Sentence examples for device of actors from inspiring English sources

"The modern framework makes funny and at times poignant connections with the original material, while allowing the film to make an affectionate nod towards the traditional theatrical device of actors doubling and even tripling in different roles.

Although the role was yet another criminal – homicidal song-sheet salesman Arthur Parker – this one was original rather than stereotypical, as the show featured Potter's daring device of actors miming to popular songs on the soundtrack: a premonition of the later karaoke craze, although intended by the writer as a metaphor for lying and hidden inner lives.

With the boldly simplistic device of the actors performing while holding picture and window frames in front of their faces, the long-held belief of many people that the Rosenbergs were framed is treated as a given, although recent revelations have almost certainly established that Mr. Rosenberg was guilty.

Although the device of using two actors in some roles is obviously determined by the presence of hearing-impaired actors in a musical, in the case of Pippin it is a trenchant embodiment of the character's inability to settle on a fixed self, to determine who he really wants to be.

The study and generation of network workload is a moving target, both in terms of actors (devices, access networks, protocols, applications, services) and in terms of case studies (the interest expands from performance analysis to topics like network neutrality and security).

Case stories are selected in which "people strive to configure space and time, deploy cohesive devices, and reveal identity of actors and relatedness of actions across scenes.

While Bartlett's production captures the work's meta-theatricality, his device of having the three actors swap roles nightly pays limited dividends.

The Wachowskis-directed film took some flak for the device of casting the same actors as different races and genders.

He became preoccupied with the idea of a device that could transcribe and preserve the voices of actors and musicians for posterity.

Framed by this distancing device and conjured up by his reminiscences are a trio of actors that are as magnetic as any in the old Bergman repertory.

In the show's cleverest device, the actors intermittently engage in dialogue with videos of themselves which were recorded when they were even younger.