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Richard Kindersley 's sculpture The Seven Ages of Man in London. " All the world's a stage " is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare 's pastoral comedy As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII Line 139. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play and catalogues the seven stages ...
A Midsummer Nights Dream - 1954 (Audiobook) Champagne Charlie - 1954. My Fair Lady (Original Cast) - 1956. Stanley Holloway's Concert Party - 1957 [20] Nonsense Verse Of Carroll And Lear - 1957 [21] Gobbledegook Songs - 1957 [22] The Concert Party -1958 [23] ' Ere's 'Olloway - 1958. Alice In Wonderland - 1958.
Monologue. In theatre, a monologue (from Greek: μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience. Monologues are common across the ...
The monologue is narrated by Tim Tooney, a trumpeter who played on the ocean liner Virginian.He tells the story of Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Novecento, a baby found abandoned on the ship on January 1, 1900, in a crate of lemons and secretly raised by a stoker who named him after himself, the year he was found—"Novecento" literally meaning "nineteen hundred" in Italian—and the inscription ...
The Vagina Monologues also served as inspiration for Yoni Ki Baat, the "South Asian adaptation of The Vagina Monologues", [34] and as loose inspiration for The Manic Monologues, "the mental-illness version of The Vagina Monologues." [35] The Cardinal Newman Society has criticized the performance of the play on Catholic college campuses. [36]
Stanley Augustus Holloway OBE (1 October 1890 – 30 January 1982) was an English actor, comedian, singer and monologist. He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady. He was also renowned for his comic monologues and songs, which he performed and recorded throughout ...
Tithonus (poem) Alfred, Lord Tennyson, author of "Tithonus". " Tithonus " is a poem by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92), originally written in 1833 as "Tithon" and completed in 1859. It first appeared in the February edition of the Cornhill Magazine in 1860. Faced with old age, Tithonus, weary of his immortality, yearns for ...
Faith Healer. Faith Healer is a play by Brian Friel about the life of the faith healer Francis Hardy as monologued through the shifting memories of Hardy, his wife, Grace, and stage manager, Teddy. It was first produced in 1979. The play was voted as one of the 100 most significant plays of the 20th century in a poll conducted by Royal National ...