title: The Syringa Tree
Memory play
Dancing at Lughnasa
Steve Johnson and Kayla Brady
List of Coronation Street characters (1979)
The Waverley Gallery
Peter Lockyer
The English Traveler
The Glass Menagerie
The Seafarer (play)
sentences: The Syringa Tree is a deeply personal memory play of a childhood under apartheid.
 Written and often performed by Pamela Gien, and directed by Larry Moss, it has received excellent reviews in New York and across the USA as well as in London.
 Also very positively reviewed in Dublin, the play has received several awards.
Memory play is a play in which a lead character narrates the events of the play, which are drawn from the character's memory.
 The term was coined by playwright Tennessee Williams, describing his work "The Glass Menagerie".
 In his production notes, Williams says, "Being a 'memory play', "The Glass Menagerie" can be presented with unusual freedom of convention."
 In a widening of the definition, it has been argued that Harold Pinter's plays "Old Times", "No Man's Land" and "Betrayal" are memory plays, where "memory becomes a weapon".
 Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa" is a late 20th-century example of the genre.
Dancing at Lughnasa is a 1990 play by dramatist Brian Friel set in Ireland's County Donegal in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg.
 It is a Memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Evans, the narrator.
 He recounts the summer in his aunts' cottage when he was seven years old.
Steve "Patch" Earl Johnson and Dr. Kayla Caroline Brady are a supercouple on the American soap opera "Days of Our Lives".
 Steve is portrayed by Stephen Nichols and Kayla is portrayed by Mary Beth Evans.
 On the Internet message boards[5] the couple is often referred to by the portmanteau "Stayla" (for Steve and Kayla).
 The couple was initially popular from 1986 through 1990 until the "death" of Steve.
 Both characters have recently returned: after Steve being presumed dead for 16 years, Steve returned to the show on June 9, 2006; Kayla returned on June 12, 2006.
 Steve and Kayla were dropped off canvas in February 2009.
 Kayla returned in December 2011.
 In August 2015, Steve returned to Salem.
Herbert Harrison "Bert" Tilsley was played by Peter Dudley.
 He was the first husband of Ivy Brennan and the father of Brian Tilsley.
 Prior to his debut in 1979, Ivy had referred to her husband as 'Jack' and mentioned that they were childless.
 During his final months on "Coronation Street" in 1983, Bert had been left partially disabled after being in an accident in Brian's garage involving a tyre compressor unit.
 This was because actor Peter Dudley had suffered a stroke in real life but wanted to continue to appear in the series and so the garage accident was devised to explain his condition.
 Bert's last appearance was in July 1983, and he died (offscreen) in January 1984 of a heart attack while in a psychiatric hospital, following a nervous breakdown.
 Actor Peter Dudley died in October 1983 (three months before the character's offscreen death) after suffering a further stroke and multiple heart attacks.
The Waverly Gallery is a play by Kenneth Lonergan.
 It is considered a "memory play".
 The show, first produced Off-Broadway in 2000, follows a grandson watching his grandmother slowly die from Alzheimer's disease.
 The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001.
Peter Lockyer is an American actor and singer.
 He was born in Poughkeepsie, NY.
 As a child, he split his time between Toronto and Connecticut, and went to the same high school as actress Gretchen Mol.
 Lockyer has appeared in numerous productions, including "Miss Saigon" as Chris, "Les Misérables" as Marius, and "La Boheme" on Broadway.
 He has also appeared in a tour of "The Phantom of the Opera" and on TV with Bette Midler in a 1993 adaption of "".
 After a break in performing, during which he earned dual master's degrees, qualifying him to teach in New York City, Lockyer returned to acting for the European tour of Barbra Streisand's "Broadway Boys".
 He has also performed "42nd Street" in Europe and "Les Misérables" in China and South Korea.
 Recently, Lockyer returned to his native Connecticut to play the role of Tom in "The Glass Menagerie" at the historical Ivoryton Playhouse.
 He is playing Jean Valjean in Les Misérables in the current national tour.
 Years before he played the role in a Hawaiian production of Les Misérables, which he directed himself.
 Played JVJ in Les Misérables in US 25th Anniversary Tour and in 2015 at Queen's Theatre on London's West End in UK.
The English Traveler is a seventeenth-century tragicomedy in five acts written by Thomas Heywood, and named as such by the playwright.
 First performed around the year 1627, the play witnessed its first printed edition in 1633.
 Consisting of two mostly self-contained, but thematically connected plots, one tragic and one comic, it trafficks in the elements of both city comedy and domestic tragedy.
 In the tragic plot, the recently returned traveler Young Geraldine contemplates forbidden love with the wife of his father's friend Wincott.
 In the comic plot, the rascal servant Reignald attempts an elaborate cover-up for Young Lionell's drunken party once his father returns from his mercantile voyages.
 Critics have recognized this as an important work of drama for its generic experimentation, for its investigation of the relationship between appearances and reality, and for its commentary on Renaissance households.
The Glass Menagerie is a five-character memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame.
 The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on Williams himself, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister Rose.
 In writing the play, Williams drew on an earlier short story, as well as a screenplay he had written under the title of "The Gentleman Caller".
The Seafarer is a 2006 play by Irish playwright Conor McPherson.
 It is set on Christmas Eve in Baldoyle, a coastal suburb north of Dublin city.
 The play centers on James "Sharky" Harkin, an alcoholic who has recently returned to live with his blind, aging brother, Richard Harkin.
 As Sharky attempts to stay off the bottle during the holidays, he contends with the hard-drinking, irascible Richard and his own haunted conscience.
 It was nominated for multiple Tony Awards as well as the Olivier Award and Evening Standard Award for Best Play.

Question: Question: Actor Peter Lockyer recently returned to his native Connecticut to play in a five-character memory play by what famous American playwright? 

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 The Syringa Tree is a deeply personal memory play of a childhood under apartheid.
 Written and often performed by Pamela Gien, and directed by Larry Moss, it has received excellent reviews in New York and across the USA as well as in London.
 Also very positively reviewed in Dublin, the play has received several awards. 

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 Memory play is a play in which a lead character narrates the events of the play, which are drawn from the character's memory.
 The term was coined by playwright Tennessee Williams, describing his work "The Glass Menagerie".
 In his production notes, Williams says, "Being a 'memory play', "The Glass Menagerie" can be presented with unusual freedom of convention."
 In a widening of the definition, it has been argued that Harold Pinter's plays "Old Times", "No Man's Land" and "Betrayal" are memory plays, where "memory becomes a weapon".
 Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa" is a late 20th-century example of the genre. 

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 Steve "Patch" Earl Johnson and Dr. Kayla Caroline Brady are a supercouple on the American soap opera "Days of Our Lives".
 Steve is portrayed by Stephen Nichols and Kayla is portrayed by Mary Beth Evans.
 On the Internet message boards[5] the couple is often referred to by the portmanteau "Stayla" (for Steve and Kayla).
 The couple was initially popular from 1986 through 1990 until the "death" of Steve.
 Both characters have recently returned: after Steve being presumed dead for 16 years, Steve returned to the show on June 9, 2006; Kayla returned on June 12, 2006.
 Steve and Kayla were dropped off canvas in February 2009.
 Kayla returned in December 2011.
 In August 2015, Steve returned to Salem. 

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 The Waverly Gallery is a play by Kenneth Lonergan.
 It is considered a "memory play".
 The show, first produced Off-Broadway in 2000, follows a grandson watching his grandmother slowly die from Alzheimer's disease.
 The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001. 

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 Peter Lockyer is an American actor and singer.
 He was born in Poughkeepsie, NY.
 As a child, he split his time between Toronto and Connecticut, and went to the same high school as actress Gretchen Mol.
 Lockyer has appeared in numerous productions, including "Miss Saigon" as Chris, "Les Misérables" as Marius, and "La Boheme" on Broadway.
 He has also appeared in a tour of "The Phantom of the Opera" and on TV with Bette Midler in a 1993 adaption of "".
 After a break in performing, during which he earned dual master's degrees, qualifying him to teach in New York City, Lockyer returned to acting for the European tour of Barbra Streisand's "Broadway Boys".
 He has also performed "42nd Street" in Europe and "Les Misérables" in China and South Korea.
 Recently, Lockyer returned to his native Connecticut to play the role of Tom in "The Glass Menagerie" at the historical Ivoryton Playhouse.
 He is playing Jean Valjean in Les Misérables in the current national tour.
 Years before he played the role in a Hawaiian production of Les Misérables, which he directed himself.
 Played JVJ in Les Misérables in US 25th Anniversary Tour and in 2015 at Queen's Theatre on London's West End in UK. 

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 The English Traveler is a seventeenth-century tragicomedy in five acts written by Thomas Heywood, and named as such by the playwright.
 First performed around the year 1627, the play witnessed its first printed edition in 1633.
 Consisting of two mostly self-contained, but thematically connected plots, one tragic and one comic, it trafficks in the elements of both city comedy and domestic tragedy.
 In the tragic plot, the recently returned traveler Young Geraldine contemplates forbidden love with the wife of his father's friend Wincott.
 In the comic plot, the rascal servant Reignald attempts an elaborate cover-up for Young Lionell's drunken party once his father returns from his mercantile voyages.
 Critics have recognized this as an important work of drama for its generic experimentation, for its investigation of the relationship between appearances and reality, and for its commentary on Renaissance households. 

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 The Glass Menagerie is a five-character memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame.
 The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on Williams himself, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister Rose.
 In writing the play, Williams drew on an earlier short story, as well as a screenplay he had written under the title of "The Gentleman Caller". 

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 The Seafarer is a 2006 play by Irish playwright Conor McPherson.
 It is set on Christmas Eve in Baldoyle, a coastal suburb north of Dublin city.
 The play centers on James "Sharky" Harkin, an alcoholic who has recently returned to live with his blind, aging brother, Richard Harkin.
 As Sharky attempts to stay off the bottle during the holidays, he contends with the hard-drinking, irascible Richard and his own haunted conscience.
 It was nominated for multiple Tony Awards as well as the Olivier Award and Evening Standard Award for Best Play. 

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Answer: Tennessee Williams