Harvey (play)
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Harvey is a 1944 play by the American playwright Mary Chase, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work in 1945. It has been adapted for film and television several times, most notably in
First edition 1953
Students perform Harvey at Cleveland High School in Tennessee
Púca
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The púca, puca, also pwca, pooka, pookah, phouka, and puck, is a creature of Celtic, English, and Channel Islands folklore. Considered to be bringers both of good and bad fortune, they could help or h
Harvey (play)
…is an affable man who claims to have an unseen (and presumably imaginary) friend Harvey – whom Elwood describes as a six foot, three-and-one-half inch pookah (Chase uses the spelling p-o-o-k-a as noted especially by the character Wilson who is reading the definition from a dictionary on page 33 of Chase's…
Elwood P. Dowd and the shadow of a púca, characters in the 1950 film Harvey