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Fourteen is a play by Alice Gerstenberg. This one-act social satire was first performed October 7, 1919 at the Maitland Playhouse, 332 Stockton Street, San Francisco, on a bill with three other one-act plays. [1] The San Francisco Chronicle remarked that it "gayly lampoons the question of dinner entertainments". [1]
The play made its regional debut in the UK in 2021. The production was directed by Liz Stevenson, in a co-production between the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, the Octagon in Bolton and Theatre by the Lake in Keswick. The production was in the round, the first time the play had been performed in this configuration. [9]
The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2002. [10] Orlandersmith won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Yellowman; the award includes a monetary award of $10,000. [11] The Wilma Theatre production won Philadelphia Barrymore Awards for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Leading Actress in a Play (for Orlandersmith). [3]
A year after Trifles' success, Glaspell turned the play into a short story, retitling it "A Jury of Her Peers". [10] Glaspell used third-person, limited-omniscient narration to express the point of view of Martha Hale. [10] "A Jury of Her Peers" adds irony by "highlighting the impossibility of women facing such a jury at a time when women were ...
Carlotta Monterey and Louis Wolheim in the 1922 production. The Hairy Ape is a 1922 expressionist play by American playwright Eugene O'Neill.It is about a beastly, unthinking laborer known as Yank, the protagonist of the play, as he searches for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by the rich.
Palm-leaf manuscript cover illustrated with scenes from Kalidasa’s Shakuntala play, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, circa 12th century. Plots similar to the play appear in earlier texts. There is a story mentioned in the Mahābhārata. A story of similar plot appear in the Buddhist Jātaka tales as well. In the Mahābhārata the story appears as a ...
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The Ruling Class is a 1968 British play by Peter Barnes. [2] The black comedy centres on Jack Arnold Alexander Tancred Gurney, the 14th Earl of Gurney and the attempts to cure him of insanity . Peter O'Toole acquired the film rights and starred in the 1972 film adaptation .