Laughton, Charles Reference library
The Companion to Theatre and Performance
...in 1933 to act at the *Old Vic under *Guthrie , playing Angelo in Measure for Measure , Prospero, Macbeth, and Canon Chasuble in *Wilde 's The Importance of Being Earnest . From 1932 he spent most of his time in America creating the roles on film for which he became famous, including Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) and Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1940 ). In later life he collaborated with *Brecht on the first production in English of Galileo (Los Angeles, 1947 ), and his own production of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial ...
Laughton, Charles Reference library
Victor Emeljanow
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
...York in 1931 as Hercule Poirot in an adaptation of Agatha Christie 's The Alibi . He returned to England in 1933 to act at the Old Vic under Tyrone Guthrie , playing Angelo in Measure for Measure , Prospero in The Tempest , Macbeth, and Canon Chasuble in Wilde 's The Importance of Being Earnest . From 1932 he spent most of his time in America creating the roles on film for which he became famous, including Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) and Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1940 ). In later life his most distinguished stage...
Zaks, Jerry (1946) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed.)
...1996 ), Laughter on the 23rd Floor ( 1992 ), Smokey Joe's Cafe ( 1995 ), The Cripple of Inishmann ( 1998 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 2000 ), Epic Proportions ( 2000 ), Little Shop of Horrors ( 2003 ), La Cage aux Folles ( 2005 ), The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial ( 2006 ), and Sister Act ( 2011 ). Equally adept at big musicals as intimate dramas, Zaks is usually at his best with fast‐paced...
Dramatic Performances Act Reference library
Ananda Lal
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
...order the next day with two other performances: Surendra-Binodini ( Surendra and Binodini ) showed mutiny, defiance of a British magistrate, and his attempted rape of a woman; The Police of Pig and Sheep took farcical potshots at Commissioner Hogg and Superintendent Lamb of the Calcutta police. Not surprisingly, Hogg and Lamb arrested the offenders immediately, but a court dismissed all charges. To stop such loopholes the Dramatic Performances Act was passed on 16 December 1876 , banning ‘scandalous, defamatory, seditious or obscene’ productions....
Last Mile, The (1930) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed.)
...( James Bell ) sit out his last moments. Two weeks later it is Eddie Werner's turn to die. But as a guard comes to give Eddie ( George Leach ) his final meal, the other prisoners, led by the hardened, ruthless John Mears ( Spencer Tracy ), seize the guard and kill him. A bloody mutiny has begun, which for a time appears to be succeeding. However, the odds against the prisoners ultimately prove irresistible. Realizing the futility of his uprising, Mears walks out to surrender and is gunned down. Noting that it had been many years since a play caused so much...
Bosco, Philip [Michael] (1930) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed.)
...in The Rape of the Belt ( 1960 ), then over the years Bosco would act for all the notable Manhattan theatre companies, including the New York Shakespeare Festival , Roundabout Theatre , Circle in the Square , and Lincoln Center . Some highlights from his many outstanding performances at these theatres included the understanding father Nat Miller in Ah, Wilderness! ( 1983 ), recovering alcoholic Doc in Come Back, Little Sheba ( 1984 ), paranoid Commander Queeg in The Caine Mutiny Court‐Martial ( 1983 ), and principal Shavian parts, such as...
Dutt, Utpal Reference library
Ananda Lal
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
... of the commercial Minerva Theatre to reach a wider public, and began writing plays. Angar ( Coal , 1959 ), about a mining catastrophe, overwhelmed audiences with the enormity of the disaster by spectacle supported by lighting and sound effects. The Royal Indian Navy mutiny of 1946 provided the subject matter for Kallol ( Waves , 1965 ), LTG's longest-running production. Dutt invented the Bengali documentary drama with Manusher Adhikare ( People's Rights , 1968 ), on the 1931 trial of black youths in Scottsborough, Alabama, specifically...
Shah, Naseeruddin (1950) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre
...intezar (‘Waiting in the Coffee House’, 1973 ). Under Satyadev *Dubey as director for Theatre Unit, he acted in Dubey's Apratyashit (‘Unexpected’, 1978 ) and Mahesh *Elkunchwar 's Pratibimb ( Reflection , 1987 ). He formed his own group, Motley, in 1979 to stage *English theatre . Its successes included Beckett 's Waiting for Godot ( 1979 ) and Endgame ( 1982 ), Neil Simon 's The Odd Couple ( 1986 ), Herman Wouk 's The Caine Mutiny Court Martial ( 1989 ), Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar ( 1990 ), and Mahatma vs Gandhi ( 1997 ,...
Dutt, Utpal (1929–93) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre
...the use of lights, sound, music, visual grandeur, tense acting, and melodramatic situations. He eminently succeeded: the spell held viewers captive and receptive to the message. His longest-running play at the Minerva was Kallol (‘Waves’, 1965 ), on the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in 1946 . Dutt mounted his last memorable production at the Minerva, Manusher adhikare (‘Of People's Rights’, 1968 )—about the 1931 Scottsborough trial in Alabama of black youths on trumped-up charges—as documentary drama, a genre not seen in Bengali theatre before. Reading...
Gujarati theatre Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre
...by Umashankar *Joshi and Sundaram , novels by Pannalal Patel , and short stories by Chunilal *Madia provided a realistic base to the portrayal of rural Gujarat. Life in the state was generally full of the sense of sacrifice and hope. Quit India was followed by the Naval mutiny in Bombay, but the old Gujarati theatre remained blissfully unaffected. Instead, the so-called ‘new’ (amateur) theatre rose from the 1920s with missionary zeal, led by C. C. *Mehta and K. M. *Munshi who, writing and producing original plays, reflected realism under Western...
