Sentence examples for confronting audiences from inspiring English sources

Not brave in the usual 20th-century-art sense, as in confronting audiences with the unfamiliar, but brave as in consistently going simple and deep, almost embarrassingly so, at the cost of concision or wit.

If Larry Kramer's blistering play, "The Normal Heart," now confronting audiences on Broadway, represents the angry breakthrough politics of the early AIDS epidemic, the politics of gay marriage is couples living their lives as neighbors, parents, Little League coaches, colleagues, car-poolers.

Forced to jettison a master of disquieting stage menace, Harold Pinter, when its revival of "The Birthday Party" broke an axle or two during rehearsals last month, the Geffen Playhouse is filling the hole in its season with "Reasons to Be Pretty" by Neil LaBute, another playwright whose hallmark is confronting audiences with some of humanity's darker habits and impulses.

In 2013, a band composed of men in their forties and fifties is one of the most fearsome working live bands, with a healthy following of twenty-somethings who weren't alive when Gira was jumping off the stage and confronting audience members.

Instead, he and his set designer, Scott Pask, confront audiences with a kind of gritty abstraction of coastal life.

But then again, I didn't get The Office on my very first viewing, a series that confronted audiences with a similarly unlabelled mix of empathy and mockery.

"Edward confronts audiences head-on with death here, in a way that may have been ahead of its time in 1980," Mr. Houghton said.

In the nineteen-fifties, Dimitri Mitropoulos confronted audiences with twelve-tone music and had them dancing in the aisles, albeit toward the exits.

This, after all, is a man whose self-declared mission is to confront audiences with "the crisis in the human species".

While his setting here is small-town New Hampshire, his interest in Latin American themes remains evident as he confronts audiences with the complex dynamics of a dictatorship by shifting the regime closer to home.

"I thought it was a scam at first," said Spallen, whose plays include Strandline, and who was cited for dramas that "confront audiences with all the awkward questions, reminding us with thrilling proof that theatre can still be urgently necessary".