Sentences with phrase «as a playwright friend»

Like all origin stories, it would ultimately prove fictional, but it showed me what I love, what I want, and, as a playwright friend of mine likes to say, «what I want to want.»

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Mayor Kathy Sheehan: «He is best known as a novelist, but he's also an historian, a journalist, a critic, an essayist, a poet, a philosopher, a screenwriter, a playwright and a treasured friend and colleague to many.

Framed by a boisterous dinner scene between playwright friends, alarm bells ring early in Melinda and Melinda when conversation turns to whether a random scenario, the arrival of an unexpected stranger at a dinner party, would work best as the premise for tragic drama or comedy.

The youngest generation might know him as the lugubrious voice of Winnie - The - Pooh and friends in the BBC audio recordings from the 1990s; the next generation up are likely to know him as the playwright of The Madness of George III, or the more recent The History Boys (which won six Tonys including Best Play); and the generation above may admit to being old enough to have seen him perform with Dudley Moore, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller in Beyond The Fringe (see sidebar).

[35] The following year, friend and playwright Edward Albee wrote the play Occupant as a homage to the sculptor.