The phrase "actors off" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to actors being off stage or not performing, but without additional context, it is ambiguous.
Example: "The actors off stage were preparing for their next scene."
Alternatives: "offstage actors" or "actors not performing".
But a writer working in the theatre is writing for performance, to show actors off at their best.
The experience is made all the more unusual by Tom Scutt's set – a cube of one-way glass that cuts the actors off from their audience.
It turns actors off, and would ring in a double standard for them: the challenge is not to find paragons to play but to find roles that offer complexity.
It is held at his screening room, and Allen, who rarely sits during an audition, usually tries to head the actors off on the threshold of the screening room before they can take up a beachhead and sink into a chair.
While it's good to use film to raise awareness about grievances within communities of color, there's no reason to close actresses and actors off from the opportunity to play characters that endure experiences that are altogether human.
Ironically, the large and diverse cast initially put some actors off auditioning.
Mr. Nielsen kept the actors off-balance by interrupting their line readings with his favorite comic prop, a hand-held toy simulating flatulence.
But having offered us tantalising glimpses of the actors' off-screen lives in her film-within-a-play, Cartmell leaves the audience looking forward to a sequel.
"Once and Again" chose, movingly, to emphasize the continuity between the family of characters on-screen and the family of actors off-screen.
It means that, even with training, the force of the performances derives in large measure from their proximity to and connection with the actors' off-screen, real-life personality and experience.
Actors' off-screen relationships seem to resonate in a film that "is wonderful at showing how trivial incidents can unlock reserves of festering resentment in a high-strung household," Stephen Holden wrote in The Times.
