Sentence examples for based on two plays from inspiring English sources
Based on two plays by Frank Wedekind, it has its glorious and terrible heroine rampage through life, adored, greedy, manipulative, passing through lovers and husbands – to a score of frenetic and sumptuous beauty and strangeness.
Yet, even here, afterlives also bring the ghosts of political conflict — his movie is based on two plays by Jean Anouilh ("Eurydice," produced in 1941, during the German Occupation, and "Dear Antoine," from 1969), a playwright whose reputation has been shadowed by his unencumbered wartime activity.
With so little means to create cinema, Kurosawa seems to have decided to create theater instead: based on two traditional plays about a feudal lord who must cross into enemy territory to escape his treacherous brother, the film is played with the stylized acting and musical commentary of a Noh drama.
"Dreams About Japan" is a lively bit of japonaiserie, based on four Kabuki plays.
Verdi wrote operas based on three Shakespeare plays, and hankered after setting King Lear, though famously he never did.
It's a curious project based on four early plays by Eugene O'Neill.
Under more reasonable assumptions, a Playpump could theoretically provide the bare minimum water requirements for about 200 people a day based on two hours' constant "play" every day – considerably less than its claimed potential.
"The play is based on two of my books, the 30th Anniversary Edition of 'Mommie Dearest' and my third book, 'Survivor' -- both of which were bestsellers.
The play Longing, is based on two short stories by Chekhov, opens at the Hampstead Theatre in London this evening.
Each costs £399pp, based on two sharing.
