Sentence examples for bleak play from inspiring English sources

The title's bleak play on words is almost inaudible beneath the film's thundering detonation.

In an otherwise bleak play, the moments of getting high are those where Ms. Orlandersmith's writing soars.

I said: "Neil, it's a very bleak play, not what you call a happy night out at the theatre".

In a letter of 1976, for example, Beckett notes of the short, bleak play Footfalls that it is "indeed a strange affair, perhaps unduly elliptic & elusive.

Back in the summer, when the sun never set on the grumbling of West Ham fans about the their team's bleak play under Allardyce, few would have foreseen such a scenario.

And yet the experimental impulse has also resulted in works of genuine brilliance, like last year's Tony winner, "Spring Awakening," adapted from Frank Wedekind's bleak play about suicidal angst and sexual exploration among German teenagers of the late 19th century.

Set amid the Reaganomics of the 1980s, "Hedley" is one of the cycle's bleaker plays, showing the devastation caused by institutional racism and the lingering impact of a government's abandonment of a community.

Instead, it gives a moving, resonant ending to a bleak midwinter play.

It is not all bleak: the play studies a marriage seemingly sustained by booze – yet which somehow works.

Mr. Hurt, who stars in the new movie "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," has practically made this bleak little play into an unlikely party piece brought out for festive show.

"Adding Machine," the musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's bleak 1923 play, presented in New York by the Next Theater Company, is to close on July 20 after 16 previews and 149 regular performances at the Minetta Lane Theater.