Sentences with phrase «as dramatists»

«As dramatists, the story that drew us was the public battle and her private battle,» he said.

Novels became Davies» metier only after success eluded him as a dramatist; in its focus on the theater Happy Alchemy is a return to his first love.

The clear recognition of this fact is one of the elements in Shakespeare's greatness as a dramatist.

But it treats suffering as a living, breathing entity, not just as a dramatist's tool or a means of punishing an audience.

While The Guard allowed Gleeson a chance to flex his comedic muscles playing a racist, half - witted police officer with a semi-solid set of morals, Calvary gives him ample room to breathe as a dramatist.

Just one year before William Friedkin broke through with The French Connection in 1971, he showcased his skills as a dramatist of immense verve with a screen adaptation of Mart Crowley's off - Broadway hit, The Boys In The Band.

Seeing the reaction to this character — someone who's doing stuff that you haven't seen a woman do for a long time, if at all, who's not trying to placate an audience or ask any favors — that's exciting to write as a dramatist.»

Not exact matches

In these books it is fascinating to see the dramatist as no weak - kneed supporter of the Protestant establishment, which is still the policy of today's Stratford «establishment,» but an inspired dissenter, in the Catholic sense of «dissent.»

Rather, religious dramatists in this movement respected the integrity of the dramatic form as the kind of union between action and word that Protestants claimed in their theologies of Word and worship.

• The eighteenth - century French writer and dramatist Nicolas Chamfort wrote: «Nearly all people live in slavery for the reason the Spartans gave us as the cause of the slavery of the Persians: they are not able to utter the syllable «no.»

For example, though poets and dramatists were possible before 1564, Shakespeare (as a sequence of actual states) was not among the possibilities.

As the famous Elizabethan historian A. L. Rowse rightly points out, «We know more about him than about any other dramatist of the time, with the exception of Ben Jonson, who lived rather later and had a longer life.»

As for his own prejudiced agenda, it is summed up with the banal «cautionary aphorism» with which he concludes his review: «Dante was a Catholic; Milton was a Protestant; Shakespeare was a dramatist.»

Graham — who is just 32 but has already become one of our foremost political dramatists — specialises in meticulous research, a factor that has cemented his reputation among audiences inside as well as outside Westminster.

Aregbesola said the late writer and dramatist contributed immensely to the promotion and advocacy of Yoruba Language and well as its culture.

Over millennia, as natural selection bolstered our unconscious anthropomorphic tendencies, they reached beyond specific objects and events to encompass all of nature, goes Guthrie's theory, until we persuaded ourselves that «the entire world of our experience is merely a show staged by some master dramatist.»

Not as insightful as «Topsy - Turvy» or «Vanya on 42nd Street» about the process of putting on a show, it's nonetheless a fascinating meeting of the minds — between iconic New York indie filmmaker Michael Almereyda and laconic American cowboy and dramatist Shepard.

What money can't buy, however, is where Coogler's skills as a moment - by - moment dramatist come in.

That dynamic may be familiar, but Finley's unsettling, slow - burn debut has a voice and feel all its own — like Emily Post with fangs — heralding this dark - minded dramatist as a talent to watch.

So please, voters, resist the urge to hand Damien Chazelle this particular award and go instead with the flavorful dialogue and novelistic texture of Hell Or High Water; the rich characterizations of 20th Century Women; the world - building and deadpan hilarity of The Lobster; or the all - of - the - above of Manchester By The Sea, which confirms Lonergan as one of the great dramatists working in movies today.

The legality of Lincoln's situation was complicated, a hard thing to explain onscreen, and Spielberg was wise to tap a Pulitzer Prize - winning dramatist as his screenwriter instead of some Hollywood hack.

The irony is that Nicholls» background as a television dramatist shines through the novel's comic set pieces, and yet these set pieces — the most visual, cinematic parts of the book — keep falling by the wayside in the film's dash through the decades.

As the country's best dramatists, performers and theatremakers gather for a Guardian photoshoot, we ask them what they made of the last year in stage

In Wonder Wheel's first shots, the camera drifts past bathers in 1950s swimwear and finds Mickey's face, as he warns us that what we're about to see may not be entirely based in reality: «As a poet, I use symbols, and as a budding dramatist, I relish melodrama and larger - than - life characters.&raquas he warns us that what we're about to see may not be entirely based in reality: «As a poet, I use symbols, and as a budding dramatist, I relish melodrama and larger - than - life characters.&raquAs a poet, I use symbols, and as a budding dramatist, I relish melodrama and larger - than - life characters.&raquas a budding dramatist, I relish melodrama and larger - than - life characters.»

However, even as a respected poet and playwright before his death, his reputation as the world's first dramatist and the grandfather of modern theater came posthumously.

Set in 1950, which doesn't stop one character from catching the 1933 movie «Flying Down to Rio» at the local bijou, Woody Allen's «Wonder Wheel» is narrated by a budding dramatist working as a Coney Island lifeguard.

Ullmann's experience as protégé to the cinema's most profound dramatist, and a talented cast (Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton) raised early hopes she could find a fresh take on playwright August Strindberg's canonical 1888 play about the tortured relationship between a spoiled heiress and her family valet.

Yet Three Billboards isn't as cut - and - dry as it first appears; it doesn't take long to realize that [Martin] McDonagh, savvy dramatist that he is, has set out to do more than rally his audience around an underdog.

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 — 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.

A penetrating social observer and master dramatist, Mistry evokes laughter and tears as he tells the complex story of septuagenarian widower Nariman and his descendants.

John Heywood was a 16th century English dramatist employed at the courts of first Henvry VIII and then Queen Mary, as a singer, musician and playwright.

Members of MWA include most major writers of crime fiction and non-fiction, as well as screenwriters, dramatists, editors, publishers, and other professionals in the field.

They looked back to Swedish playwright August Strindberg and German actor and dramatist Frank Wedekind as precursors of their dramaturgical experiments.

Work by Miles Aldridge features as part of an exhibition at Reading Museum celebrating the Irish writer and dramatist Oscar Wilde.

Dr. Michael McMillan is a writer, dramatist, artist / curator and scholar of Vincentian migrant parentage whose recent play includes: a new translation of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan (Trenchtown)(MAT tour 2010 & 2012) and curatorial work includes: My Hair: Black Hair Culture, Style & Politics (Origins of the Afro Comb, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology 2013), I Miss My Mum's Cooking (Who More Sci - Fi Than Us, KAdE Kunsthal, Amersfoort, Netherlands 2012), The Waiting Room (Stories & Journeys, Gwynedd Museum & Art Gallery, Bangor, North Wales 2012), The Beauty Shop (198 Contemporary Arts & Learning 2008), The West Indian Front Room (Geffrye Museum 2005 - 06), The Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics in the Home (Black Dog Publishing 2009) www.thefrontroom.org.uk / He has an Arts Doctorate from Middlesex University 2010 and is currently an Associate Lecturer in Cultural & Historical Studies as well as Associate Researcher RAS project at London CSM / Wimbledon CSM, UAL.

Dr. Michael McMillan is a writer, dramatist, artist / curator and scholar of Vincentian migrant parentage whose recent play includes: a new translation of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan (Trenchtown)(MAT tour 2010 & 2012) and curatorial work includes: My Hair: Black Hair Culture, Style & Politics (Origins of the Afro Comb, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology 2013), I Miss My Mum's Cooking (Who More Sci - Fi Than Us, KAdE Kunsthal, Amersfoort, Netherlands 2012), The Waiting Room (Stories & Journeys, Gwynedd Museum & Art Gallery, Bangor, North Wales 2012), The Beauty Shop (198 Contemporary Arts & Learning 2008), The West Indian Front Room (Geffrye Museum 2005 - 06), The Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics in the Home (Black Dog Publishing 2009) www.thefrontroom.org.uk / He has an Arts Doctorate from Middlesex Univ. 2010 and is currently an Associate Lecturer in Cultural & Historical Studies as well as Associate Researcher RAS project at London CSM / Wimbledon CSM, UAL.