morality play

CHESTER Little Theatre Youth Theatre are presenting their original version of the medieval morality play Everyman this week.

It seemed that there is a morality play here, a fight between good and evil,' Tijam said during the oral arguments on the quo warranto case filed by Solicitor General Jose Calida at the high court.

It would have been the final fairy tale chapter in the great Myanmar morality play - a stage set with heroines and villains, somehow more good, or more evil than the rest of us.

Some specific subjects discussed are the morality play tradition, and fashioning English whiteness in The RevengerAEs Tragedy.

A show about rich people living out their most sadistic and depraved fantasies (think: The Hunger Games) would constitute an intriguing, if not unique, morality play. But by casting the robots themselves as the protagonists, Westworld probes the human condition much more deeply.

They make a plan to take the money if no one claims it but things begin to go wrong in a modern morality play with a stunning twist.

A morality play of sorts, "The Humble Assessment" lays bare the inherent deceptions of corporate jargon's Orwellian double-talk and, through the eyes of one average man, reveals the dire consequence of each human life.

"Everyman" is a 15th-century morality play in which one man faces his reckoning with God.

Bryony Lavery, whose adaptation this is from the Dickens original, directed by Tessa Walker, has kept her possible desire for experimentation to a minimum, added some cheerful music and songs (by Jason Carr) and thus providing the city with a robust and occasionally rollicking morality play which is both funny and thoughtful.

Vanhees's curious new novel veers dramatically among several genres before finally settling in as a sort of morality play, but the theme of the story is an apocalyptic dystopia in which the world is slowly dying.

His prescription is a call for Americans to shift from a "Ptolemaic" conception of the world, in which they play out a self-centered morality play on the global stage, largely oblivious of the effects of their propensity for violence, to a more "Copernican" understanding of America's real place in the world.

THERE'S a chance next week to see what is in effect, a modern morality play.