Sentence examples for common playwright from inspiring English sources

The simple fact is the earl could not be seen as a common playwright.

But this early effort makes many of the mistakes common to fledgling playwrights.

What's more, it is achieved with a well-tuned ear for archly self-conscious speech and without the creak of exposition common to young playwrights.

He makes me laugh by describing the common tendency in apprentice playwrights to write about ancient family secrets which are revealed 'four fifths through the play, often in a drunken confessional speech.' This is 'theatrically inert' he says.

By the way, did I mention that she also has a lot in common with a certain famous playwright?

These gaps are surprising because – in the era when Stoppard wrote Professional Foul and Hare followed with his own Bafta-winning Licking Hitler (1978) about a black propaganda unit in the second world war - it was common for the leading stage playwrights of the time to move between work for the National Theatre and RSC and for BBC and ITV.

Playwright Lee Hall has the common touch.

In "True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor," the playwright David Mamet takes this complaint one step further.

In common with that character, Mr. Havel the playwright stoically avoided despair, and in doing so compelled his audience into a compassionate complicity.

That playwright is Danny Mitarotondo of The Common Tongue theater company.

Still, the crossover of playwrights to screenwriters is increasingly common, if not essential, given the schism between paychecks.