Sentence examples for based on the fable from inspiring English sources

COMMUNITY THEATER "The Princess and the Pea," play based on the fable by Hans Christian Andersen; Birmingham Children's Theater.

His last opera, based on the fable of Turandot as told in the play Turandot by the 18th-century Italian dramatist Carlo Gozzi, is the only Italian opera in the Impressionistic style.

(When this reporter was in second grade in 1953, he was chosen to play young George in a skit based on the fable about Washington chopping down the cherry tree.

In his 1977 novel "The Flounder", based on the fable of the insatiable fisherman's wife and written at the height of the women's movement, three feminists angling in Lübeck Bay catch a fish who declares himself tired of serving men and asks to serve women.

The Wolf Among Us is just as good though: a no-holds-barred adventure based on the Fables comic books (which I'd thoroughly recommend too).

iPhone / iPad Just ahead of releasing its Walking Dead sequel (see below) developer Telltale Games surprised us with this: based on the Fables graphic novels, you play Bigby, the Big Bad Wolf of fairytale legend reinvented as a sheriff.

Campaigners are calling for the title role, based on the Chinese fable of female soldier Fa Mulan who dressed as a man in order to take up arms against Genghis Khan, to be played by an actor of Asian extraction.

(20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Blu-ray $99.98, not rated) ALSO OUT THIS WEEK DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX Based on the environmental fable, this computer-animated film features Danny DeVito as the voice of a tiny orange creature who speaks on behalf of endangered trees.

The series is loosely based on the Chinese fable Red Thread of Fate, which suggests an invisible thread is connected to those destined to meet.

The prospect is chilling for an opera based on the duke of fable who murdered his wives and stashed their bodies in his castle basement.

In 1944 Orwell finished Animal Farm, a political fable based on the story of the Russian Revolution and its betrayal by Joseph Stalin.