Sentences with phrase «one act play»

While many touring acts playing Los Angeles stayed a short distance east at the Hyatt House — aka the Riot House — more established artists decamped to the Sunset Marquis.

It was a one - act play and I can't remember it for the life of me but it was supposed to be a comedy and it was funny, I'm afraid in all the wrong places.

The department was the only area school to compete in the UIL One Act Play 5A Conference.

This way of reading Scripture sees the Bible as the first 3 Acts of a 5 Act play.

Often there is healing in these people as beautifully illustrated in Thornton Wilder's one act play, The Angel That Troubled the Waters, based on the biblical story of John 5:1 - 4.

MacLeish began it in 1953 as a one - act drama for BBC production, but by 1956 the still unfinished J. B. had already undergone three drafts to become a three - act play with acted prologue.

Taking once again the picture of a five act play, it is as if we are the actors on the stage, and the Holy Spirit is in the wings, whispering our lines to us and telling us where to go.

In his three - act play Toussaint Louverture, performed in 1936 with Paul Robeson in the starring role, James outrageously has him die with the cry on his lips, «Oh, Dessalines!

In a way, the 24th chapter of Matthew's Gospel reads like a three - act play about the end time.

Hamilton used a self - interview, one - act plays.

It's like writing a lengthy essay or term paper, or a one - act play and then polishing, practicing it, and performing it — every week!

Scripture is like the first three acts in a four - act play, and we are the actors in the fourth act, for which there is no script.

Thomas Reid, the Scottish philosopher of common sense, turns out to be the crucial character for understanding this aspect of the four - act play.

With the Mets, though, making the obvious decision was a three - act play.

The capers of Robin and his merry men are featured in two one - act plays with the College's Chamber Singers as King John's Court singing the madrigals.

Neither he nor the reader knows how the coalition will end in May 2015, making this exercise rather like a theatre critic writing about an unfinished four - act play that he has only read and seen after just two acts and the intermission.

Tory Boyz is a one act play of subtlety, brilliance even, whose social observation and sense of political history transfixes the audience from start to finish.

The NY Safe Act played a big role that is acknowledged by me, but what really sickened people was her support of NARAL's push to force the Abortion Provision legislation through, even at the cost of keeping Speaker Silver in power.

I fear we are still only in act three of a five - act play.

Balancing act Playing complex games involves juggling multiple objectives, choosing what to prioritize and what to defer.

Cardin asked whether there were any safe levels of lead that could be taken into the human body and what role Pruitt believed the Clean Air and Water Act played in regulating lead.

In her free time, she loves to read and write theater: she was the O'Neill Theatre Conference finalist and winner of the Actor's Studio One Act Play competition.

Both local and national acts play in the city every night so finding a concert to see is easy (regardless of your music vibe — indie, soul, country, folk, etc).

I was in every all school play and one act play since 6th grade.

Toronto hosts comedy shows — it's home to world - famous comedy troupe Second City — poetry slams, concerts, touring Broadway shows, operas, one - act plays, seminars, festivals and galas on a weekly basis.

Last Summer is a difficult album to describe because it's made up entirely of these kinds of small moments, gliding gracefully from memory to memory, place to place, like an inside joke stretched into a one - act play.

By the time she tearfully gets to «no more anything, nothing, nothing, nothing,» she has given you a full three - act play in those five minutes.

Redirecting his energies to the theater, Caesar wrote the popular one - act play Napoleon's Barber, which was adapted for the screen as director John Ford's first talkie.

This should have been a one act play in a community theater.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's Love Stories takes a meta approach to presenting three one - act plays by three celebrated playwrights.

As a result, the second and third acts play like the two just threw up their hands in desperation and said, «screw it.»

And as the final act plays out on an astonishingly expansive scale, this film remains true to the franchise while also revealing itself to be as bold and daring as its characters.

Bleed for This, from Best Picture - winning distributor Open Road Film (Spotlight), is starting a bit mixed and feels more like just an acting play for Miles Teller and Aaron Eckhart.

Based on Allen's one - act play «Death» from his literary volume «Without Feathers,» Shadows and Fog is visually unlike any film he's made.

You could imagine Laura Poitras» extraordinary CITIZENFOUR making a great and very claustrophobic one - act play.

The film's first act plays like a half - hearted Boogie Nights Xerox (with some of the same music cues, even).

This movie looks so great even the acting seems to have improved from the last time I watched it, confirming Blimp as the sort of film in which all the elements of style and craftsman design and acting play together in a harmony that improves when any one element is highlighted by loving treatment.

The Party is like a kind of one - act play by Simon Gray or Anthony Schaffer, which might be produced on stage as the second half of a double - bill — with an early piece by Stoppard before the interval, perhaps — so that the evening can end on a heartstoppingly loud gunshot before the curtain call.

In 1988, after amicably splitting with Brown, Zanuck and his wife, Lili Fini Zanuck, formed The Zanuck Company and produced as their first film Driving Miss Daisy, based on Alfred Uhry's one - act play about the relationship between a strong - willed Southern widow and her black chauffeur.

Their most recent production was Burton's Dark Shadows (2012), an unsuccessful attempt to recapture the potent mixture of soap opera and horror tale that had been a daytime television hit in the late Sixties.At the time of Richard's death, he and his wife were preparing with HBO a television series titled The Decalogue, 10 one - act plays set in modern day Los Angeles, each based on one of the Ten Commandments.

Given the nature of the movie, this could have very easily been a three - act play, as we get much more dialogue than action.

Their bristly conversations in the final act play out in long takes that are seriously gripping.

In a roster that makes The Thin Red Line cast look like the lineup for a one - act play, the film stars a score of A-list actors, like John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, Ed Harris, Bruce Dern, etc. (everyone wanted in on Dylan's film, naturally).

From a movie that didn't seem that appealing from the trailer, I really was astounded by how well the story, comedy, and acting played hand in hand to make an enjoyable night at the movies.

Carola, U.S.A. 1960 Translation from French and adaptation by Jean Renoir, Robert Goldsby and Angela Goldsby of Renoir's original three act play Director: Jean Renoir Assistant Director: Robert Goldsby Sets: John T. Dreier Costumes: Shan Slattery Technical Assistant: Herbert Schoeller Stage Manager: Larry Belling Cast: Deneen Peckinpah (Carola Janssen), Robert Martinson (General von Clodius), Eileen Coltrell (Mireille), Caroline Rosqui (Josette), Sydney Field (Campan), Dan Moore (Henri), David Grimsted (Colonel Kroll), James Tripp (Parmentier), Duke Stroud (Camille), Malcolm Green (Lieutenant Keller), Robert Phalen (First French Gestapo Member), Charles Head (Second French Gestapo Member), David Vilner (First German Military Policeman), Dan Rich (Second German Military Policeman), Tony Loeb & Cliff Ghames (Members of the Gestapo), Jim Mantell & Lewis Brown (German Soldiers), Wendy Goodman, Shelia Ryan & Susan Brewer (Actresses), Miles Snyder & Stephen Vause (Actors).

Adapted from Coward's one - act play Still Life, Brief Encounter employs a structural gambit that will look mighty familiar to anyone who saw Todd Haynes» Carol, which lifts it wholesale.

Harry and Alice start a fling, while George takes on a big - brother - like relationship with Alice's elder daughter, who is writing a one - act play for school.

SNL alum Tim Kazurinsky (aka «Sweetchuck» from the Police Academy films) reworked David Mamet's one - act play from the mid-1970s, «Sexual Perversity in Chicago» into the modern day with About Last Night... (reportedly, the title changed due to some media outlets refusing to promote it with its original title).

Roger Greenberg's life is a one act play: the not - quite Jew, the bundle of neuroses who refuses to be identified with his stint in a mental hospital, who breaks even the Larry David / Woody Allen mold of comedic curmudgeon, as someone not quite of either coastal city, but of both and back, and of course, my favorite, the lone pedestrian in a city of cars.

Scriptwriting with a Wiki This middle - and high - school lesson plan uses a wiki — a Web site that allows users to add and edit content collectively — to write a one - act play.