Sentences with phrase «as a playwright in»

After a successful run as a playwright in New York in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Sturges moved to Hollywood, where Paramount paid him a lavish $ 2,500 per week.

The film stars Julianne Moore as a high school English teacher whose life takes a turn when a former star student returns after failing as a playwright in New York City.

The English Teacher (Unrated) Julianne Moore handles the titular role as a spinster with a pair of Siamese cats whose life is disrupted by the return to town of a former student (Michael Angarano) after failing as a playwright in the Big Apple.

Also nominated were Julie Harris, recreating her stage role as the young girl in The Member of the Wedding; Bette Davis, again playing a fading actress in The Star; Joan Crawford with her final nomination as a playwright in Sudden Fear; and Susan Hayward in the biopic of World War II entertainer Jane Froman, With a Song in My Heart.

The conference gathered academics and educators from around the world to discuss new ideas in literary and historical research around Shakespeare, as well as new strategies for teaching and learning of Shakespeare with a focus on his relevance as a playwright in secondary schooling.

Not exact matches

Plays are play, as Walter Ong observes, except for the playwright and perhaps some of the paying public.5 Moreover, while most would say that tennis and drama provide at least the occasion for play (even if some tennis players, for example, are not actually «playing»), the list of possible play activities is much broader than we often imagine, including much of life - more, in any case, than just tennis, reading, dancing, etc..

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As a playwright, Shakespeare responds in any given work to many immediate literary, economic, cultural, and theatrical exigencies that have nothing to do with his personal beliefs.

The grid of paradoxes continues to unfold in Eastern Europe as the playwright of the absurd seeks to guide a nation in making sense out of the suffering of the past and an unknown future.

Some playwrights went so far as to rescind the sentence in the final moments.

Playwright Athol Fugard manages to write and produce his plays in South Africa as well as in London and New York, but he claims that he must use caution.

Everything in Shakespeare's plays» not to mention his profession as playwright» suggests that he was not fond of Puritans.

As is often the way with brainy, moody teenagers, I had come to believe in the gospel according to Jack Kerouac, Dizzy Gillespie, and a hodgepodge of Japanese poets, absurdist playwrights, and existentialist philosophers whose works I'd found on adjacent shelves on the second floor of the public library.

I idealized my marriage as, in the words of playwright Robert Anderson, «a picnic without mosquitoes» («Notes of a Survivor» in The Patient, Death and the Family, edited by Stanley B. Troup and William A. Greene [Scribner's, 1974], p. 82).

The stage directions indicate the time of the play as «Not too long ago,» and the playwrights» note — always included in any production's program — declares ominously, «It might have been yesterday.

This fallacy is widespread in Shakespeare studies, true enough, but the business of wrenching passages out of dramatic context as evidence of the playwright's personal beliefs usually reveals more about the critic than about Shakespeare.

The health - giving importance of drama in the Waldorf grade school and the role of the class teacher as playwright, director, and producer

It began as a coffee in ITN with a playwright three years ago, and is now a multi-million dollar budget picture.

The eastern DRC has alternately been described as «the worst place in the world for women» by The Guardian and «hell» by American feminist playwright Eve Ensler.

[198] In addition to novels, other literature arts such as Ghanaian theatre and poetry have also had a very good development and support at the national level with prominent Ghanaian playwrights and poets Joe de Graft and Efua Sutherland.

Based on Clark's own experience of the Southall riots, which caused a political awakening in the playwright, the three separate flats» occupants - Ruth; Dennis and Anna; Wendy and Malcolm (and Linda)- are propelled forwards with a sense of inevitability as their personal relationships become increasingly strained.

Dr. Dakuku Peterside, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State in the April election has described foremost environmentalist, playwright and human rights activist, Ken Saro - Wiwa as a great Nigerian who lived and died for a worthy cause.

Like Maisano and Pitcher, Usher sees the Jupiter scene in Cymbeline as a response to Galileo's discovery — but he takes «Shakespearian science» much further, arguing that examples of the playwright's scientific knowledge can be found in works spanning his entire career.

Born in New Jersey With a successful career as playwright, composer and motivational trainer internationally, has lived in California and Hawaii for the past 22 years!

Marivaux's stories — at least in my mind — never really arise as more than a mere trifle, making them pale in comparison to the works of other classic playwrights like Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Molière.

British actor / playwright Allan Jeayes made his first screen appearance as the cuckolded Sir William Hamilton in the 1918 historical drama Nelson.

As fate (or playwright Noel Coward) would have it, they happen to end up spending their honeymoons in adjoining suites.

The son of an amateur playwright, he sang professionally as a boy and later acted in his father's adaptations of Thomas Hardy's novels.

Though subsequent performances in Better Than Sex (2000) and Russian Doll (2001) earned Wenham even more critical acclaim overseas, it was his role as a transvestite playwright in director Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge that gave the rising star his first true taste of international success.

Apart from Padilha, 7 Days in Entebbe has promising credentials: a strong cast headed by Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike as the German radicals who prove out of their depth running the hijack mission with two Palestinians, and a script by Black Watch playwright Gregory Burke, who also scored a notable Berlin hit in 2014 as writer of the super-tense Northern Ireland drama» 71.

Written by playwright Bill Bozzone, Full Moon in Blue Water stars Gene Hackman as Floyd, the owner of a small bar in a coastal Texas town.

Krasinski graduated from Newton South High School in 1997 and from Brown University in 2002 as an honors playwright.

The screenwriter / playwrights have processed the characters» last words in ways that imbue them with as much humanity as possible.

Though Strouse reportedly based his screenplay on his own difficulties making a name for himself as a playwright early in his career, the film's look into the life of struggling artist Jessica James (Jessica Williams) feels familiar at best.

Playwright Terence McNally is probably best - known for Corpus Christie — his controversial stage drama about Jesus and his apostles as gay men in contemporary Texas.

John Turturro stars as the tortured playwright trying to maintain his lofty stance in a cut - rate commercialized world.

The first occurs in 1972, as the novice playwright celebrates opening night to the applause of the critics promising him a successful future.

As a playwright (Red / Rouge), Laura Anne Harris has addressed sex work in her plays, which has made her interviews with filmmakers addressing the topic particularly fruitful.

Writer / director Martin McDonagh - making his debut here - has infused the majority of In Bruges with a deliberately - paced, overly talky sensibility that undoubtedly reflects his background as a playwright, and it's certainly difficult not to admire the fervor with which both Farrell and Gleeson tackle their respective characters and the film's ample dialogue (the actors» heavy accents does make it difficult to make out every word, admittedly).

In 1946 she returned to the theatre, this time as a playwright.

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.

In Wonder Wheel, four peoples» lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny's rough - hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty's long - estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father's apartmenIn Wonder Wheel, four peoples» lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny's rough - hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty's long - estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father's apartmenin the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny's rough - hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty's long - estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father's apartmenin a clam house; Humpty, Ginny's rough - hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty's long - estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father's apartment.

Wisely, Allen doesn't cast himself in the lead role of the neurotic playwright, and he doesn't ask Cusack to mimic his mannerisms to the point where he's doing an all - out Allen imitation, as he has other lead actors in films where he doesn't star.

Director Joe Wright imagines the world of Imperial Russia in the 1870s as theater — both the art and the physical space (That the screenplay is written by the playwright Tom Stoppard might have something to do with this).

Gaspard Ulliel takes the lead as Louis, a gay playwright returning home for the first time in twelve years to announce his imminent death.

A late cameo by Robert Wagner as a foul - mouthed pimp comes off with the same impact that a bigoted Betty White comes off with in Bringing Down the House (sour, unfunny, sad); the rest of it plays like an over-priced community theatre production of a homegrown playwright's first script.

He is back at the A. R. T. as playwright and star in a furry, floppy - eared hat, a bemused expression, and a whale of a performance in NICE FISH.

Also in attendance were the stars of the play Billy Carter, Johnny Flynn, Mark Addy, Reece Shearsmith, Gaby French and Sally Rogers, as well as playwright Martin McDonagh, director Matthew Dunster and managing director Jeffory Lawson.

While this can mess with people's anxieties and expectations; the most important thing is that Ullmann is back, directing an adaptation of masterpiece Swedish play Miss Julie by August Strindberg, a playwright regarded as something of a demigod in Scandinavian culture.

The story of Riggan Thomson's (Michael Keaton) effort to be taken seriously as an actor / director / playwright after having starred in three superhero movies twenty years ago — Birdman is directed as a continuous shot (which is difficult because the film takes place over a considerably longer period that its two - hour running time).