Sentence examples for based a play on from inspiring English sources
But this is the first time that Mr. Foreman has based a play on a historical figure.
His place in literary history was enhanced in the 19th century by Portuguese writer João Baptista de Almeida Garrett, who based a play on Sousa's life.
At the Yale School of Drama, in the late nineteen-eighties, she based a play on a news item about a Brazilian town where locals had found a glowing capsule thought to have supernatural powers; it turned out to contain radioactive waste, and more than a hundred thousand people were contaminated.
What a brilliant, brilliant character to base a play on.
Basing a play on a night like this dictates a certain strain of predictable theater jokes, and this production is not derelict in its duty.
It was a first principle of dramatic writing, said Zeami, to base a play on a well-known incident in which the central character was familiar to the audience.
Electrovaya, based in Toronto, is a play on smaller, busier cellphones.
Above all, Chelsea's play is based a lot on wide men.
Based on a play by Garson Kanin, it followed the affair between a musician and a dancer.
TWENTIETH CENTURY By Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, based on a play by Charles Bruce Millholland, in a new adaptation by Ken Ludwig.
