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Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry 1907-2005, English dramatist, b. Bristol as Christopher Fry Harris. Like his friend and mentor, T. S. Eliot , he was one of the few 20th-century dramatists to write successfully in verse. Fry's first major success was The Lady's Not for Burning (1949), a wry comedy set in the... Read more |
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Fry, Christopher
Fry, Christopher [ Christopher Harris] (1907– ), English dramatist, who took his stage name...transferred to the Globe with Gielgud as Thomas, consolidated Fry's reputation, and seemed to herald a renaissance of poetic drama on... |
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Fry, Christopher (Harris)
Fry, Christopher (Harris) (1907– ), playwright, made his name with works...short-lived, giving way to the kitchen sink school and Fry's later plays were less successful. Fry also wrote several screenplays, and successful translations... |
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Poetic Drama
...1937) by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood were valued in their...Christ's Comet (1938) by Christopher Hassall. After the Second World...the production of new plays by Christopher Fry and T. S. Eliot, while Dylan... |
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Messel, Oliver Hilary Sambourne
...most memorable settings was that for Anouilh's Ring round the Moon (1950), translated by Christopher Fry, and he provided the sets for two of Fry's own plays, The Lady's not for Burning (1949) and The Dark is Light Enough (1954... |
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Burton, Richard Walter
...Burton. He made his début in Emlyn Williams's The Druid's Rest (1944) and later appeared in three plays by Christopher Fry—The Lady's not for Burning (1949; NY, 1950), The Boy with a Cart, and A Phoenix Too Frequent (both 1950... |
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Seattle Repertory Theatre
...895-seat Seattle Center Play House in 1963, its first season including King Lear, Max Frisch's The Firebugs, Christopher Fry's The Lady's not for Burning, and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. A financial crisis in 1970 (overcome... |
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Anouilh, Jean-Marie-Lucien-Pierre
...London his first outstanding success was L'Invitation au château, translated as Ring round the Moon (1950) by Christopher Fry, with Paul Scofield as the twin brothers Hugo and Frédéric. The same translation was used in America, which was... |
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Minack Theatre
...all over Britain, plays ranging from Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to the works of such writers as Anouilh, Christopher Fry, and Alan Ayckbourn. Many improvements have been made to the theatre, which seats 600 and is now administered by... |
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Arts Theatre
...vital centre, producing a wide range of plays and winning for it the status of a ‘pocket national theatre’. Christopher Fry's The Lady's not for Burning had its first performance here in 1948, with Clunes as Thomas Mendip. The theatre... |
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Cornell, Katharine
...The Constant Wife (1951), U. N. delegate Mary Prescott in The Prescott Proposals (1953), and the Countess in Christopher Fry's The Dark Is Light Enough (1955). Her last appearance was as Mrs. Patrick Campbell in Dear Liar (1960... |
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Paradise Lost
...Lost. 1. Opera in 2 acts by Penderecki to lib. by Christopher Fry adapted from Milton's poem (1658–64, pubd. 1667...1978, Stuttgart 1979. 2. Dramatic cantata by Christopher Steel, Op.34, for sop., ten., and bass soloists... |
 "The Economist (US)")
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Christopher Fry.(Christopher Fry, an English playwright)(Obituary)
Christopher Fry, England's last successful playwright...THE County Theatre in Bedford gave Christopher Fry his first taste of the stage...those were fine. What terrified young Christopher, so much that he could not bear to... |
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Playwright Christopher Fry Dead at 97
...2005 Dateline: LONDONPlaywright Christopher Fry, a Christian humanist who helped...at the age of 97, his son said.Fry died on June 30 in the hospital in Chichester, southern England, Tam Fry said. The cause of death was not... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Arts: The gent's still for quoting In his heyday, Christopher Fry was famous...
...glass fragments everywhere. "I have known Christopher since 1935," he tells me. "And, yes...No one has found the right plot."The Christopher in question is 91-year-old Christopher Fry, the playwright who was so famous for... |
 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Obituary: Christopher Fry.(Comment)
...cause of God by 2,000 years. But Christopher Fry was a profoundly religious man...the fire service by TS Eliot. Fry said that he had no head for heights...died in 1987. They had a son Christopher Fry, writer; born December 18... |
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Christopher Fry; a dramatic reassessment of the Fry/Eliot era of British...
9781933146621 Christopher Fry; a dramatic reassessment of the Fry/Eliot era of British verse drama. Jessup, Frances...active stage director as well as a poet, contends that Fry (1907-2005) stands squarely in the mainstream of poetic... |
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Remembering Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry, 97, died recently, raising everywhere the question, "Who?" Fry was a busy figure in English theater from...anyway, just nodding as if they were. Fry was among the fairly small number of playwrights... |
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Christopher Fry
PLAYWRIGHT Christopher Fry, a Christian humanist who helped T S...A master of whimsical comic verse, Fry's best-known plays, The Lady's...use of the atom bomb. Born in Bristol, Fry trained as a teacher and taught for a... |
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Christopher Fry, writer of 'Lady's Not for Burning' OBITUARY
...International Herald Tribune 07-06-2005 Christopher Fry, the British playwright who created...Chichester, England. He was 97. Fry will be remembered as the most gifted...Sussex. In the 1930s and 1940s, Fry and his wife, the former Phyllis... |
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Playwright Christopher Fry dead at 97
...2005 Dateline: LONDONPlaywright Christopher Fry, a Christian humanist who helped...at the age of 97, his son said.Fry died on June 30 in the hospital in Chichester, southern England, Tam Fry said. The cause of death was not... |
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Updated Event: Martin Amis, Christopher Buckley and Richard Dawkins to Join...
...famed public intellectual Christopher Hitchens and his good...actor and writer Stephen Fry, scheduled for live...including Martin Amis and Christopher Buckley via Satellite...Life, Love and Hates of Christopher Hitchens." In what... |
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