Thunder Rock

Thunder Rock may refer to:

Thunder Rock (play)

Thunder Rock is a 1939 play by Robert Ardrey.

The initial Broadway production, put on by the Group Theater and directed by Elia Kazan, closed after a short run, but the play was far more successful in wartime London. Thunder Rock became a symbol of British resistance and was the most notable play of World War II. It was first produced in a little-known theater in South Kensington but was transferred, with secret funding from Her Majesty's Treasury, to the Globe Theatre in London's West End.

Thunder Rock has seen many adaptions, including a BBC radio version in 1940 and a 1942 film starring Michael Redgrave and James Mason. In 1947 CBS broadcast a radio production; it was awarded a Peabody Award. Stage productions have been mounted all over the world, including a pirate production in Zurich, a U.S. government-sponsored production in occupied Berlin, and popular post-war productions throughout Europe and Africa, including in Harare and Nairobi.

Synopsis

The Dramatists Play Service gives the following synopsis of Thunder Rock:

Thunder Rock (film)

Thunder Rock is a 1942 British drama film based on Robert Ardrey's 1939 play of the same name. It was directed by Roy Boulting, and starred Michael Redgrave and Barbara Mullen, with James Mason and Lilli Palmer in supporting roles.

Background

The film is based on the 1939 play Thunder Rock by Robert Ardrey, which had originally been a notable stage flop in New York, but proved to be considerably more successful in London where it ran for months in the West End. The film version was opened out considerably from its source by the addition of a montage sequence to illustrate the protagonist Charleston's back-story, and flashback sequences detailing the histories of the various characters in Charleston's imagination, in the process serving to give a heightened propagandist tone to the material.

Critical opinion of the time in Britain was divided as to whether the additional material brought new depths to the story, or made too explicit things which Ardrey had preferred to leave to the audience's imagination and intelligence. The film was however almost universally admired by North American critics and became a huge popular success. Ironically, it ran to packed houses in New York for over three months, where the play had folded in less than three weeks.

Rock Champions

Rock Champions may refer to:

See also

Rock Champions (April Wine album)

Rock Champions is a compilation album by Canadian rock band April Wine, released in 2000.

Track listing

All tracks written by Myles Goodwyn unless otherwise noted.

Personnel

Rock Champions (Great White album)

Rock Champions is a compilation album released by the American hard rock band Great White in 2000.

Track listing

Tracks #13 is listed as "Marliese", but is actually their cover of Led Zeppelin's "Rock 'N Roll" from the Recovery: Live! album.

References