• After Dark or After Dark: A Tale of London Life is an 1868 melodramatic play by the Irish writer Dion Boucicault. It includes a scene where a character...
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  • After Dark (Boucicault play), written by Dion Boucicault After Dark (Farjeon play), a 1926 play by the British writer Joseph Jefferson Farjeon After Dark...
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    Dionysius Lardner "Dion" Boucicault /ˈdaɪˌɒn ˈbuːsɪˌkoʊ/ (né Boursiquot; 26 December 1820 – 18 September 1890) was an Irish actor and playwright famed...
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    by Dion Boucicault. It was originally titled The Vampire when it was first performed at the Princess's Theatre in London in 1852. Boucicault renamed it...
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  • Royston and Harry Gilbey. It is an adaptation of the 1868 play of the same name by Dion Boucicault. A baronet's son marries a barmaid in order to qualify...
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    rural soap opera). and Zoe in Mark Ravenhill's adaptation of the Dion Boucicault play, The Octoroon, and appearing in Neil Gaiman's podcast series, The Sandman...
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  • (2003) by William Shakespeare — Don Armado London Assurance (2006) by Dion Boucicault — Sir Harcourt Courtly Twelfth Night (2006) by William Shakespeare — Malvolio...
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    The Octoroon (category Plays by Dion Boucicault)
    The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. Extremely popular, the play was kept running...
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    UK, Peter Pan's costume was a reddish tunic and dark green tights, such as that worn by Nina Boucicault in 1904. This costume is exhibited at Barrie's...
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    1843, in Staffordshire, England. After playing as an amateur he appeared at Astley's Theatre under Dion Boucicault, enacting on 26 January 1863, the...
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    Theater in the United States (category American plays)
    plays (Bronson Howard's Shenandoah). Other key dramatists during this period are David Belasco, Steele MacKaye, William Dean Howells, Dion Boucicault...
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  • the fictional colleges of the University of Oxford. Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials novels feature a number of fictional Oxford colleges, most notably...
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    Struwwelpeter (category Short stories adapted into plays)
    the following year, again playing 41 performances from 14 December, this time with Lawrence Grossmith as Peter, Nina Boucicault as Harriet and 11-year-old...
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    First World War, the theatre featured comedies and musical comedies. Dion Boucicault Jr., became manager in December 1915 and opened with a revival of Peter...
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    Fuller and Leclercq divorced in 1871. In 1868 Leclercq played Eliza in Boucicault's After Dark and Kate Jessop in his Lost at Sea; in 1875 she was the...
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    on performances of plays by Dion Boucicault and William Shakespeare in the family home. He also got a small part in Boucicault's The Shaughraun in the...
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    departure of director Robin Phillips, Mendes took over a production of Dion Boucicault's London Assurance at Chichester. Later that year, Mendes made his West...
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    the original on 2013-10-12. Retrieved 2013-10-30. Jefferson, Joseph; Boucicault, Dion (1895). Rip Van Winkle (Introduction). Dodd, Mead and Company. pp...
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    Thames serving as the Hellespont between the lovers. Dion Boucicault mentions Leander in his play The Colleen Bawn (1860). Corrigan refers to Hardress Cregan...
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    Under the Gaslight (category 1867 plays)
    was able to successfully get an injunction against Dion Boucicault over his 1868 play After Dark, which also had a train scene, a case that became an important...
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    association with Wexford Arts Centre London Assurance by Dion Boucicault Lady G: Plays and Whisperings of Lady Gregory by Lady Augusta Gregory, additional...
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    of The Vampire (1852), a play by Dion Boucicault. Boucicault himself played the lead role to great effect, though the play itself had mixed reviews....
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    in February 1890. In May 1890 Warner played 'Old Tom' in the revival of Dion Boucicault's melodrama, After Dark, at Melbourne's Theatre Royal. In late-June...
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    theatre from 1863–67 also favored spectacular productions. In 1866, Dion Boucicault's The Long Strike (his adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester novels...
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    burlesque. The most successful dramatists were James Planché and Dion Boucicault, whose penchant for making the latest scientific inventions important...
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    novel concept at that time. Dion Boucicault had been a forerunner, directing spectacular productions of his own plays, but Robertson applied the directorial...
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    August 1868 he was, at the Princess's, the original Bellingham in Boucicault's After Dark. He became Professor of Elocution at the Royal Academy of Music...
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  • monopoly on drama held by the Patent theatres. Irish playwright Dion Boucicault (1820–90) was an extremely popular writer of comedies who achieved success...
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    of 21, he made his stage debut in a Cincinnati, Ohio, production of Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn (1867). Also in 1867, Edwin Forrest embarked on a "farewell...
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    Press, 1913. Grene, Nicholas. The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel. Cambridge University Press, February 1999. ISBN 0-521-66536-1...
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