Laughing Boy with a Flute Laughing Boy with a Flute Laughing boy with a flute is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1626 and now in the Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin. The painting shows a boy with a flute with his head at an angle facing the viewer. In his 1910 catalog of Frans Hals works Hofstede de Groot wrote: "32. A LAUGHING BOY WITH A FLUTE. B. 118 ; M. 230. Half-length ; life size, almost in full face. The line of the shoulders rises to the left. The head is also almost in full face, but slightly
Women Laughing Women Laughing Women Laughing is a stage play written by Michael Wall in 1989. It was first produced for the stage in 1992, just after the author’s death. The original version of the play, which was for radio, contained only one act. A second was added for the stage production. "Women Laughing" has been performed at the Royal Exchange Manchester, the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, the Palace Theatre Watford and was toured in 2000 by Not The National Theatre. While the husbands stand outside on the terrace, drinking and boasting; their wives are inside talking about those husbands (and laughing).