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Television and Film

  1. Societe Film d'Art, Societé Film d'Art -> French film group formed for the express purpose of transferring prestigious stage plays starring famous performers to the screen
  2. Commando Nanny -> 2004 TV series
  3. Todd TV < 2004 TV show produced by Endemol
  4. Adorenarin doraibu Or Adrenaline drive - Directed by Shinobu Yaguchi, this parody of popular Japanese teenage romances uses slapstick to tell the not-so-classic “robbers versus robbers” story. An explosion at a Yakuza nest (*) puts a timid nurse and a rental car clerk in possession of a briefcase of blood-soaked money. The rest is a wild ride as the nurse is transformed into a glamorous heroine and outsmarts the gangsters out to recover the loot. For 10 points--name this 1999 movie starring Masanobu Ando and Hikari Ishida. [1]
  5. Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered 2004-2005 PBS show hosted by Tucker Carlson
  6. Sweet Young Foxes -> 1983 film
  7. Cry for Cindy -> 1976 film
  8. the Merry Cavalier < 1926 film by Noel Mason or Laughing Cavalier

Drama

  1. The 1960 Masks -> theater company founded by Nigerian Wole Soyinka in 1960
  2. The Orisun Repertory -> theater group founded by Nigerian Wole Soyinka in 1964
  3. Exodos -> the final scene / departure used a lot in old Greek plays, dramas, and Old Comedy. It usually follows the last stasimon - redirects to bible related topic
  4. Fabula crepidata - Give the Roman theatrical genre, given clues and examples. ... This type of theatre revolved around tragedy and Greek subjects, Seneca’s work is the best example. [2]
  5. Fabula ricinata - Give the Roman theatrical genre, given clues and examples. ... Invented by the Romans, this wildly popular genre involved mime. It was extremely violent and obscene, and featured live sex acts.[3]
  6. Fabula saltica - Give the Roman theatrical genre, given clues and examples. ... Also invented by the Romans, and also featuring pantomime, this much more serious theatrical genre was a solo storytelling dance based on history and myth.[4]
  7. Le Pas d'acier -> 1925 ballet by Sergei Prokofiev about industrialism in the Soviet Union. Also called "Age of Steel"
  8. Urvasi Won By Valor, Vikramorvasi -> Kalidasa drama about a nymph who is loved by King pururavas.
  9. El Astrologo Fingido < Pedro Calderón de la Barca work
  10. the Thousand Cranes -> play adapted from the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
  11. A Shower of Gold - play by Donald Barthelme
  12. Ah Sin < 1877 play by Bret Harte and Mark Twain
  13. The Lightning-Rod Man < Herman Meliville play
  14. My Children! My Africa! - by play Athol Fugard
  15. The Filling Station -> ballet by Virgil Thomson that centers on Mack, the attendant, who is visited by a golfer and his family, two truck drivers, a gangster, and a state trooper.
  16. Loaves and Fishes < Loaves and Fishes: A Comedy in Four Acts by W. Somerset Maugham
  17. George Lucius Salton -> See Jewish Foundation
  18. the Lost Lady < The Lost Lady: A Tragy Comedy, 1637 play by William Berkeley (governor)
  19. Bound East for Cardiff -> Play by Eugene O'Neill
  20. the Sheep Well -> Play by Lope de Vega: See Fuente Ovejuna?
  21. Red Oleanders -> Play by Rabindranath Tagore
  22. The Woman from Andros -> Either a novel by Thornton Wilder or a Roman comedy named Andria