A Patriot for Me
Based on Alfred Redl's life, the play depicts a homosexual officer in Austro-Hungarian intelligence who is blackmailed by Russia into treasonous betrayals, against a backdrop of a declining empire.
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Based on Alfred Redl's life, the play depicts a homosexual officer in Austro-Hungarian intelligence who is blackmailed by Russia into treasonous betrayals, against a backdrop of a declining empire.
A middle-aged Jimmy Porter lives with his daughter Alison, whose contempt for his misanthropic rants grows as his old friend Cliff tries to mediate and her friend Helena offers support. Alison ultimately leaves her father.
Epitaph for George Dillon is an early John Osborne play, one of two he wrote in collaboration with Anthony Creighton (the other is Personal Enemy). It was written before Look Back in Anger, the play which made Osborne's career, but opened a year after at Oxford Experimental Theatre in 1957, and was then produced at London's Royal Court theatre, where Look Back in Anger had debuted. It transferred to New York City shortly afterwards and garnered three Tony Award nominations.
Inadmissible Evidence is a play written by John Osborne in 1964. It was film adapted in 1968.
In a cramped Midlands flat, working-class Jimmy Porter’s attacks on his upper-middle-class wife Alison intensify as their friend Cliff tries to mediate. Alison leaves with her father, and Jimmy begins an affair with her friend Helena. Months later Alison returns after losing her baby; Helena leaves, and Jimmy and Alison reconcile through their private game of bears and squirrels.
Act 1 Scene 1 – The Convent of the Augustinian Order of Eremites at Erfurt, 1505 Luther is accepted into St. Augustine's Monastery in Erfurt. His father, Hans, expresses scepticism and scorn for excessive religion. Luther displays anguished guilt at what he believes to be his own imperfections and sins. Scene 2 – The same. A year later Luther is preparing to conduct his first Mass as a priest. Another friar, Brother Weinand, tries to persuade him not to exaggerate his own wickedness, and gently dismisses Luther's anxiety as "a few imaginary sins". Luther, is tormented mentally by guilt and physically by constipation. Scene 3 – Two hours later In the refectory of the monastery after the celebration of Mass, Luther's father is a guest. He has most reluctantly accepted his son's monastic vocation but has nevertheless made a generous donation to the monastery's funds. He drinks too much at luncheon and his comments make clear his disappointment that his intellectually brilliant son has confined himself to a religious order. Act 2 Scene 1 – The Market Place, Jüterbog. 1517 Johann Tetzel, described by Osborne as "an ecclesiastical huckster", addresses a crowd of local people, persuading them to part with their money in exchange for papal indulgences (originally a remission of penance in exchange for a pious donation, but by 1517 represented by such as Tetzel as complete absolution for all sins). Scene 2 – The Eremite Cloister, Wittenberg. 1517 The Vicar General of the Augustinian Order, Johann von Staupitz, has sent for Luther. Staupitz respects and admires the young friar, and has much sympathy for Luther's scorn of relics and outrage at indulgences. He counsels Luther to be moderate in his public criticisms. Scene 3 – The steps of the Castle Church, Wittenberg. Eve of All Saints. 1517 Luther preaches a sermon scorning scholarly sophistication and insisting that faith alone is the key to salvation. He then nails to the church door his 95 theses against indulgences, issued as a challenge to Tetzel or anyone else to engage him in theological debate. Scene 4 – The Fugger Palace, Augsburg. October 1518 Cardinal Cajetan, the Papal Legate to Germany, has sent for Luther. The latter's views are by now seen by the Church as verging on heresy, and Cajetan tries, in vain, to persuade Luther to retract. Cajetan warns that Luther's views, if pursued, will cause the break-up of Christendom. Scene 5 – A hunting lodge, Magliana, Italy. 1519 Pope Leo X dictates a decree ordaining that unless Luther recants his views, he will be a heretic and will be excommunicated. Scene 6 – The Elster Gate, Wittenberg. 1520 Luther has by now broken completely from the Roman Catholic Church. He preaches a sermon denouncing the Pope. He burns the papal decree of excommunication and prays for God's support. Act 3 Scene 1 – The Diet of Worms. 1521 Luther engages in theological debate with Johann von Eck, who represents orthodoxy against Luther's revolutionary preachings. Luther demands that his opponents should refute his arguments by showing that the Bible contradicts them. He rejects the authority of the Pope and of church councils. Scene 2 – Wittenberg. 1525 A knight, who has until this point merely announced to the audience the time and place of each scene, now has a long speech commenting on the civil disorder that has erupted in the wake of Luther's religious revolution. He engages Luther in conversation, and it emerges that Luther is hostile to the peasant uprising. The knight is deeply disillusioned. Luther prepares to marry an ex-nun. Scene 3 – The Eremite Cloister, Wittenberg. 1530. Luther and his wife are living in the former monastery. Staupitz, now an old man, visits them, and looks round the building nostalgically. Luther expresses regret at turning Staupitz's world upside down. He is stung when he believes Staupitz disapproves of his siding with the princes against the peasants during the uprisings. Staupitz counsels moderation, as he had done in 1517. He leaves, and Luther muses aloud while cradling his baby son in his arms.
In a 1953 American town, the Constant family learns that Don, believed killed in Korea, is alive but has defected to North Korea. A federal investigator probes the family's ties to communist librarian Ward Perry, while Arnie defends his friendship with Ward and his own beliefs. Political suspicion tears at the household and its idealized image of American life.
A John Osborne double bill pairing The Blood of the Bambergs, subtitled “A Fairy Story,” with Under Plain Cover.
When a prince is killed in a road accident on his way to a politically important wedding, officials recruit Russell, an Australian photographer who resembles him, to take his place. Russell is reluctant until he learns of the role's privileges and the princess he would marry.
Archie Rice, a failing music-hall performer, lives amid his family's tensions as his father Billy recalls an earlier era, his daughter Jean returns, and wartime news of Archie's son Mick turns their hopes to grief. Archie clings to performance while Britain's fading imperial confidence echoes through the family's decline.
A journalist investigates a seemingly ordinary suburban couple whose private lives include elaborate role-playing games. When he discovers they are siblings, his story helps fracture their lives, and he comes to regret the tabloid intrusion that helped create their distress.
Based on Alfred Redl's life, the play depicts a homosexual officer in Austro-Hungarian intelligence who is blackmailed by Russia into treasonous betrayals, against a backdrop of a declining empire.
A middle-aged Jimmy Porter lives with his daughter Alison, whose contempt for his misanthropic rants grows as his old friend Cliff tries to mediate and her friend Helena offers support. Alison ultimately leaves her father.
Epitaph for George Dillon is an early John Osborne play, one of two he wrote in collaboration with Anthony Creighton (the other is Personal Enemy). It was written before Look Back in Anger, the play which made Osborne's career, but opened a year after at Oxford Experimental Theatre in 1957, and was then produced at London's Royal Court theatre, where Look Back in Anger had debuted. It transferred to New York City shortly afterwards and garnered three Tony Award nominations.
Inadmissible Evidence is a play written by John Osborne in 1964. It was film adapted in 1968.
In a cramped Midlands flat, working-class Jimmy Porter’s attacks on his upper-middle-class wife Alison intensify as their friend Cliff tries to mediate. Alison leaves with her father, and Jimmy begins an affair with her friend Helena. Months later Alison returns after losing her baby; Helena leaves, and Jimmy and Alison reconcile through their private game of bears and squirrels.
Act 1 Scene 1 – The Convent of the Augustinian Order of Eremites at Erfurt, 1505 Luther is accepted into St. Augustine's Monastery in Erfurt. His father, Hans, expresses scepticism and scorn for excessive religion. Luther displays anguished guilt at what he believes to be his own imperfections and sins. Scene 2 – The same. A year later Luther is preparing to conduct his first Mass as a priest. Another friar, Brother Weinand, tries to persuade him not to exaggerate his own wickedness, and gently dismisses Luther's anxiety as "a few imaginary sins". Luther, is tormented mentally by guilt and physically by constipation. Scene 3 – Two hours later In the refectory of the monastery after the celebration of Mass, Luther's father is a guest. He has most reluctantly accepted his son's monastic vocation but has nevertheless made a generous donation to the monastery's funds. He drinks too much at luncheon and his comments make clear his disappointment that his intellectually brilliant son has confined himself to a religious order. Act 2 Scene 1 – The Market Place, Jüterbog. 1517 Johann Tetzel, described by Osborne as "an ecclesiastical huckster", addresses a crowd of local people, persuading them to part with their money in exchange for papal indulgences (originally a remission of penance in exchange for a pious donation, but by 1517 represented by such as Tetzel as complete absolution for all sins). Scene 2 – The Eremite Cloister, Wittenberg. 1517 The Vicar General of the Augustinian Order, Johann von Staupitz, has sent for Luther. Staupitz respects and admires the young friar, and has much sympathy for Luther's scorn of relics and outrage at indulgences. He counsels Luther to be moderate in his public criticisms. Scene 3 – The steps of the Castle Church, Wittenberg. Eve of All Saints. 1517 Luther preaches a sermon scorning scholarly sophistication and insisting that faith alone is the key to salvation. He then nails to the church door his 95 theses against indulgences, issued as a challenge to Tetzel or anyone else to engage him in theological debate. Scene 4 – The Fugger Palace, Augsburg. October 1518 Cardinal Cajetan, the Papal Legate to Germany, has sent for Luther. The latter's views are by now seen by the Church as verging on heresy, and Cajetan tries, in vain, to persuade Luther to retract. Cajetan warns that Luther's views, if pursued, will cause the break-up of Christendom. Scene 5 – A hunting lodge, Magliana, Italy. 1519 Pope Leo X dictates a decree ordaining that unless Luther recants his views, he will be a heretic and will be excommunicated. Scene 6 – The Elster Gate, Wittenberg. 1520 Luther has by now broken completely from the Roman Catholic Church. He preaches a sermon denouncing the Pope. He burns the papal decree of excommunication and prays for God's support. Act 3 Scene 1 – The Diet of Worms. 1521 Luther engages in theological debate with Johann von Eck, who represents orthodoxy against Luther's revolutionary preachings. Luther demands that his opponents should refute his arguments by showing that the Bible contradicts them. He rejects the authority of the Pope and of church councils. Scene 2 – Wittenberg. 1525 A knight, who has until this point merely announced to the audience the time and place of each scene, now has a long speech commenting on the civil disorder that has erupted in the wake of Luther's religious revolution. He engages Luther in conversation, and it emerges that Luther is hostile to the peasant uprising. The knight is deeply disillusioned. Luther prepares to marry an ex-nun. Scene 3 – The Eremite Cloister, Wittenberg. 1530. Luther and his wife are living in the former monastery. Staupitz, now an old man, visits them, and looks round the building nostalgically. Luther expresses regret at turning Staupitz's world upside down. He is stung when he believes Staupitz disapproves of his siding with the princes against the peasants during the uprisings. Staupitz counsels moderation, as he had done in 1517. He leaves, and Luther muses aloud while cradling his baby son in his arms.
In a 1953 American town, the Constant family learns that Don, believed killed in Korea, is alive but has defected to North Korea. A federal investigator probes the family's ties to communist librarian Ward Perry, while Arnie defends his friendship with Ward and his own beliefs. Political suspicion tears at the household and its idealized image of American life.
A John Osborne double bill pairing The Blood of the Bambergs, subtitled “A Fairy Story,” with Under Plain Cover.
When a prince is killed in a road accident on his way to a politically important wedding, officials recruit Russell, an Australian photographer who resembles him, to take his place. Russell is reluctant until he learns of the role's privileges and the princess he would marry.
Archie Rice, a failing music-hall performer, lives amid his family's tensions as his father Billy recalls an earlier era, his daughter Jean returns, and wartime news of Archie's son Mick turns their hopes to grief. Archie clings to performance while Britain's fading imperial confidence echoes through the family's decline.
A journalist investigates a seemingly ordinary suburban couple whose private lives include elaborate role-playing games. When he discovers they are siblings, his story helps fracture their lives, and he comes to regret the tabloid intrusion that helped create their distress.