When you ask for YA contemporary novels set outside of Anglo-America, what you're likely to get is a flurry of stories about upper-middle-class Americans or Brits who move halfway across the world and suffer from extreme culture shock.
Mr Doran said he often received letters from academics asking for obscure work by Shakespeare's contemporaries to be considered for production at the RSC.
The Whitney started asking for a commission during the 1930's, when there was virtually no contemporary art market, Mr. Anderson said.
There is a considerable body of people just now who are asking for some kind of clear and sensible engagement to be evidently disclosed in contemporary plays.
Houellebecq despises contemporary consumer society, and though he is not an enthusiast, merely a fatalist, about its possible Islamic replacement, he thinks that this is the apocalypse we've been asking for.
Three quarters have been refurbished to date (they're aiming to finish the rest by the end of the year) so make sure to ask for a "modern contemporary" room when booking.
The contribution of life sciences to the Knowledge-Based Bioeconomy (KBBE) asks for the transition of contemporary, gene-based biotechnology from being a trial-and-error endeavour to becoming an authentic branch of engineering.
Part of engaging people is asking contemporary questions, speaking in a contemporary idiom.
On hearing one of Sappho's poems sung, the sixth century BC Greek ruler Solon, a contemporary of hers, asked for someone to teach him the song "because I want to learn it and die".
It's a big ask for audiences to take a gamble on contemporary theatre.
