Sentences with phrase «name as a playwright»

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.

Not exact matches

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.»

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

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.

If you've seen the dark - comedy - with - a-streak-of-philosophy In Bruges, the name «McDonagh» may not be wholly unfamiliar to you, as that film brought Irish playwright and director Martin McDonagh to international attention.

Barnum also meets a playwright named Phillip Carlyle (Zac Efron), who he takes on as a partner.

Enter a buffoonish, basically illiterate actor named Shakespeare (Rafe Spall), who's game to be paid as a playwright, but would really prefer to act in the plays.

Along the way its colorful story takes in a host of characters, locations, and events, from the early Anglo - Saxon tribes; Alfred the Great's stubborn resistance to the Danes; the impact of the Norman invasion in 1066; the «arrival» of such masterpieces as Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales, not to mention a «coarse» playwright named William Shakespeare (who alone contributed 2,000 new words to the language!)

In the book's foreword, playwright Paul Rudnick identifies one of his favorite pieces as Rakoff's essay on Stuart Little, aptly titled «The Love That Dare Not Squeak Its Name.»

Ferrets were mentioned as early as 450 BCE by the Greek playwright, Aristophanes, who drew similarities between the Achaeans (one classical name for the Greeks) to ferrets in their abilities as thieves.

It started life as the location for the Camden Council Building and Library, which housed the purpose - built Shaw Theatre, named in honour of renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw.

Playwright and performer Will Power has been named to a new position as Artist - in - Residence in the Division of Theatre at Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts, beginning with the fall 2012 semester.

Malani also draws from literature as in her 1999 video installation, Hamletmachine, an adaptation of German playwright and director Heiner Müller's 1977 play of the same name which addressed the division of East and West Germany.