Sentences with phrase «from playwright»

Lines from playwright Robert Bolt's stirring script are frequently quoted in U.S. court opinions: «I know what's legal, not what's right.

One of three family tragedies from the playwright Sam Shepard and directed by Rob Weiner.

Similarly, all translation rights belong to the playwright or playwrights and any translation into languages other than that or those of the original play needs explicit written permission from the playwright or playwrights to be done, except in the case of ITI Philippines, as provided above.

WHILE WE»RE YOUNG Writer / Director: Noah Baumbach Starring: Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin When writer / director Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha, The Squid and the Whale) uses a quote from playwright Henrik Ibsen as the setup for his story, I knew right then and there this was going to be up my alley.

Cinematic Essential: What's the transition from playwright to filmmaker been like?

The story is from playwright Tracy Letts who won a Pulitzer for «August: Osage County» (a film version coming soon).

Director John Michael McDonagh takes a bit of gangster - film inspiration from his playwright / filmmaker brother Michael for Calvary, but uses this somewhat gimmicky premise to sit down with the citizenry of a sleepy Irish coastal town and find out what makes them tick.

«More canned misanthropy from playwright Neil LaBute, who poisoned arthouse cinemas in the late 1990's with toxic stunts like In The Company Of Men and Your Friends And Neighbors.

The long - awaited sophomore film from playwright Kenneth Lonergan («You Can Count On Me «-RRB- was like a big - screen adaptation of an imagined Great American Novel, sprawling and literate and humane and brilliant.

Colin Farrell appears in this black comedy crime - caper from playwright Mark O'Rowe and theatre director John Crowley.

Fences Rated PG - 13 for thematic elements, language and some suggestive references Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93 % Built off of the original Broadway production from playwright and screenwriter August Wilson, and starring basically the same cast, Fences tells the story of a black garbage collector in 1950s Pittsburgh (Denzel Washington) who boasts of the days he used to play ball in the Negro Leagues before the color barrier was broken, while his wife (Oscar - winner Viola Davis) and family struggle under his drinking, cheating and temper.

That the film skirted hagiography owes much to a notably expansive script from playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and an unsentimental clutch of performances from Sally Field, a feisty Tommy Lee Jones, and a deeply human Daniel Day - Lewis, an actor who at this point all but has the word Oscar scrawled in invisible ink across his forehead.

The seemingly random murder of a pizza delivery man sparks a sinister chain reaction in this drama from playwright David Hare, who was responsible for adapting The Hours and The Reader to critical acclaim.

It may take another viewing, for example, to figure out exactly where I land on Three Billboards Outside Of Ebbing, Missouri (Grade: B), the new flavorfully verbose drama from playwright - turned - filmmaker Martin McDonagh.

Playwright Anton Chekhov's oft - tread comedy of manners «The Seagull» may not instantly scream 2018 movie remake, but Broadway and film director Michael Mayer, with a strong assist from playwright - screenwriter Stephen Karam, has fashioned a new screen...

This time he works with a script from playwright Dennis Kelly to deliver a gritty, tense thriller that is lacking any traditional Hollywood fluff... it's a down and dirty look at greed, desperation and the survival instinct.

Hellman's play was «eerily prescient,» she mused in her acceptance speech, implicitly connecting the 20th - century work to Trump and the Women's March with a quote from the playwright: «There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it, and other people who stand around and watch them eat.»

This passage doesn't come wholly from the playwright's imagination — Karol Wotjyla was well - known for his outdoorsmanship.

When marriage is reduced to a contract for mutual economic advantage among any configuration of consenting adults, something essential in what Christians understand to be «marriage» is lost: something «deep - down - diving,» to borrow from the playwright Ibsen.

You could go and see an old favourite such as Footloose or experience a new and exciting play from playwrights around the world.

Not exact matches

And the French playwright Dorimon penned a version in which Juan treats his own father so callously that the old man dies from emotional shock, which may be how the element of parricide entered the standard narrative.

Then there was the constant demand for text from the company's playwright.

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....

That is, Shakespeare presents no overarching idea meant to serve as a soapbox from which the playwright can browbeat the audience with his convictions.

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.

From Presidents to writers, celebrities and royalty, the hotel has hosted the likes of the renowned Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, Charlie Chaplin and Charles de Gaulle.

The newest work from Chicago playwright Nambi E. Kelley, «Jabari Dreams of Freedom» at Chicago Children's Theatre has a strong message — but is delivered simply.

Evolved from a conversation between Evanston playwright Gloria Bond Cunie and CCT's Artistic Director Jacqueline Russell, the play takes themes from Michael Tyler's picture book for children, The Skin You Live In.

It's yet another superior piece of «faction» from acclaimed playwright James Graham, the author of This House, Privacy and a forthcoming election - night TV play, The Vote.

Wiesenfeld, a conservative Democrat who worked briefly for the Pataki administration, is a controversial figure who has engaged in some high - profile verbal battles over the years, including an effort to block the playwright Tony Kushner from receiving an honorary degree.

From April, the Almeida will be home to a new play by Sheffield - born playwright, Leo Butler.

The following scene reveals the first is from a play in which Charlotte and Max are performing — Charlotte is married to the playwright Henry (Ewan McGregor) and Max and his wife Annie (Maggie Gyllenhaal), also an actress, are close friends of the couple.

From The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe, by Dan Falk.

It is from this period that we find Cymbeline — and an even more tantalizing hint that the playwright may have been conscious of the new cosmology.

That last one is the same name as the place some little known playwright was from.

Visiting Shakespeare's Globe where you can quote a line or two from the most romantic playwright of all time to her because what older women would not simply swoon.

That's where the playwright resides) just freed from a military junta and its new democratic president announces the formation of a human rights commission to investigate that fascist regime's police methods of torture and its notorious death squads.

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.

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

Bateman does an effective job directing the movie, which is based on a novel by Kevin Wilson (with a script by playwright David Lindsay - Abaire), smartly opting for understatement from his performers, so that their characters» eccentricities have something to play against.

The real value of the documentary from Douglas McGrath lies in charting Nichols» creative trajectory from the staging and improvisation lessons learned with comedy partner Elaine May, through collaborations with playwright Neil Simon on «Barefoot in the Park» and «The Odd Couple,» and the director's first two feature films, both legendary — «Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?»

She was married to playwright Kirk Aanes from 1990 to 1993, but the two are now divorced.

Amiri Baraka (poet & playwright), supposedly a voice of consciousness, plays a homeless sage who keeps popping up from scene - to - scene, uttering this heavy stream of consciousness rap, «We need no more ghosts, we need a spirit.»

At the beginning of the movie, Jessica, a frustrated playwright, is living in «deepest Bushwick,» recovering from a breakup with Damon (Lakeith Stanfield), and attempting to get her work staged by any theater in New York that will consider it (every rejection letter gets taped neatly on her wall).

This bitter brew of English bile, adapted by playwright Patrick Marber from Zoe Heller's acclaimed novel, What Was She Thinking?

Margaret (Fox), the second feature from director / screenwriter / playwright Kenneth Lonergan (following «You Can Count On Me»), was shot in 2005 and caught in a kind of limbo for six years.

Moonlighting playwright Martin McDonagh quickly yanked a trapdoor on his gallows humor — jerking from wry cringe comedy to a surreal congregation of blinded skinheads, fat Americans and midgets on drug benders before a violent, solemn climactic parable about purgatory.

Paul Giovanni — «The Wicker Man» (1973) From «Witchfinder General» to «A Field In England,» pastoral horror has been a particularly British concern, one that reached its perfect form with Robin Hardy's bizarrely terrifying 1973 cult hit «The Wicker Man» and its folk soundtrack by American playwright and director Paul Giovanni.

Throughout, there's fine support from Tom Hollander as a passive - aggressive playwright, Richard Cordery as a lovably dithering uncle and Lydia Wilson as Tim's eccentric, volatile sister.

Girl Most Likely (PG - 13 for sexuality and profanity) Dysfunctional family comedy about a suicidal, struggling playwright (Kristen Wiig) who moves back to Jersey from Manhattan to live with her gambling - addicted, ex go - go dancer mother (Annette Bening).