Sentences with word «dramatist»

A dramatist is a person who writes plays. They create stories and dialogue for actors to perform on stage or screen. Full definition
«Surges with an energy and visual verve that improve the play and enhance the themes of dramatist Peter Morgan's script.»
«As dramatists, the story that drew us was the public battle and her private battle,» he said.
Their response would deserve the Aristophanes line, «to be insulted by you is to be garlanded with lilies», were it not insulting in itself to mention the great dramatist in connection with this petty spectacle.
Still, for a brief window of opportunity, Shakespeare could put his fluency to work to create exactly the art that has made him the greatest dramatist of the human race.
For his fourth show at Regen, he has created a series of works inspired by the work of 20th century French dramatist Antonin Artaud.
Two other significant Modernist dramatists writing in the 1920s and 1930s were Bertolt Brecht and Federico García Lorca.
As we shall see in the chapter on commas, it was first used by Greek dramatists two thousand years ago to guide actors between breathing points — thus leading to the modern explanation of why a cat is not a comma:
It's a workout, but of the intellectual kind: part crime thriller and part meditation on poetry, with unexpected plot twists and references to famous figures as diverse as the French dramatist Antonin Artaud and Jay Leno.
Perhaps the biggest mystery is the producers» choice of a hero, an IRS agent, not a figure most dramatists would pick for his sympathetic qualities.
Aren't these master dramatists also low - key masters of suspense?
Simon Russell Beale is perfect as the 18th - century dramatist who turned being famous into an art form
One such critic is James Hansen, the NASA climate - scientist - turned - amateur - dramatist who suggests that future generations will find the GWPF «guilty of crimes against humanity and nature».
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.
From acclaimed author and television dramatist Peter May comes the first book in the Lewis Trilogy - a riveting mystery series set on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, a formidable and forbidding world where tradition rules and people adhere to ancient ways of life.
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.
Veteran theater producer Leslie Urdang was approached by colleagues Tom Hulce and Michael Mayer for advice in 2015 about doing a big screen version of the play The Seagull by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov.
Yet Three Billboards isn't as cut - and - dry as it first appears; it doesn't take long to realize that McDonagh, savvy dramatist that he is, has set out to do more than rally his audience around an underdog.
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.
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.»
In his work, Quaytman was an inventive dramatist with his palette who brought a sculptor's flair for form to the game of the shaped canvas.
The resulting film, This So - Called Disaster, is partly a study of the magic of theater, as well as a study of the fascinating Shepard, who is nearly universally considered one of the most influential American dramatists of the past century.
(Actually, Hecht and MacArthur had demanded too large a screenwriting fee, so Bartlett Cormack, a reporter turned dramatist, did the adaptation, and Charles Lederer, who would go on to write Howard Hawks's remake His Girl Friday, supplied additional dialogue.
The CS&A Drama and Theatre Teacher Placement Team works with teachers and dramatists at every career stage, from recent college graduates to individuals with decades of experiences to professional actors, producers, or playwrights looking to make a career change.
• 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.»
By the summer of 1989, under the charismatic leadership of the former prison inmate and dramatist Vaclav Havel, protests in the old part of Prague in Wenceslaus Square, increased in numbers and intensity.
and the solution is to buy a quality midfielder... funnily enough named from a french dramatist which our own french drama queen should have heard of... but the yoghurt man clams he is still active in the transfer market so can only wait and prey
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.
«I hope that the distinguished list of writers and dramatists calling upon the Ministry of Justice to change its mind will persuade ministers to make a U-turn,» Frances Crook, the chief executive of the Howard League for Penal reform, said.
Aregbesola said the late writer and dramatist contributed immensely to the promotion and advocacy of Yoruba Language and well as its culture.
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.
Often citied as one of America's most beloved dramatists, Horton Foote has shown an unmatched ability to capture the very essence of small - town life, a talent that has become the life - blood of his career since its earliest days.
The Night of Shooting Stars, from 1982, explores the moral imperatives of those living in an Italian village during the end of World War Two, while 1984's Kaos is an epic portmanteau feature collecting together four stories by famed dramatist, Luigi Pirandello.
What money can't buy, however, is where Coogler's skills as a moment - by - moment dramatist come in.
I'll go with one I think should have made the list, and maybe would have if its distributor weren't keeping it so tight to its chest: Quentin Tarantino's 70 mm Western The Hateful Eight, which is the most challenging movie he's made, and the one that really shows his gifts as a straightforward dramatist.
The hodge podge of production companies behind both movies decided not to move forward with out her but now, 15 years later, a different mix of production companies have recast the iconic adventurer with Alicia Vikander (in the first chapter of her conversion from creepy robot and period dramatist to action star) in hopes of fresh success emerging from the dormant cradle of life.
A slice of recent history gets Paul Greengrass» docu - dramatist sense of immediacy in this breathtaking oceanic bound thriller.
Then the British dramatist penned the 2013 hit play «Audience,»...
Genre maven Mark Gatiss and contemporary dramatist Stephen Moffat may appear to be an odd fit, but together they melded a new popular version of Sherlock Holmes that has resonated.
Michael Haneke, you are a devious, devious dramatist.
And yet dramatists still feel the urge.
Asif Kapadia, the skilled and subtle dramatist behind The Warrior and Far North, has here taken a detour from introspective fiction and turned his hand to documentary.
EC: Another reason was the main character: a serious dramatist, honest, politically engaged, and rather naive.
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