Sentences with phrase «much as playwright»

In many ways, Chicago - based artist Kerry James Marshall -LRB-»78 Fine Arts) has depicted the African American experience on canvas much as playwright August Wilson chronicled it for the theater.

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..

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.

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.

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

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.

All together this fifth film directed by one of America's most prolific playwrights is as much a joy to watch as it is to hear.

No surprise that screenwriter Brian Nelson started out as a playwright — Hard Candy is not so much small - scale as it is proscenium - bound.

He gives one of his best performances as A. A. Milne, an author and playwright troubled by his memories of World War I. Much to the frustration of his wife Daphne (Margot Robbie), Milne wants to write a book about the horrors of war, but can't quite find the words.

No other film on the list inspired such low expectations from me before viewing it, but celebrated Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has kick - started the played - out Brit gangster genre with a dose of existential neurosis, refreshingly languid pacing and ream upon ream of rapid - fire, ferociously literary dialogue that credits its audience with as much intelligence as its audience.

In five years I want to be living permanently in Sydney, Australia, or in London in the UK and raising my son in either of those places, enjoying the rewards from my labor as an author, director, playwright, businesswoman, and inventor with as much seclusion as possible.