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David Ives (born July 11, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is perhaps best known for his comic one-act plays; The New York Times in 1997 referred to him as the "maestro of the short form". [ 1 ]
All in the Timing is a collection of one-act plays by the American playwright David Ives, written between 1987 and 1993.It had its premiere Off-Broadway in 1993 at Primary Stages, [1] and was revived at Primary Stages in 2013. [2]
A captive audience meeting is a mandatory meeting during working hours, organized by an employer with the purpose of discouraging employees from organizing or joining a labor union. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is considered a union-busting tactic.
Words, Words, Words is a one-act play written by David Ives for his collection of six one-act plays, All in the Timing.The play is about Kafka, Milton, and Swift, three intelligent chimpanzees who are put in a cage together under the experimenting eye of a never seen Dr. Rosenbaum, a scientist testing the hypothesis that three apes hitting keys at random on typewriters for an infinite amount ...
This convention is similar to the bell ringing in Ives's previous work Sure Thing (one of six plays in the collection All in the Timing). As the play progresses the audience learns that the couple is in a tenuous state in their relationship and the happiness seen as the play opens is not the prevalent mood. Ruth is Jewish; Jack is a former ...
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Captive audience meeting, a mandatory meeting used by employers to oppose unionization; A legal concept in: Rowan v. United States Post Office Department, 1970, in which the United States Supreme Court created a quasi-exception to free speech in cases in which a person is held as a "captive audience"
Captive Audience: A Real American Horror Story is a 2022 three-part true crime docuseries directed by Jessica Dimmock and executive produced by The Russo brothers, [1] which premiered on Hulu April 21, about the 1972 kidnapping and eventual 1980 return of Steven Stayner and the impact it had on the Stayner family (especially older brother Cary, who would later commit murder in 1999).