Sentences with phrase «play as an adaptation»

For example, research on children's play in extant hunter - gatherer societies, and evolutionary psychology studies of other mammalian young, have identified play as an adaptation that enabled early humans to become powerful learners and problem - solvers.

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According to reports, he's consulting the book as he prepares to play a Jesuit in a film adaptation of «Silence,» a novel about Catholic missionaries in Japan.

The course was initially created as an adaptation of Buddhist teachings on mindfulness, although Kabat - Zinn subsequently played down the connection to Buddhism, instead focusing on the scientifically proven benefits of mindfulness.

However, although religion did not originally emerge as a biological adaptation, it can play a role in both facilitating and stabilizing cooperation within groups, and as such, could be the target of cultural selection.»

but a t some point he lost it, and is not because of his stinginess to buy players, our core is good and has been for sometime now, his biggest problem was adaptation, change to the new EPL, his philosophy dating back 20 years does not work anymore and he knows it, because of this his biggest flaw all others came out to light, lack of rotation of his players favoring some over others, stubbornness that applies to his transfer policy buying for the future just as he had 20 more years ahead, players playing out of their natural positions, ARSENAL FLOPS who knows under other Managers they could have been great, for some reason they were signed in the first place, they must had some talent, best example is Campbell....

He also wants to act in his second school play after appearing as a handyman in an adaptation of You Can't Take it With You in the spring.

Yoenis Cespedes is a fine replacement for Torii Hunter, David Price is one of the only pitchers who could replace Max Scherzer at the top of a rotation, and Anthony Gose's talent would probably play Austin Jackson's talent in a film adaptation, so it's not as if they're that much different from last year's.

Playing for Keeps: Play that Keeps Love, Creativity, and Belonging First - Register now for API Live with international play expert Fred Donaldson Monday, January 23, 2012, at 9 pm EST / 6 pm PST join API Live to learn about Original Play and how we can understand it as parents for fostering self - esteem, transformation, security, welcoming, adaptation and many more qualities for our children's development and heaPlay that Keeps Love, Creativity, and Belonging First - Register now for API Live with international play expert Fred Donaldson Monday, January 23, 2012, at 9 pm EST / 6 pm PST join API Live to learn about Original Play and how we can understand it as parents for fostering self - esteem, transformation, security, welcoming, adaptation and many more qualities for our children's development and heaplay expert Fred Donaldson Monday, January 23, 2012, at 9 pm EST / 6 pm PST join API Live to learn about Original Play and how we can understand it as parents for fostering self - esteem, transformation, security, welcoming, adaptation and many more qualities for our children's development and heaPlay and how we can understand it as parents for fostering self - esteem, transformation, security, welcoming, adaptation and many more qualities for our children's development and health.

«As the story goes with exercise - induced changes in strength, neural adaptations are contributing first with muscle growth playing a more prominent role in the latter portion of a training program: however, there is little direct evidence that this is actually true in an adult partaking in a resistance training program,» said Dr. Jeremy Loenneke, senior author of the Muscle & Nerve article.

Through Exultant Ark Jonathan Balcombe makes the case that, although much of animal behaviour has come about as the result of evolutionary adaptation to serve a straightforwardly practical function, there are elements of play that require a more joyful explanation.

Basak explained that strategy - based video games include, not only real - time strategy games, such as «Rise of Nations,» which was used in her research, but also computer adaptations of strategy board games such as «Settlers of Catan,» a favorite among physicists and mathematicians; «Ticket to Ride,» for geography lovers; and especially the classic strategy game of chess — all played with a time constraint.

«This adaptation may have played an important role in the initial radiation and subsequent success of theropods as terrestrial apex predators.»

A few reviewers found the material a bit too dated, but this adaptation of Terence Rattigan's 1952 play of the same name by Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives) drew mostly raves, especially for Rachel Weisz's powerful performance as a woman whose life is torn apart when she cheats on her older husband (Simon Russell Beale) with a young war veteran (Tom Hiddleston).

Find out below as we look at the highlights and lowlights of the past two decades of big - screen adaptations of plays and musicals, starting with the best of the bunch.

In this adaptation of Inge's play, Daniel Mann, a specialist of melodramas, gets a good performance from Shirely Booth as a self - pitying housewife but a misguided one from Burt Lancaster.

Neil LaBute's debut film was an adaptation of his own darkly comedic 1992 play, and its provocative, Mamet-esque dialogue marked the writer - director as a rising star in indie film world in the late 1990s, while also launching the career of star Aaron Eckhart, here playing one of a pair of coworkers seeking cruel revenge against women.

In this faithful film adaptation of the longest - running non-musical play in Broadway history, William Powell stars as Clarence Day, the benevolent despot of his 1880s New York City household.

These represented high points, however, and more often than not, Adams found herself relegated to parts unworthy of her, such as the unevenly received 1985 adaptation of Kevin Wade's play Key Exchange (in which she reprised her stage role) and the histrionic TV movies Lace (1984) and Lace II (1985).

This film adaptation of Terrence McNally's Tony Award winning play focuses on eight gay men as they spend three summer holiday weekends together at a rural country house.

In a contemporary adaptation of Langston Hughes» celebrated play, the holiday musical drama BLACK NATIVITY follows Langston (Jacob Latimore), a street-wise teen from Baltimore raised by a single mother, as he journeys to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives Reverend Cornell and Aretha Cobbs (Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett).

She was also fortunate in working at the National Theater with Peter Gill in his stage adaptation of Faulkner's AS I LAY DYING; to play Masha in THREE SISTERS at the Greenwich Theater directed by Elijah Moshinsky; and the lead in the LULU PLAYS by Wedekind at the Almeida Theater.

His life was recently well - documented by the Shane Salerno documentary, SALINGER, and REBEL IN THE RYE very much plays out like a feature - adaptation of it, although it frustratingly ends the story as Salinger goes into seclusion.

The 1974 film starring Robert Redford as Gatsby, Mia Farrow as Daisy, and Sam Waterston as Nick is the best known adaptation, and with a cast like that, speculation immediately began as to who would play those parts if Luhrmann pursued the project.

Alien: Isolation is one of the most faithful video game adaptations you're ever likely to play, coming across as an homage to Alien and a like - for - like recreation of the used future Ridley Scott introduced us to in 1979.

Anthony Asquith's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's witty play of mistaken identities stars Michael Redgrave as rich bachelor Jack Worthing.

He then returned to the world of corsets and BBC English, first as a lawyer in David Mamet's 1999 adaptation of Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy and then as An Ideal Husband in Oliver Parker's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play.

As an adaptation, the transposition of Hardy's story to rural India makes a lot of sense — the double standards applied to the sexes play out quite well.

Last year, the actor played supporting Vampire hunter Henry Sturges in the genre - bending novel adaptation Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - one of the bright spots in a film that fell short of finding the same success as its source material.

Interestingly, rather than try to keep as much of the stage musical intact in order to please fans of the theater production, Condon has made several significant changes in his adaptation, most notably in making the characters play more like the real - life counterparts of their inspiration.

With its meticulous framing, bold editing and sparsely sumptuous cinematography, Justin Kurzel's adaptation of the most straightforward of Shakespeare's plays has as its closest cinema - analogue, Nicolas Winding Refn's Valhalla Rising.

Directed by John Madden («Shakespeare in Love (more...) Gwyneth Paltrow and Hope Davis are superb as the daughters of a mentally unstable math genius (Anthony Hopkins) in this intelligent adaptation of David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize - winning play.

«Naming Number Two» (TBA): Toa Fraser's adaptation of her stage play stars the venerable Ruby Dee as the matriarch of a Fijian family who throws a feast to name her successor.

Mark Addy, best known as the lovable tubster from «The Full Monty», is more an object of annoyance than affection in this uneasy big screen adaptation of a semi-popular stage play.

Gwyneth Paltrow and Hope Davis are superb as the daughters of a mentally unstable math genius (Anthony Hopkins) in this intelligent adaptation of David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize - winning play.

My Old Lady: Ringed with darkness though it is, this adaptation of an Israel Horowitz play (he also wrote and directed the film) is the kind of show you slip into as comfortably as a pair of old slippers.

Those film historians who've summed up Kemp's post-Z Cars TV appearances as «sporadic» evidently haven't seen his small - screen work in such miniseries as Winds of War and its sequel War and Remembrance (he played German general Armin Von Roon in both); he also played Cornwall in Sir Laurence Olivier's 1983 television adaptation of King Lear, and was featured in the internationally produced historical multiparters George Washington (1985) and Peter the Great (1986).

A Single Man Tom Ford's adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel, about a gay man grieving over the death of his lover, is a bleak, intelligent film that serves as a showcase for what may be Colin Firth's finest film performance, the ultimate elucidation of the character he has been playing, in one form or another, for years: The man who feels too much to allow himself to show it.

I suppose you could forgive the irregular rhythms of Killer Joe as merely the reality of turning a play into a film, but there have been plenty of smoother stage to screen adaptations in the past.

With Julia Roberts already cast as Auggie's mother, Owen Wilson is now in talks to play Pullman's father in the big screen adaptation directed by Perks Of Being A Wallflower author / director Stephen Chbosky.

Marking Irish director Jordan's second venture into the vampire genre, the film is an adaptation of a play by Moira Buffini called A Vampire Story, which was commissioned as part of Londonâ $ ™ s National Theatre Connections season in 2008.

Deadline reports Ready Player One, Spielberg's adaptation of Ernest Cline's bestselling sci - fi novel, is scheduled for a December 15, 2017 release date, meaning instead of reading about a kid playing video games, you'll get to watch a kid play video games, an activity universally agreed upon as being the most fun.

Next is Lux Radio Theater's December 28, 1942 broadcast (58:21), which gives the original A Star is Born the then - common adaptation treatment, with Judy Garland playing the role of Esther (over a decade before she would on film) and Walter Pidgeon replacing Fredric March as Norman Maine.

Right from the moment we first saw her at age 13 in Atonement as the worryingly precocious younger sister at the big house, she's always seemed someone set apart, which makes playing an ordinary Irish village girl in this adaptation of Colm Tóibín's noted novel the sort of challenge which might just set the agenda for the rest of her career.

Michael Fassbender stars as Macbeth, Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth, in this adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play, from the filmmaker who brought us The Snowtown Murders.

He has also appeared in Selma, Straight Outta Compton and Get Out, and his next film is Death Note, a Netflix manga adaptation out 25 August in which he plays a rogue detective known as L.

Co-written with regular screenwriter Grant Heslov, it's a big - screen adaptation of Beau Willimon's play «Farragut North», based on Willimon's time as an aide during the failed 2004 presidential bid of US politician Howard Dean.

Indeed, Ivory will win because he's due, and deservedly so, both for his astutely configured adaptation of André Aciman's acclaimed novel of the same name — about the love affair between two men that plays out against the background of a dreamy Mediterranean summer — and as a tribute to his 44 - year working partnership (and romantic relationship) with Ismail Merchant.

In 1995, McKellen starred to acclaim as Richard III, in his own screen - adaptation of Shakespeare's play, which he also produced.

But writer - director Barry Jenkins treats identity as more of a prism than a lens in his adaptation of Tarell Alvin McCraney's unproduced play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.

Scott also plays Edgar in Richard Eyre's modern - day adaptation of King Lear, with Anthony Hopkins as the elderly monarch who divides his kingdom for his three daughters — played here by Emma Thompson, Emma Watson and Florence Pugh.