Sentences with phrase «paid as a playwright»

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.

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..

After a successful run as a playwright in New York in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Sturges moved to Hollywood, where Paramount paid him a lavish $ 2,500 per week.