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The play is set in three different periods of time in a small Italian restaurant in Northern England. When Gerry Stratton plans a family meal out with his two grown up sons to celebrate his wife, Laura’s 54th birthday and proposes an almost prophetic toast to ‘happy times’, he has no idea of the events that will unfold over the course of that evening. Their elder son, Glyn (played by ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Christmas plays" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 ...
A Nativity play or Christmas pageant is a play which recounts the story of the Nativity of Jesus. It is usually performed at Christmas , the feast of the Nativity. For the Christian celebration of Christmas, the viewing of the Nativity play is one of the oldest Christmastime traditions, with the first reenactment of the Nativity of Jesus taking ...
Season's Greetings is a 1980 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. It is a black, though often farcical, comedy about four days in the life of a dysfunctional family starting on Christmas Eve, and is set in a typical English suburban house.
The New York Times, though bemoaning a "lag" in action as the adult children monologues appear in the latter portion of the play, nonetheless determined the work "is as pure as mathematics in its translation of the prosaic into the abstract. At its most touching, the play collapses time and space into moments of disarming, and affecting, beauty ...
The author, age 6, is photographed on Christmas in 1971. "The Joe Namath uniform did NOT land as effectively as the castle set," the author writes.
From sugar-plums dancing in children’s heads to the jolly old elf exclaiming, “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”, the poem first published in a Troy, New York, newspaper in ...
Hughes was the author of the book, with the lyrics and music being derived from traditional Christmas carols, sung in gospel style, with a few songs created specifically for the show. The show was first performed Off-Broadway on December 11, 1961, and was one of the first plays written by an African American to be staged there.