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  2. Endgame (play) - Wikipedia

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    Nagg: Hamm's father who has no legs and lives in a dustbin. Nagg is gentle and fatherly, yet sorrowful and aggrieved in the face of his son's ingratitude. Nell: Hamm's mother who has no legs and lives in a dustbin next to Nagg. Reflective, she delivers a monologue about a beautiful day on Lake Como, and apparently dies during the course of the ...

  3. Fin de partie (opera) - Wikipedia

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    Nagg and Nell, Hamm's very old parents, each trapped in a dustbin, without legs; The tensions between the four characters exasperate each of them: Hamm cannot abide his parents and their chatter. Nell can barely tolerate Nagg. Clov regards the others wearily. All four wait for an end to the inertia and claustrophobia of their situation.

  4. Play (play) - Wikipedia

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    [4] Beckett had used similar imagery before, Mahood's jar in The Unnameable, for example, or the dustbins occupied by Nell and Nagg in Endgame. At the beginning and end of the play, a spotlight picks out all three faces, and all three characters recite their own lines, in what Beckett terms a "chorus"; [3] the effect is unintelligible.

  5. Beckett on Film - Wikipedia

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    Beckett on Film was a project aimed at making film versions of all nineteen of Samuel Beckett 's stage plays, with the exception of the early and unperformed Eleutheria. This endeavour was successfully completed, with the first films being shown in 2001. The project was conceived by Michael Colgan, artistic director of Dublin 's Gate Theatre.

  6. The Actor's Nightmare - Wikipedia

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    October 14, 1981. (1981-10-14) Place premiered. Playwrights Horizons. New York City. Genre. Comedy. The Actor's Nightmare is a short comic play by Christopher Durang. It involves an accountant named George Spelvin, who is mistaken for an actor's understudy and forced to perform in a play for which he does not know any of the lines.

  7. The Nightmare Before Christmas - Wikipedia

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    The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 American gothic stop motion animated musical fantasy film [6] directed by Henry Selick in his feature directorial debut and produced and conceived by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, the King of " Halloween Town", who stumbles ...

  8. Nell Mangel - Wikipedia

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    Nell Mangel (also Worthington) is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Vivean Gray. She made her first on-screen appearance on 29 April 1986 and was known almost exclusively as Mrs Mangel. The character caused controversy among some of the public, who in turn abused Gray constantly because of Nell.

  9. Nell Campbell - Wikipedia

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    Musical artist. Laura Elizabeth Campbell (born 24 May 1953), better known as Nell Campbell or by her stage name Little Nell, is an Australian actress, singer, and former club owner. She is best known for her role as Columbia in the 1975 film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the original stage play from which it was adapted.