Sentences with phrase «playwright said»

Asked the form of trance the President was in, the respected playwright said, «I don't know.

Edward Albee the playwright said in a television interview that anyone who bought a ticket to see one of his plays had to assume some of the responsibility for that play.

The playwright says, «Stubbornness and stupidity are twins,» and both Antigone and Creon could have found a path of compromise a bit less bloody.

Not exact matches

Albee assistant Jackob Holder says the playwright died Friday at his home on Long Island.

She's an actor / playwright / freelance writer, «but something about saying that out loud at parties made me blush,» she confesses.

French playwright Antonin Artaud, and many postmodern thinkers, for example, would say that reality is experiential.

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..

Even the Greek playwright, Euripides said that «it is better to be a serpent than a stepmother.»

Vladimir Nabokov got it right when he said that Dostoevsky had a playwright's sensibilities, though Nabokov meant it as a criticism.

The English poet and playwright George Bernard Shaw said, «He who has never hoped never despairs.»

The playwright believes further cuts will results in the arts becoming increasingly dominated by those who can afford it, which he says will be a «tragedy» and greatly impact diversity within the profession.

Like all origin stories, it would ultimately prove fictional, but it showed me what I love, what I want, and, as a playwright friend of mine likes to say, «what I want to want.»

It requires routine practice, and that brings a level of mindfulness that is «calming,» says Garlia Cornelia, a 34 - year - old mom of two and a playwright in the suburbs of New York.

A young playwright, Richard Collier (Reeve), is approached by an elderly woman on the occasion of his first triumph in 1972 — all she says to him is «Come back to me» and leaves him with a watch that contains a picture of a ravishing young woman.

«You both has such strong personalities,» says Larry, Lady Bird's father, played by playwright Tracy Letts.

(In a nicely - phrased bit of praise, he says the playwright's words feel good in his mouth.)

That isn't to say the 35 - year - old comic is actually a 70 - some - odd - year - old failed New York playwright.

Mark Ruffalo once said of Lonergan, affectionately, that the playwright was only playing at being humble.

10:35 am — IFC — Barton Fink One of the Coen Brothers» most brilliant dark comedies (heh, I think I say that about all of their dark comedies, though), Barton Fink follows its title character, a New York playwright whose hit play brings him to the attention of Hollywood, where he goes to work for the movies.

Playwright Lucy Kirkwood said that the story, first staged at the Almeida theatre in 2013, has only grown more relevant: «It was thrilling for me to return to the story of two men, one American and one Chinese, trying to work out how to respond to the outrages of an increasingly outrageous world, and look through their eyes at our changing relationship with journalism, power, protest, and images themselves».

Now, in what's destined to be one of the great Off - Broadway performances of 2016, the actor returns to the Lucille Lortel Theatre for MCC playwright - in - residence Neil LaBute's «All the Ways to Say I Love You» Sept. 6 — Oct. 9.

The movie also answers the question David Mamet says every playwright / screenwriter needs to ask: What does the guy want?

«Not really,» says McDonagh, who's often called Ireland's greatest living playwright, though he was born and raised in London (by Irish parents).

Dashiell Hammett's sharp - witted society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy)-- who were said to be based by Hammett on his own relationship with playwright Lillian Hellman — solve another one, this time at a racetrack.

«I'm looking forward to see if the Olympia stage can handle that level of talent,» playwright Walsh said.

Spartan It's no well - kept secret that David Mamet is my favorite playwright, and when he's penned and helmed a thriller as intense, twisty, and ambiguous as Spartan, you can most likely be sure I'll have something good to say about it.

To quote Sir Ian McKellen who supports this organization, «Shakespeare is taught in a lot of schools but it's not necessarily taught by people who've got the means of communication and see the relevance and are able to say Shakespeare wrote hundreds of years ago but he is absolutely alive; he is the world's greatest playwright and he still goes on being relevant....»

By the early 17th century the expression is clearly well in use as Jacobean playwright Thomas Middleton writes «Whereby that old moth - eaten proverb is verified, which says, «one mans meate, is another man's poyson»» (1604).

As playwright Alan Bennett said, «A book is a device to ignite the imagination».

The BBC said its «Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell» mini-series would be presented in seven hourlong installments, adapted by Peter Harness (a screenwriter and playwright whose credits include «Wallander» and «Is Anybody There?»)

I should also note regarding subsidiary rights — playwrights and their agents can frequently negotiate a term limit to the subsidiary rights period (say, ten years) but more and more theatres are grabbing rights for the full length of copyright.

As a rule, a playwright wants to say something to the reader, highlight some aspects of the social life, display human vices or discuss some other problems of our being.

«I'm pretty sad about it, just because Shomi has a lot of content not only that I want to watch but also that Crave (TV) doesn't have,» said Michael Kras, an actor and playwright in Hamilton, who subscribed to Shomi just a couple weeks ago.

Villa Malta Suite's views, which include the church of Trinità dei Monti and Rome beyond, were said to inspire poet, playwright and former guest Ga - briele D'Annunzio, whilst the Villa Medici Presidential Suite's captivating city vistas were enjoyed by John F. Kennedy Jr..

The apartment, now a museum, is said to be laid out with furniture as an exact replica as the famous playwright had it during his lifetime.

«To say the truth of the man is in this means the playwright was able to capture the truth of Rothko.»

But playwright Tom Stoppard has criticised such artists for producing work he said was artless, self - indulgent and without spiritual meaning.

«The play poses this most difficult question of whether we can act in our own defense» when faced with a global threat, says the playwright, Karen Malpede, a twin herself.

«The strongest man is he who stands alone in the world,» he said, quoting Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

To call a spade a spade, which means,... «to speak plainly and bluntly; to speak without euphemisms», is first found in Ancient Greece... the playwright Menander, in a fragment, said «I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade,»...

Knowing where to draw the line is important, and judges must often be tempted to stray from their field to greener fictional grass in the next meadow; but, as a playwright once said Quod licet iovi, non licet bovi, which, in this case may be roughly translated as «Hey, judge, get off the grass!»

And playwright Oscar Wilde said that one should always be in love and that's why one should never marry.

Playwright Arthur Miller, perhaps indicative of his future relationship with Marilyn Monroe, had nothing cheerful to say about salesmen.

What I'd say to Christine Cooper if I met her at a party and we started having a stoush (a bit like when I was working at Cosmo magazine and sparred in a bar with Paul McDermott about women's magazines, without the sexual tension) is: «What if I told you to forget about being a playwright because plays bore me to tears?»