Sentences with phrase «played by audience»
Athens based artist Angelo Plessas presents his first solo exhibition of websites that are a set of unique intimate artworks activated and played by the audience.
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This description resembles the «Black Panther» villain Killmonger, played by Michael B. Jordan, who was praised by critics and audiences for being a sympathetic figure even though his methods were brutal.
Even a sensitive director like David Giles at York is impelled in that direction by the nature of his play and the size of his audience.
You apply for a job in my community by running a campaign for a paid office that my local tax dollars pay for and you get elected then show up to your first scheduled meeting and decide to spend the first 5 minutes — eating donuts instead of working, speaking to the audience about your personal problems with your wife, telling the audience about an upcoming play your kid will be in, telling the captive audience about the benefits of being gay, speaking to them about God or praying aloud to your God regardless of which God the rest of the audience believes in.
Ka is present as the coup is proclaimed in the city's theater, where soldiers fire into an audience that the coup plotters have intentionally provoked by reviving an anti-Islamist play called «My Fatherland or My Head Scarf.»
And precisely because the proverbs and folk wisdom being expressed are true, and recognized as true by the audience, they create a bond between the meaning of the play and the experience of the spectators.
Obama tried to do right by her by employing the composite, and had Dreams only been the book it was initially presented as, he might have done well - enough by her, but since all along he was hoping that it could also benefit his political ambitions, his inclusion of the play - incident will probably eventually result in exposing her foibles to the largest possible audience.
Buoyed by controversy, the film will become the most watched Passion play in history, and so its strengths and flaws — The Passion has plenty of both — will have a breathtakingly broad audience.
One is that because of the active part played by people in the audience in seeking out gratifying communications to meet their personal and social needs, the dominant uses being made of a religious program may be quite different from the stated aims of the program itself.
Rather than calling the game through traditional color and play - by - play analysis, Twitch creators will have the opportunity to talk their audience through the game while answering questions live.
The bad hip - hop and Blink 182 songs that the DJ played was made more annoying by the boredom of his audience — I couldn't even bring myself to yell for him to play «March Madness» as I do everywhere.
Each performance is followed by a talk - back, giving audience members a chance to discuss pertinent issues from the play.
11 am: Doors open to Subscribers, FlexPass holders, and Community Members Ongoing: Self - guided backstage tours, Costume Corner, Scavenger Hunt 11:30 am: Props Activity: Build your own Rabbit Session # 1 (paint shop) 11:45 am: Cutting of the 30th Birthday cake 12 pm: Doors open to the general public 12 pm: 2012 - 2013 Season Talk with Managing Director Michael Maso 12:30 pm: Props Activity: Build your own Rabbit Session # 2 (paint shop) 1 pm: Audience - participatory reading of a 10 - minute play: The Pickup by HPF Lawrence Goodman (onstage) 1:30 pm: Shop Talk: Costumes, The Art of the Quick Change with Costume Director Nancy Brennan (onstage) 1:30 pm: Props Activity: Build your own Rabbit Session # 3 (paint shop) 2 pm: Audience - participatory reading of a scene from Our Town (on stage) 2:15 pm: Shop Talk: Paints, Marble Magic & Scenic Painting Technique with Scenic Charge Artists Kristin Krause (paint shop) 2:30 pm: Audience - participatory reading of 10 - minute play: Diamonds by HPF David Valdex - Greenwood (on stage) 2:45 pm: Raffle drawing 3 pm: Open House ends
Stereotypes of the British as Victorian - era imperialists are as cack - handed and ignorant as jokes about the Germans still being Nazis, but they play well to her domestic audience, who are still bruised by the war and Argentina's perpetual obsession with its own cultural superiority - a sort of Japan of the Latin Americas.
Zeldin believes Miller was moved by the message of the play and says he would like other Tories to be in the audience when it runs at the National Theatre.
The past few days have resembled a very bad play whose mechanics are excruciatingly visible to the audience, in which every character reveals their own fatal weakness by calling out someone else for it.
Minutes without dialogue or action bravely drag as the audience is taken through the sheer banality of torture along with the artist, played by an at once rumbustious and reflective Benedict Wong.
«Stop playing politics as usual, and you put your own personal and party politics aside,» Cuomo said at about the 7:26 mark in the video that appears below (shot by a reader who was in the audience).
«I went to the first post-nomination hustings, staged by the New Statesman magazine at Church House, close to the Commons, and Diane played to the left - wing audience superbly and roughed up her opponents from the Labour establishment with skill and flair.»
The audience — other young pianists and their parents — watched as I played the first eight notes of a piece by composer Edvard Grieg.
«First, many candidates are largely unknown to a national audience, so voters still need to learn by observing the candidates» performance on the campaign trail and their performance in national debates, both of which often play a major role in influencing voters,» he said.
According to figures released in 2015, NFL audiences in the UK had increased by 75 % during the previous four years with significant interest in the end of season play - offs and the subsequent Superbowl.
As the audience follows the slow - moving battle, punctuated by threats, confrontations and shifting alliances, the Russian - born director sets a deathtrap that snaps in a breathtaking conclusion that plays like slow motion — not the thriller type; even better: a prolonged, torturous finish which is the logical culmination of an explicitly accepted philosophy.
In their latest film The Farrelly Brothers have decided to provide a modern audience with an updated take on The Stooges, played spot - on by Will Sasso, Sean Hayes and Chris Diamantopoulos.
The arguments start to wear on the audience as much as the characters, and by the time we get to the scene in which Ben's mother (played by the invaluable Susie Essman, of «Curb Your Enthusiasm») Explains Women To Him in a tidy little monologue, even he has to admit that «that's a little reductive.»
But we got to a point when audience members started asking, «Why is Django [played by Jamie Foxx] being so mean to all the other slaves?»
It's all hilarious to watch, and James Franco knows Wiseau is a figure of fun for the film while Sestero, played with well - meaning sweetness by his brother Dave, is the audience surrogate.
The original film turned suspense levels to 11 by playing with dramatic irony, showing the audience the location of the three strangers far more often than the characters are aware of it.
Despite what critics and some audiences who may have inconsistencies or confusions or improbabilities, but there is one perfect thing at it's center, and that is the character of Celie, played with riveting and emotional fire by Whoopi Goldberg in her first ever theatrical role that consisted of its predominately African - American cast that also included Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Laurence Fishburne, and Adolph Caesar.
Written by Jay Baruchel, he also plays Doug's best friend throughout the film, and while he is just present to make audiences laugh, he does serve the purpose of giving his friend the much needed confidence on the ice.
Mr. Petit, an elfin Frenchman with a terrible haircut, is played by the manic - pixie song - and - dance man Joseph Gordon - Levitt as an irrepressible imp, greeting the audience in accented English from a perch on the Statue of Liberty's torch.
Yet if she seems silly, audiences have only to wait until her pirating companion, played by Matthew Modine, arrives on the scene to show how swashes can buckle entirely.
Her Margo along with lead investigator Detective Boney (played by Kim Dickens) give the audience some desperately needed level - heads to rely on on the constantly shifting field Fincher constructs.
There's a reason why this movie has won audience awards at nearly every festival it's played, and I can't wait for mainstream audiences to be blindsided by it in 2018.
The sports - themed picture takes no dramatic license (right «down to the costumes») in bringing audiences the true - life tale of sports agent J.B. Bernstein's (played by Job Hamm)... [Read more...]
Her boisterous energy was perfectly matched by Maya Rudolph's grounded and mature comic stylings, and they played off each other beautifully as they reassured the audience that they shouldn't worry.
Toro's script plays by whatever rules he establishes in the onset, introducing the audience to another hyper realty.
Garland expertly ratchets up the tension, confining nearly the entire film to one location and only four characters (Sonoya Mizuno plays Isaac's unsettlingly mute servant), and forcing the audience to question the humanity of all four characters by the end.
On one hand, the speech tests the audience's patience for legalese; on the other, it is a tour - de-force, a brilliant meditation on the fundamental tension between moral right and democratic law, delivered by an actor so thoroughly in command of the character that it feels almost effortlessly tossed off — one can only imagine that Lincoln, the lawyer and the president, spent many sleepless nights playing this debate out in his mind.
Perhaps the idea being explored here is that St Petersburg is a stage with all of its inhabitants playing clearly defined roles, with their behaviour being constantly scrutinised by a whispering audience.
As though to desensitize the audience for events to come, Kubrick delivers scene after scene of the drill sergeant, superbly played by former Marine drill instructor Lee Ermey.
There are people fighting in the street - we see this played out from a distance - but Catching Fire is aimed at audiences who have been mollified by the media - people living in the Capital, as we all do - and yet want to make a difference.
Director John Curran doesn't let audiences forget that Mary Jo Kopechne, played by Kate Mara, is the real victim.
This does not end with the credits, as Wallace continues keeping a balance — albeit a skewed one, this is a movie meant mainly for American audiences — by showing the mental mêlée played between the leaders of the two armies and the fact that the dead Vietnamese soldiers were just as unfortunate losses as the Americans, just that they are on the side that normally gets the shaft in Hollywood cinema.
As directed by first - timer Billy Kent, The Oh in Ohio plays out like an extended HBO sitcom, full of adult humor, modestly popular stars, and writing that knowingly plays irreverently to its target audience.
Santa makes a plastic toy clone of himself (also, sadly, played by Allen) who, besides frightening all of the small children in the audience, becomes an epaulet - wearing despot intent on giving the kids of the world coal in their stockings (which, funnily enough, would be a boon for many children in the world).
(p. 37) Yet, whereas Daire sees Mauprat as a dynamic, complex, and ostensibly queer studio film (the gender play he notes in the biography), Keller sees the film as a «costume drama [that] lacks almost entirely the vigour described by Epstein about the effects of cinema on an audience.»
The audience is told little about the unnamed characters played by Lawrence and Bardem — called Mother and Him on IMDb.
This drama about a young mother and her 5 - year - old son held prisoner by a sexual predator has been collecting audience prizes at just about every film festival it has played, including the bellwether People's Choice Award at Toronto.
The film opens majestically, with great wit, as the director himself plays a man magically transported from a hotel room to a cinema hall, where he gazes down upon an audience enraptured by moving images from the 1890s.