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	Dramatic Effacts of the Play-within-a-Play in Marlowe & Shakespeare
		The play that follows, with speech, acts as an elaboration on the mime, referring to this mime as a kind of 'origin.' Speech becomes in this instance not an affirmation of presence-to-truth (as it does in the Platonic schema), but a rhetorical or dramatic device constructing an illusion of presence.
		Within this circle is Jehovah's name, Forward and backward anagrammatised: Th'abbreviated names of holy saints, Figures of every adjunct to the heavens, And characters of signs and erring stars, By which the spirits are enforced to rise...
		The action of the play, which appears to be the effect of procrastination, is in fact the very enactment of the desire of knowledge (double genitive).
	www.geocities.com /louis_armand/shakespeare_marlowe.html (4620 words)

	Review: Mind Games (May 9 - May 15, 1996)
		The play is full of goofy wordplay--a psychiatrist named Frank asks of his patients that they be as frank as he is--and marvelously comic theatrical turnabouts that keep the audience guessing.
		The three characters in his love triangle are all theatre people, and the play they're rehearsing mirrors their own real-life situation: It's about a director having an affair with a married actress.
		Early on, the wronged husband, the actor Matthew, played as an appealing Everyman by R. Hamilton Wright, confronts his errant wife, the actress Lisa, and her lover, the manipulative director Adrian.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/05-09-96/review1.htm (689 words)

	washingtonpost.com: A Punishing Play-Within-a-Play
		The usually reliable Montgomery Playhouse is staging a play that purports to show a hapless community theater company staging a flop play.
		He also penned "Play On!" It's supposed to be a lighthearted look at rehearsals, and a disastrous opening-night performance, of an English murder-mystery staged by an inept acting company.
		Even his fingers are in constant motion as he layers on richly comic character and mines humor from the thin material.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A25431-2004Dec1?language=printer (433 words)

	Selinsgrove presents a play within a play - November 21, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Assistant director Paula Lewis calls the comedy "a play within a play" because it involves a comedic scenario and performances of Shakespeare as well.
		She decides to go undercover and assumes the name Jane Cash to take a role in the "Romeo and Juliet" play at a high school.
		He is the producer who would not pick Reynolds for his role because of her soap star image, and she assumes the same last name as him for her undercover work hoping people will think she is related to him.
	www.dailyitem.com /archive/2003/1121/fea/stories/07fea.htm (473 words)

	Dickinson State University - Dickinson State Digest
		Before long, the play within a play has become a farce within a farce.
		Clackett (remember, this is a play within a play — almost every character has two parts!), the company’s matron and harried housekeeper.
		Klint Sickler plays Philip, an author hiding from the IRS, and Frederick, an actor who can’t stomach even the mention of violence.
	www.dsu.nodak.edu /digest.asp?ArticleID=982 (387 words)

	Dickens' 'Drood' holds a play within a play
		The play, which opened in 1985 in New York's Delacorte Theater before moving to Broadway, garnered some criticism along with five Tony Awards.
		The play-within-a-play is set in a Victorian-era music hall in London, where the performers move from the dramatic to the comic and melodramatic.
		David M. Fisher brings his stage presence and wry humor to the role of the chairman, emcee/narrator/performer in a play as full of wit as risque humor.
	www.theatreharrisburg.com /Reviews/droodreview.htm (442 words)

	wvc.play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Imagine acting in a play that contains a play within a play.
		"The play is a very funny farce," says Virginia Drake, a West Valley drama instructor and the play's director.
		The audience gets a backstage view of the actors trying to keep their production from sinking even as their play is on stage.
	www.svcn.com /archives/lgwt/03.20.96/wvc.play.html (405 words)

	‘Noises Off’ backstage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The play is about a dysfunctional English theater company rehearsing the farce “Nothing On,” which travels to various small towns around London to put on the play.
		Frayn is taking the bedroom farce and applying it to both the play itself and to the backstage of the play within a play.
		When the play begins the audiences may feel a little confused, but then they will realize that they are watching a rehearsal for a play within a play.
	www.nic.edu /sentinel/archives/vol57/issue5/ae/01ae.html (678 words)

	Play within a play spices up Gourmet Detective 10/26/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cherish Hamutoff plays the star of "He Rang the Bell," Desiree Augratin, an actress who reviewers of the play believe is too old for the part.
		The acting is so good by some of those who play multiple roles that we didn't realize it until the cast list was read after the show.
		Among these was Durack, who also plays the chef and restaurant owner, Fritz Lardi, as well as producer Ken Worthington, with mobster connections, and actor Rafe Jester.
	www.irvineworldnews.com /Bstories/oct26/mystery.html (667 words)

	The Play within a Play
		I am perfectly acquainted with the play, I assure you; and with a very few omissions, and so forth, which will be made, of course, I can see nothing objectionable in it; and I am not the only young woman you find who thinks it very fit for private representation.
		If every play is to be objected to, you will act nothing, and the preparations will be all so much money thrown away, and I am sure that would be a discredit to us all.
		She will play Sir Andrew such as he has never been played before, in grecian garb, with a robe to the floor.
	www.pemberley.com /derby/joym.pwap2.html (9303 words)

	Show-within-a-show -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A show-within-a-show is a fictional (A program broadcast by television) television show featured within the (additional info and facts about fictional universe) fictional universe of a real television show.
		The Valley within (additional info and facts about The O.C.) The O.C. The Brown Hornet within (additional info and facts about Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids) Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
		Tomorrow's Another Day within (Group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent) Generations
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/show-within-a-show.htm (566 words)

	‘The Play Within A Play’ and Its Importance In Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Lucian Blaga’s Master Manole
		Coursework and Essays: By Subject: Literature: ‘The Play Within A Play’ and Its Importance In Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Lucian Blaga’s Master Manol
		Below is a short sample of the essay "‘The Play Within A Play’ and Its Importance In Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Lucian Blaga’s Master Manole".
		It is obvious that the most intense level of dramatic tension is accentuated by a character that has contact with the world of the spirits and is accomplished through the 'play within a play' "gadget".
	www.coursework.info /i/3915.html (398 words)

	Chapter 1: I Go to a 6th Grade Play
		It was a small play, at a small school.
		In the old days those of us who were technically sophisticated used to scoff at those who used a flash to illuminate events far in the distance, let alone a flash to illuminate the setting sun.
		Ah yes, once upon a time there was an age in which people went to enjoy themselves, unencumbered by technology, with the memory of the event retained within their own heads.
	www.jnd.org /dn.mss/chapter_1_i_go_to_a.html (5019 words)

	DYPAC stages play within a play 08/11/04
		The play, written by Michael Frayn, presents a number of challenges for the DYPAC cast, including pulling off demanding situational and physical comedy.
		It is also a "play within a play." The actors are playing actors who at times are acting in a play.
		The play opens as a theatre company is in rehearsals prior to their tour of the farce, "Nothing On." Actors are missing lines, other actors are just missing, and neither the people nor the props ever seem to be where they are supposed to be.
	www.thenewsherald.com /stories/081104/lif_20040811068.shtml (503 words)

	The Play within a Play
		Even without the play finally being performed, there were the rehearsals and the excitement of the play.
		But a play is not such a bad thing as could tarnish her reputation -- if she chuses her part with care and acts with decorum.
		We may be trusted, I think, in chusing some play most perfectly unexceptionable; and I can conceive no greater harm or danger to any of us in conversing in the elegant written language of some respectable author than in chattering in words of our own.
	www.pemberley.com /derby/joym.pwap1.html (5466 words)

	The Music of Michael Crawford in MP3
		More precisely, it means a repeated enfolding-within, such as the play within a play in Hamlet, or the play within a play within a play in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, itself a play derived from Hamlet.
		Recursion is a technique used by mathematicians and computer scientists in which inward repetition, with simple variation, is used to create images of great beauty and complexity, such as the recursive structure of fractals, or fractal images of clouds, mountains, ferns and trees.
		If you found that you couldn't play one of my MP3s, please try downloading it again now (but empty your browser cache first, to be sure you get the new files).
	www.geometricvisions.com /music (1161 words)

	Oldham Era Online: Archives
		The play, which features a play within a play, begins with Alex telling his secretary Sally (Marla Moore) about the loss of his wife.
		The reviews of the play that night at the cast party declare that Monica was a flop.
		The play continues back in present time, and Alex calls the old cast (Alex Mitchell, Ashley Herndon, Audrey Henderson, Kieler Henry and Mike Ronald) back together to read a script that is closely related to events that happened a year ago.
	www.oldhamera.com /articles/2004/11/18/news/news05.txt (319 words)

	Artattack Theatre: The Real Inspector Hound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Inspector Hound, which is now being produced by Artattack Theater Ensemble, is a play within a play, a parody within a parody, a pastiche of unparalled exaggeration and frivolity, and yet strangely, it is also something of a paradox, for indeed, never has stupidity seemed so intelligent.
		The play within a play is itself a spoof of one of Agatha Christie’s most famous ‘whodunits’, The Mousetrap, and takes place in the forlorn and inaccessible Muldoon Manor, somewhere in the nether regions of Britain.
		The rest of the cast is comprised of characters from the play within a play.
	www.ashlandtheaterreview.com /Hound.html (786 words)

	BoiseWeekly: Arts: Stage: Play-Within-A-Play
		Fortunately, his addiction is theater not drugs, but that can be as time-consuming and life-absorbing as feeding a golden arm.
		Myers is presently directing Private Eyes at the Stage Coach Theatre, his 17th play in the past 10 years.
		The author, Steven Dietz, is noted for writing plays community theaters love to produce, including the Stage Coach show last March, Rocket Man.
	www.boiseweekly.com /gyrobase/PrintFriendly?oid=oid:2955 (456 words)

	Theater review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This adventurous new work by Kevin Barry receiving its world premiere by the Know Theatre Tribe is really a play within a play within a rehearsal of a play within a play.
		He wants to satirize his own play, but he also wants to get serious in exploring the conflict between the middle-aged couple and the Gen-Xers.
		But it's hard to have any emotional involvement in characters who have repeatedly told you they are just actors playing characters (who themselves have been playing characters).
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2001/06/17/tem_theater_review.html (404 words)

	Stage Review: Play within a play weighs show down
		The absentee director hasn't got a clue, the cast is conspiring to sabotage an actor's performance, a love triangle is dragging down the work and the star is a pompous jerk.
		That's only part of the problem with the play within the play that closes this year's Pittsburgh New Play Festival.
		The result is a play that at times rambles, overstates minor plot points and abruptly jerks in too many directions at once.
	www.postgazette.com /ae/20040214gemini0214fnp3.asp (394 words)

	UH News Release - REALITY BASED PLAY WITHIN PLAY SHOWCASES ACTORS’ VERSATILITY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		They survive an 8-month sea voyage to the settlement and attempt to stage the first play ever presented on the largely unknown continent.
		Based on the novel "The Playmaker" by "Schindler’s List" author Thomas Kenneally, the Timberlake Wertenbaker play is about the theater itself, incorporating humor and intellect to display the strength of human spirit.
		With most of the prisoners illiterate, and one about to be hanged, the group works together to stage the play and conquer their fears and loneliness.
	www.uh.edu /admin/media/nr/2002/022002/countrysgood.htm (261 words)

	Play within a play - Linux World January 2000
		Caldera played the role of David to Redmond's Goliath.
		But the drama that unfolded between July 1996 and January 2000 is not really the whole play.
		This episode is rather, like something out of Shakespeare, nothing more than a device, a play within a play.
	www.kegel.com /remedy/archive/f_lw-01-vcontrol_4.html (2510 words)

	The Hindu : A play within play
		The Madras IITians played it with a difference at Natak 2001, the inter-collegiate theatre festival.
		He grounded him as the play went on happily thereafter.
		It depicts an honest attempt to reflect the pain, tears and fatigue that every woman feels at some point of time in her life.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/11/24/stories/09240351.htm (350 words)

	Find in a Library: Play within a play; the dramatist's conception of his art: Shakespeare to Anouilh.
		Find in a Library: Play within a play; the dramatist's conception of his art: Shakespeare to Anouilh.
		Play within a play; the dramatist's conception of his art: Shakespeare to Anouilh.
		To find a library, type in a postal code, state, province, or country.
	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/760c2c962884d4eb.html (72 words)

	Monmouth College comedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Even with the help of stage manager Aggie, played by freshman Catherine Lenhardt of Woodridge, and the excellent but sarcastic tech supervisor Louise, played by junior Kim Hurley of LaGrange, the play falls apart when the curtain opens with line mess-ups, missing props, a crumbling set and an aggravated author.
		Troublemaker Saul is played by junior Adam Drake of Rockford; overacting Billy is sophomore Michael Heaton of Canton; spacey Violet is performed by junior Lindsey Markel of Sidell; and the role of first-time actress and high school student Smitty is played by freshman Holly Sanders of Peoria.
		Tickets for “Play On!” are $4 for Monmouth College students, faculty and staff; $5 for other students and senior citizens and $6 for adults.
	department.monm.edu /cata/gallery/2425/PlayOn/pressrelease.htm (366 words)

	Little Theater To Feature Play Within a Play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is the natural progression of rehearsal to dress rehearsal to the performance of a play put on by a community theater.
		The play focuses on the rehearsal and production of the play "Murder Most Foul," for the community theater’s first production of a new play by a new playwright, Phyllis Montague.
		Anyone who has ever been in a play will be tickled by the authenticity of the situations.
	www.hesston.edu /horizon/news/news3.htm (496 words)

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	"SIX CHARACTERS" PLAY-WITHIN-A-PLAY EXPLORES REALITY AND ILLUSION--OPENS OCT. 4
		Six people-who claim to be characters from a play abandoned by their author-make a sudden appearance and seek new life by asking the actors to enact their drama.
		The "characters" are pairs of actors playing the same role-an onstage masked "character" and an offstage voice-over "character"-thereby creating a distinction between "characters" and the other actors in the play.
		The greatest challenge for both these "character" actors and the technical staff is the coordination of the pairs of players.
	www.fau.edu /divdept/schmidt/nr/september/09_19_six.htm (390 words)

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