It was the same man who later wrote Lunatic And Lover, a play about Strindberg's love life, Summer In Gossensass, about Ibsen's late love, and Meeting In Rome, which starred Kenneth Haigh, an account of a fictional meeting between the two giants; and, in 1992, adapted Gissing's The Odd Women, which I directed for the Royal Exchange.
And after her fictional meeting with a royal, Monroe met a real head of state: Queen Elizabeth II.
A theatrical piece, it imagines a fictional meeting between John Lennon and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and includes Matt Marks's orchestral arrangement of the Beatles Revolutionon 9" and works by Luciano Berio and John Orfe.
The place I chose for this fictional meeting is real: the rusted-out body of a car, dating back 70 years or more, from the looks of it.
Part concert, part stage show, written by Andrew Kupfer and directed by Nigel Maister, "1969" imagines a fictional meeting between the former Beatle (and sometime avant-gardist) John Lennon and the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, with actors portraying them.
He won acclaim for his portrayal of Malcolm X opposite Paul Winfield's Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1978 NBC mini-series "King," and again in several theatrical productions of Jeff Stetson's play "The Meeting," which depicted a fictional meeting between the two civil rights leaders.
Travesties Tom Stoppard's comedy of errors centres on the fictional meeting between three seminal revolutionaries of the 20th century: Vladimir Lenin, James Joyce and Tristan Tzara, the founder of the Dada movement, while sticking them into a rewrite of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
The play, "Imagining Madoff," by Deb Margolin, included a fictional meeting between Bernard L. Madoff and Mr. Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and writer, who lost several million dollars of his wealth as well as all of the assets of his foundation, in Mr. Madoff's huge Ponzi scheme.
In the role of the narrator Henry Wilford Carr, a British consular official who knew James Joyce, he conjures up a fictional meeting in 1917 of three philosophical revolutionaries: Joyce, Lenin and Tristan Tzara, a Dadaist poet, as he recalls performing in Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest".
