Sentences with phrase «as the playwright of»

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.

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).

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..

Shakespeare, as a playwright, is not a competitor with the drama of the play.

In speaking of «recent scholars who have used the new scholarship,» Miola kindly mentions my name as a «Jesuit who detects Jesuit influence on the playwright in The Catholicism of Shakespeare's Plays (1997) and other works.»

Yet all fiction writers (and playwrights and filmmakers, for that matter) must make similar imaginative leaps, and will be judged — as Styron has been judged — by how convincingly they portray the characters whose points of view they've done their best to assume.

If it is true, as the playwright William Saroyan once wrote, that the best part of a man «stays forever,» Warren Zevon's music will live on.

Striking a more literary note from Egypt, poet and playwright Ali Salem wrote after 9/11 an open letter of apology to Americans: «Extremism may claim God as its redeemer, but it's really the selfish product of lunacy....

Homosexual activists like the playwright Larry Kramer and the writer Gabriel Rotello, author of Sexual Ecology — an important weaving together of ecology theory, epidemiology, and sexual politics — have been ferociously attacked by their fellow gay activists for publicly acknowledging that AIDS results as much from human behaviors as from specific microbes.

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

JH: As journalists our job is to see things through the public's eyes but as playwrights we could go over to the other side and get into the minds of the MPAs journalists our job is to see things through the public's eyes but as playwrights we could go over to the other side and get into the minds of the MPas playwrights we could go over to the other side and get into the minds of the MPs.

The TV drama is the next big project for the prolific playwright behind modern political favourites such as This House, Ink and Labour of Love.

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.

After more research, the playwright found that a number of today's far - right groups were using a language of diversity to broaden their appeal — even while their underlying messages remained as extremist as ever.

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 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.»

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.

Weiss's sister, playwright Sybille Pearson, confirms that Weiss spent as much time as possible out of the unhappy home.

I started my creative life as a young playwright, won a couple of play contests, and then was sucked into the «glamor» and crazy money of...

Jealous TV producer unmasked as «second killer» of Sixties playwright Joe Orton after «bullying his lover into battering him to death with a hammer» Architecture tours by local architects around the world.

2018-04-08 12:56 Jealous TV producer unmasked as «second killer» of Sixties playwright Joe Orton after «bullying his lover into battering him to death with a hammer» Architecture tours by local architects around the world.

Novelist, poet and playwright Kevin Craig, long known as KTC on Absolute Write, set some time aside for an interview, just days after release of his sixth

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.

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.

With Doris Kearns Goodwin's Obama - endorsed biography Team Of Rivals as his font, playwright Tony Kushner fashioned a 550 - page script of Lincoln's political life, only for his director to lop off the last 80 pages and narrow his aiOf Rivals as his font, playwright Tony Kushner fashioned a 550 - page script of Lincoln's political life, only for his director to lop off the last 80 pages and narrow his aiof Lincoln's political life, only for his director to lop off the last 80 pages and narrow his aim.

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.

Collaborating with novelist and playwright Christine Angot, Denis initially approached the project as a potential adaptation of Roland Barthes» volume «A Lover's Discourse: Fragments.»

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.

Romance and politics, as it turns out, have a lot to do with each other, especially if you're a British playwright at the top of his game.

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

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).

Irish writer / director Martin McDonagh has made a name as a playwright and filmmaker through comedies of crime and consequence that dare audiences to consider heavy themes amidst dark tones and cruel twists.

The script is a mishmash of political intrigue under Elizabeth and the secret life of Edward as the nation's great playwright.

Under Pam MacKinnon's ruthlessly incisive direction, Tracy Letts and Amy Morton — playwright and star of the celebrated «August: Osage County» — reunite as a particularly well - matched George and Martha, whose epic battles are as dangerous as their need for each other is palpable.

As a character study it's near masterful, and as an examination of one brand of small town America you could never tell that it was written by an Irish - British playwright (and multiple Tony award nominee and Olivier winnerAs a character study it's near masterful, and as an examination of one brand of small town America you could never tell that it was written by an Irish - British playwright (and multiple Tony award nominee and Olivier winneras an examination of one brand of small town America you could never tell that it was written by an Irish - British playwright (and multiple Tony award nominee and Olivier winner).

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.

One is a famous, published author, Boris Trigorin (Corey Stoll), as well as her son, Konstantin (Billy Howle), who fancies himself a «new» kind of playwright.

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.

Christopher Reeve (Superman, The Remains of the Day) stars as playwright Richard Collier, who is visited as a college student by a strange old woman telling him to come back to her, giving him an antique time piece.

Indeed, it does feel less like the work of a vastly experienced filmmaker and more like the first draft of a novice playwright such as Mickey himself.

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 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.

The great American playwright August Wilson (1945 - 2005) may no longer be physically of this world, but his work, which discusses issues of race and family, among other topics, very much lives on, as relevant as ever.