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9 Parts of Desire (Arabic: تسعة اجزاء من الرغبة) is a play written by Heather Raffo. In the original version, a single performer plays all nine characters. Heather Raffo herself has acted in productions of 9 Parts of Desire. [1] Some productions opt to use multiple actors. [2] Joanna Settle directed the play's first productions.
The staging of this play likely required two sets. It is suggested that the first stage is composed of Mak's house. In Mak's house, many of the farcical actions occur (for example, this is the location of where the sheep was "born"). The other stage is where the holy manger and the religious iconography would occur.
[9] 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 ...
The play is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is a mosaic of interrelated scenes—some funny, some touching, some rueful—which, taken together, create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the ...
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone.After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, the rest of the story is set on a remote island, where Prospero, a wizard, lives with his daughter Miranda, and his two servants: Caliban, a savage monster figure, and Ariel, an ...
Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written", [1] it presents the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.
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The play was written in Middle English during the Tudor period, but the identity of the author is unknown. Although the play was apparently produced with some frequency in the seventy-five years following its composition, no production records survive. [1] There is a similar Dutch-language morality play of the same period called Elckerlijc.