A Sleep of Prisoners is a 1951 verse play by Christopher Fry. It concerns four English prisoners of war locked up in a church overnight, and the Old Testament...
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Christopher Fry (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
which was produced at the St James's Theatre by Laurence Olivier. A Sleep of Prisoners followed in 1951, first performed at St Thomas' church in Regent...
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England in a play by Christopher Fry, A Sleep of Prisoners which was part of the Festival of Britain. It was about four POWs spending a night in a bombed...
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Sleep deprivation, also known as sleep insufficiency or sleeplessness, is the condition of not having adequate duration and/or quality of sleep to support...
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other prisoners, or protection from known rapists may be purposely withheld from the prisoners. These practices create a very high incidence of rape in...
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Denholm Elliott (category British World War II prisoners of war)
Germany. Elliott and four of his crewmen survived, and he spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft VIIIb, a prisoner-of-war camp in Lamsdorf (now Łambinowice)...
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space-time prisoners (时空囚徒) is a vampire survival action Chinese webcomic written and illustrated by Bai Xiao. On October 1, 2016, a Chinese-Japanese...
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John Kerr (actor) (category New Star of the Year (Actor) Golden Globe winners)
Dream (1951, Brattle Theatre) Twelfth Night (1951, Brattle Theatre) A Sleep of Prisoners (1952, Brattle Theatre) Ring Round the Moon (1954, Hyde Park Theatre)...
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techniques such as sleep deprivation during interrogation. "The methods consisted of making prisoners stand for long periods, sleep deprivation... playing...
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Each has a concrete sleeping slab, a lavatory, and a small sink. No bedding is provided, so prisoners have to sleep on the slab. Prisoners are denied...
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The future of Palestinian prisoners detained by Israel in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict is considered central to progress in the Israeli–Palestinian...
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Wolston Correctional Centre (section Notable prisoners)
two or more prisoners. This is often achieved by requiring one or more of the prisoners to sleep on the floor. Such overcrowding has led to a dramatic increase...
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Ronald Searle (category British World War II prisoners of war)
E. Bates) Paris Sketchbook, 1950 (with Kaye Webb) (repr. 1958) A Sleep of Prisoners, 1951 (with Christopher Fry) Life in Thin Slices, 1951 (with Patrick...
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This is a list of prisoners who have received a whole life order, formerly called a whole life tariff, through some mechanism in jurisdictions of the United...
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Guantanamo Bay detention camp (redirect from Guantanamo Bay prisoners)
first group of 20 prisoners arrived seven days after the order was given. We were told that the prisoners were the "worst of the worst," a common refrain...
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Nicholas Amer (category Royal Navy personnel of World War II)
Arts Festival in Australia, with both pieces and including a third play A Sleep of Prisoners by Christopher Fry. In July 1966 the Filipino impresario Ralph...
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Stanford prison experiment (redirect from Prisoner experiment)
instructed to prevent prisoners from escaping. The experiment started officially when "prisoners" were arrested by real police of Palo Alto. During the...
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Arise and Conquer (category War of Ages albums)
Tim Lambesis of As I Lay Dying. The band has released a one-minute clip of "Sleep of Prisoners" on their MySpace, as well as the song "Through the Flames"...
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Hypnagogia (redirect from Slumber with a key)
transitional state from wakefulness to sleep, also defined as the waning state of consciousness during the onset of sleep. Its opposite state is described as...
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prisoners. By the end of the temporary truce, Israel released 240 prisoners, of whom 107 were under 18 and three-quarters had not been convicted of a...
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NET Playhouse (redirect from List of NET Playhouse episodes)
Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People (James Daly, Philip Bosco, Kate Reid; December 2, 1966) Christopher Fry's A Sleep of Prisoners (Barry Morse, Jon Voight;...
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This is a list of all inmates of the fictitious Wentworth Detention Centre in the television series Prisoner, known as Prisoner: Cell Block H in The United...
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Leonard White (producer) (category British Army personnel of World War II)
full-time professional acting. In 1951 he was one of the original leads of Christopher Fry's A Sleep of Prisoners, alongside Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker,...
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execution, although this is a rough estimate. A Polish government-in-exile report stated that 11,274 prisoners and 6,314 prisoners of war had been executed...
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Howard Ryshpan (category Canadian people of Polish descent)
comedy by Moss Hart. Howard was one of the performers in the play A Sleep Of Prisoners by Christopher Fry presented on March 3, 1954, in the Van Horne auditorium...
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Super Friends (1980 TV series) (redirect from The Best of Super Friends)
(in "The Krypton Syndrome"), Frank (in "Prisoners of Sleep") Henry Corden – N/A (credit only) Regis Cordic – N/A (credit only) Peter Cullen – John Palette...
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freedom and execution. Three prisoners, A, B, and C, are in separate cells and sentenced to death. The governor has selected one of them at random to be pardoned...
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(1965) A Sleep of Prisoners (1961) The Monkey Cage (1966) "New play from ABC's Queensland studios". TV Times. 24 November 1965. p. 1. Absence of Mr Sugden...
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directed by Max Bostock. Jill Perryman Kevan Johnston A Sleep Of Prisoners (1961) Portrait Of A Star (1963) The Rose and Crown (1963) "Oil boom inspired...
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Margret Milne and Alistair Smart. In addition was the 1961 broadcast of A Sleep of Prisoners. Roundabout – First television drama short produced in Melbourne...
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