What was the nationality of the playwright who wrote the one-act theatrical sketch Rough for Theatre I?
Irish
Rough for Theatre I
Rough for Theatre I is a one-act theatrical sketch by Samuel Beckett.
 Also known simply as Theatre I it began life originally in French in the late fifties as Fragment de théâtre and was later translated into English by Beckett himself.
 The first production was at the Schiller Theatre, Hamburg in 1979, directed by Walter Asmus.
 It was staged as Fragment for Theater I at the Magic Theater, San Francisco in September 1986 by Stan Gontarski with Robert Wagner (A) and Tom Luce (B).
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett ( ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French.
Will Hay
William Thomson Hay (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian, actor, author, film director and amateur astronomer who came to notice for his theatrical sketch as a jocular schoolmaster, known as Dr. Muffin.
 The acts in which Hay performed the schoolmaster sketch became known as "The Fourth Form at St. Michael's".
 Hay toured with act and appeared in America, Canada, Australia and South Africa.
 From 1934 to 1943, he was a prolific film star in Britain, and was ranked the third highest grossing star at the British Box Office in 1938, behind George Formby and Gracie Fields. Inconsequential Tales
Inconsequential Tales is a collection of horror stories by Ramsey Campbell, published by Hippocampus Press in 2008.
 It contains an introduction by the author, "Truth or Consequences"; a theatrical sketch, "A Play for the Jaded" (1994); and the following stories: Phase 3 Productions
Phase 3 Productions is a Pittsburgh-based theatre company.
 Established in 2008, the theatre's mission is to include "relevant social awareness in everything produced."
 The company has produced theatrical classics like August Strindberg's "Miss Julie", as well as contemporary plays like Aaron Carter's "Swamp Baby", Bernard-Marie Koltès's "Roberto Zucco", and musicals like "Godspell".
 Phase 3 has also held productions in a variety of spaces, such as the Brew House on the South Side and South Park Theatre in South Park Township.
 The company has also produced original one-act plays in conjunction with the Pittsburgh New Works Festival. Spreading the News
Spreading the News is a short one-act comic play by Lady Gregory, which she wrote for the opening night of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, 27 Dec. 1904.
 It was performed as part of a triple bill alongside William Butler Yeats's "On Baile's Strand" and a revival of the Yeats and Gregory collaborative one-act "Cathleen Ni Houlihan" (1902).
 Audiences may have dozed through Yeats's play, but "Spreading the News" was very successful and it is still acted at the Abbey Theatre as late as 1961.
 Lady Gregory remarked after seeing an early performance of the play that "the audience would laugh so much at 'Spreading the News' that they lost about half the dialogue.
 I mustn't be so amusing again!" Babette Hughes
Babette Hughes (1906–1982) was an American playwright of one-act plays and mystery novelist.
 She was born in Seattle, Washington and while an English student at the University of Washington she met the American playwright Glenn Hughes who she married in 1924 for around 20 years.
 Hughes wrote comedic one-act plays, mysteries, and non-fiction works. More Cowbell
"More Cowbell" is a comedy sketch that aired on "Saturday Night Live" on April 8, 2000.
 The sketch is presented as an episode of VH1's documentary series "Behind the Music" that fictionalizes the recording of the song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult.
 The sketch featured guest host Christopher Walken as music producer ""The" Bruce Dickinson," and regular cast member Will Ferrell, who wrote the sketch with playwright Donnell Campbell, as fictional cowbell player Gene Frenkle, whose overzealous playing annoys his bandmates but pleases producer Dickinson.
 The sketch also starred Chris Parnell as Eric Bloom, Jimmy Fallon as Albert Bouchard, Chris Kattan as Buck Dharma and Horatio Sanz as Joe Bouchard. The Buffet (play)
The Buffet (Arabic: البوفيه Il-Bufayh) is a 1968 one-act play by Ali Salem which is widely regarded as a classic of modern Egyptian theatre.
 The Buffet was written in 1967, first performed at the Hakim Theatre in Cairo in March 1968, published in Arabic in 1969, and in English translation in 1973 by John Waterbury.
 The term al-Būfīh in Arabic refers to an office canteen or snack bar, although the play is set not down in the canteen, but upstairs in the office of the theatre manager.
 The cast requires only three actors: a theatre manager in an unnamed Kafkaesque authoritarian state, a playwright trying to get his play produced, and the waiter who brings food up from the buffet below.
 These characters symbolize the human contract between the powerful (the manager) and the powerless (the playwright) and the waiter (brute force). John Maddison Morton
John Maddison Morton (3 January 1811 – 19 December 1891) was an English playwright who specialised in one-act farces. His most famous farce was "Box and Cox" (1847).
 He also wrote comic dramas, pantomimes and other theatrical pieces.