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The play takes place in 21st century Oklahoma, as well as both 21st and 17th century Manahatta (popularly known as Manhattan Island). The show follows Jane Snake as she rises the ranks of Wall Street investment firm Lehman Brothers in the years leading up to and during the 2007–2008 financial crisis. Meanwhile, her family, specifically her ...
A periaktos (plural form periaktoi, from a Greek word meaning revolving) is a device used for displaying and rapidly changing theatre scenes. It was first mentioned in Plato 's Republic , in the story, "Allegory of a Cave" (c. 375 BCE), but its most intense use began in Renaissance theatre , as a result of the work of important theatrical ...
Giacomo Torelli (1 September 1608 – 17 June 1678) was an Italian stage designer, scenery painter, engineer, and architect. [1] His work in stage design, particularly his designs of machinery for creating spectacular scenery changes and other special effects, was extensively engraved and hence survives as the most complete record of mid-seventeenth-century set design.
This naval battle was one of the sets for Elkanah Settle's The Empress of Morocco (1673) at the theatre in Dorset Garden.. The Restoration spectacular was a type of theatre production of the late 17th-century Restoration period, defined by the amount of money, time, sets, and performers it required to be produced.
17th-century theatre managers (28 P) T. Theatres completed in the 17th century (31 C) Pages in category "17th-century theatre" The following 18 pages are in this ...
Jonson's play uses this fair as the setting for an unusually detailed and diverse panorama of early seventeenth-century London life. The one day of fair life represented in the play allows Jonson ample opportunity to not just conduct his plot, but also to depict the vivid life of the fair, from pickpockets and bullies to justices and slumming ...
The Oklahoma National Stockyards — the last big-city stockyard in the U.S. — is for sale. The $27 million price tag includes 100 acres (40 hectares) of prime property along the Oklahoma River ...
Refinement meets burlesque in Restoration comedy. In this scene from George Etherege's Love in a Tub, musicians and well-bred ladies surround a man who is wearing a tub because he has lost his trousers. Restoration comedy is English comedy written and performed in the Restoration period of 1660–1710. Comedy of manners is used as a synonym for ...