(n.) A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.
(n.) A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.
(n.) Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peter retired in 1998, when he was appointed CBE for his services to drama.
(2) The dramas are part of the BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow's plans for her "unashamedly intelligent" channel over the coming months.
(3) Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection.
(4) While ITV1's Harry Hill and the final series of BBC1's Gavin and Stacey will stay put, Sky1 did manage to secure US drama House, starring Hugh Laurie, from Channel Five, paying an estimated £500,000 an episode.
(5) There could be no faulting the atmosphere or the football drama.
(6) A Catholic boys’ school has reversed its permission to allow civil rights drama Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page as a lesbian couple, to shoot on location in New York State.
(7) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
(8) "We don't think British drama is failing because these things are so good – it just shows that other countries do good drama."
(9) Limits are a relief, because they concentrate the drama and free the writer from the torture of choice, as Aristotle knew when he advised playwrights to preserve "the unities" by telling one story in one place over a single day.
(10) George RR Martin , whose series of novels inspired the HBO drama , has woven a tapestry of extraordinary size and richness; and most of the threads he has used derive from the history of our own world.
(11) He'd later carry this over into Netflix's House Of Cards but before that, TV had already begun to emulate this new, bleak, antiheroic maturity with a cycle of dark, longform, acclaimed dramas, commencing with The Sopranos and culminating in Breaking Bad .
(12) The prime minister told the Radio Times he was a fan of the "brilliant" US musical drama Glee, preferred Friends to The West Wing, and chose Lady Gaga over Madonna, and Cheryl Cole over Simon Cowell.
(13) He knew his subject personally, having worked with him on the 1993 romantic drama Poetic Justice , in which the rapper starred opposite Janet Jackson.
(14) Phoenix will next be seen in James Gray's Lowlife, a historical drama about immigrants in 1900s New York.
(15) Ellen Page is to make her directorial debut with Miss Stevens, starring Anna Faris as a teacher chaperoning a mob of high school students to a state drama competition.
(16) The first episode of the gothic drama pulled in 6.1 million viewers on Easter Monday but that number dropped to only 4.5 million for the second episode, prompting fears that the audience numbers could decline even further for Wednesday's finale.
(17) This House , his witty political drama set in the whips' office of 1970s Westminster, transferred from the National's Cottesloe theatre to the Olivier, following critical acclaim.
(18) Whatever conclusion the crowd might have drawn, what's striking is that Tempest's poem couldn't be ignored: the conviction and drama of her performance forced a reaction and coloured the rest of the evening.
(19) (Personally, I think a perfect contemporary drama would highlight the quiet, fraught, human, ongoing battle between those who want to live life and those who want to live life electronically.
(20) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
Playwright
Definition:
(n.) A maker or adapter of plays.
Example Sentences:
(1) Limits are a relief, because they concentrate the drama and free the writer from the torture of choice, as Aristotle knew when he advised playwrights to preserve "the unities" by telling one story in one place over a single day.
(2) But it was also a portrait of an England charged with secrets - and, as Michael Billington put it, the work of an accomplished playwright who understood the English curse of 'emotional evasion.'
(3) In his articles, he took on the theatre establishment, blaming it for siding with the actors and not the playwright.
(4) Numbness sets in.” Philip Hope-Wallace on Look Back in Anger “I must be the only playwright this century to have been pursued up a London street by an angry mob … There was an inescapable tension in the house.
(5) Fine, Miranda (the playwright-lyricist-composer also sings, acts and dances the lead role of Alexander Hamilton, making him a ... let’s see, carry the one ... sextuple threat) will give you George Washington.
(6) Although such allegations have been made before in numerous news outlets, and in a controversial one-man show by playwright Mike Daisey, this time they have struck a chord.
(7) The barrister, playwright and author Sir John Mortimer , who has died aged 85, was a man for all the seasons that touched his Chilterns garden, where he lived as profusely as he wrote, in a spirit of unjudgmental generosity.
(8) He is joined by Jack Driscoll, the playwright who journeyed with Denham 25 years previously and was played by Adrien Brody in Jackson's film.
(9) A playwright and actor has launched legal action against British Airways and London City airport, alleging that they irreparably damaged her £25,000 wheelchair, made her daily life more difficult and caused problems for her business.
(10) (2) The central theme of "passion" in Equus would seem to relate to the vicissitudes of infantile omnipotence, as noted in both the content of the play and the process of playwrighting.
(11) Havel was a renowned playwright and essayist who, after the crushing of the Prague spring in 1968, was drawn increasingly into the political struggle against the Czechoslovakian communist dictatorship, which he called Absurdistan.
(12) When he died, [playwright] Patrick Marber said to me: we've got to use everything we learned."
(13) One man, a playwright, came in and gave a lesson on Harold Pinter.
(14) Indeed, then-leftwing writers such as John Dos Passos , John Howard Lawson and Mike Gold , who had their plays produced in Greenwich Village, were dubbed by the critic Alexander Woollcott “the revolting playwrights”.
(15) One rainy day last autumn the playwright and actor Patrick Marber went home to his wife and said: "I have some bad news."
(16) If you say, ‘This is Kate Tempest and she’s a poet-rapper-playwright,’ it sounds confusing and ridiculous and a bit naff.
(17) He was a keen visual artist, a storyteller, playwright, novelist, news reporter, radio DJ, a verse and prose writer and an enthusiastic walker.
(18) He has suggested that the Nobel laureate Dario Fo take Napolitano's place as head of state, a suggestion the playwright was quoted on Wednesday as dismissing as "an absurd but lovely" idea.
(19) · George Furth, playwright and actor; born December 14 1932; died August 11 2008
(20) But Havel, the playwright and the dissident, could not be silenced.