured in public in a theatre.

During their occupation of the town, they made such gestures as flying the tricolour over the Atheneum theatre, which they had made their headquarters, and parading uniformed in the streets.

Unlike the previous generation of British film makers who had broken into directing and production after careers in the theatre or on television, the Art Cinema Directors were mostly the products of Art Schools.

Before The Sorcerer, Gilbert had constructed his plays around the established stars of whatever theatre he happened to be writing for, as had been the case with Thespis and Trial by Jury.

By this time Thomas Holt had left teaching and moved into theatrical and artist management in partnership with the noted entrepreneur Hugh D. McIntosh, owner of the Tivoli theatre circuit.

His mother, of Irish and German descent, had been a reviewer of film and theatre for the Akron Beacon Journal before marrying his father, a businessman of Czech and German descent who worked for the B. F. Goodrich Company.

Besides painting, Yeats had a significant interest in theatre and in literature.

Critics applauded Spacey's daring for taking on the management of a theatre, but noted that while his acting was impressive, his skills and judgment as a producer / manager had yet to develop.

He went on to study law at Prague University ; during that time he also became involved in theatre ( as an actor he first appeared in Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek's play Czech and German in July 1832 in Benešov ), where he met Eleonora Šomková, with whom he had a son out of wedlock.

The second, the Greek theatre, which Böttiger had been interested in since his time as a drama critic in Weimar ; his unfavorable review of August Wilhelm Schlegel's Ion was withdrawn at the request of Goethe.

After the war, while working as a plumber's assistant at a local community theatre in Upstate New York, Marvin was asked to replace an actor who had fallen ill during rehearsals.

Howard Ashman, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz had previous musical theatre experience and wrote songs for animated films during this time, supplanting Disney workhorses the Sherman Brothers.

Peake's play The Cave, which dates from the mid-1950s, was given a first public reading at the Blue Elephant Theatre in Camberwell ( London ) in 2009, and had its world premiere in the same theatre, directed by Aaron Paterson, on 19 October 2010.

The Empire had reached the end of its ability to effectively conduct an assertive, expansionist policy against its European rivals and it was to be forced from this point to adopt an essentially defensive strategy within this theatre.

Monteverdi had moved to the city from Mantua and composed his last operas, Il ritorno d ' Ulisse in patria and L ' incoronazione di Poppea, for the Venetian theatre in the 1640s.

Some Oxfordians believe that Shakespeare acted as a " front man ," receiving the plays from Oxford and pretending to have written them, but others claim that he was simply a merchant from Stratford who had nothing to do with the theatre.

In the 15th and 16th centuries in Italy the households of nobles had musicians to provide music for dancing and the court, however with the emergence of the theatre, particularly opera, in the early 17th century, music was increasingly written for groups of players in combination, which is the origin of orchestral playing.

In 1927, Kern and Hammerstein had their biggest hit, Show Boat, which is often revived and is still considered one of the masterpieces of the American musical theatre.

Beginning in 1914, both Lasky and Famous Players released their films through a start-up company, Paramount Pictures Corporation, organized early that year by a Utah theatre owner, W. W. Hodkinson, who had bought and merged several smaller firms.

This was one of the first occasions satirical political mimicry had been attempted in live theatre and it shocked audiences.

The Café Vaterland had remained largely untouched, but the 1, 200-seat theatre was now a 1, 400-seat cinema.

In 1756, the Seven Years War broke out between the great powers of Europe, and India became a theatre of action, where it was called the Third Carnatic War.

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.

He later explained that " The subject is great, immense, and has a character that is one of the most important creations of the theatre of all countries and all Ages .".

Along with the other great forests of Tolkien's legendarium such as Mirkwood, Fangorn and Lothlórien it serves as the central stage in the theatre of its time, the First Age.

The great Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski developed storyboards in his detailed production plans for his Moscow Art Theatre performances ( such as of Chekhov's The Seagull in 1898 ).

The agora, the theatre, an odeum, a temple of Dionysus, a temple of the Muses, a temple of Aphrodite and a great number of minor buildings have been identified, and the general plan of the city has been very clearly made out.

The theatre once more enjoyed great popularity until competition from video arcades and cable TV forced Collins to close some three years later.

For the four years that the theatre was open it was a great success but it had to be closed as a result of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.

Suchet began his acting career at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, Berkshire, and retains a great affection for the place, saying that it " fulfils my vision of a perfect theatre ".

In 1881 Wilson Barrett took over the recently refurbished Princess's Theatre, where his melodramatic productions enjoyed great success ( if not quite as much as before ), with attendance being the highest ever for this theatre.

Along with the other great forests of Tolkien's legendarium such as Mirkwood, Fangorn and Lothlórien it serves as the central stage in the theatre of its time, the First Age.

Further demonstrating his great talent and versatility in the theatre, Ustinov later did set and costume design for Don Giovanni.

On 23 December he appeared in Congress, then sitting at Annapolis, and returned his commission as Commander-in-Chief: " Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action ; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.

The character of Hedda is considered by some critics as one of the great dramatic roles in theatre, the " female Hamlet ," and some portrayals have been very controversial.

Audiences come to autobiography for direct connection and great stories, both sometimes hard to find in today's theatre.

The first Danish theatre, Lille Grönnegade, was created and the great dramatist Ludvig Holberg began his career.

Athens became the great city of Greek theatre.

Following his retirement from the theatre he finally had time to concentrate on the composition of his three great symphonies and two well-known Norwegian rhapsodies.

In 1774 he sold his share in the great playhouse, which had involved him in much litigation with his partners, to Leake ; and three years later he purchased of Samuel Foote, then broken in health and spirits, the little theatre in the Haymarket.

In 1807 he played leading parts in the Belfast theatre with Sarah Siddons, who began by calling him “ a horrid little man ” and on further experience of his ability said that he “ played very, very well ”, but that “ there was too little of him to make a great actor ”.

His first great success was achieved by La vendemmiatrice, an Italian intermezzo or operetta, composed for the Aliberti theatre in Rome and received with universal applause.

Her celebrity status has been called " mythical " and " monumental ," and by " the mid-1780s Siddons was established as a cultural icon, along with Hannah Murphy, another theatre great of the time.

* El gran teatro del mundo ( World's great theatre ) ( play )-Pedro Calderón de la Barca

The great theatre of the world.