Sentence examples for devise plays from inspiring English sources

Coaches, of course, will devise plays to attack a gimpy defensive back or sore-shouldered lineman.

Shaughnessy preferred to devise plays late at night, between midnight and dawn, while his household slept.

His 1999 memoir, written with Gene Wojciechowski and telling how he devised plays at a restaurant before the N.C.A.A. final against Kentucky, was titled "My Life on a Napkin".

There seem to be more and more theatre companies devising plays for a single audience member to watch at a time.

By the end of the week we were confidently devising plays and soap operas to highlight scientific "hot topics".

By 1967, theaters such as The Living Theatre, La MaMa E.T.C. and The Open Theatre were actively devising plays from improvisational scenes crafted in the rehearsal space, rather than following a traditional script.

It's not, it's a devised play.

In its finale, this elegantly devised play somehow contrives to have Jo and Charlie, both in Mae's drag, walk hand in hand into the sunset.

I admit theatre is rapidly changing, but passionate advocates of the devised play assume that democratising the work process automatically leads to work of radical intent.

"Bean's framing device," you explain as the Guardian does, "is a group of asylum seekers putting on a devised play about four waves of immigration" as they wait to learn whether they can stay in the UK.

I also hope the book emerges as a celebration of the imaginative power of the individual dramatist- the true starting point of the theatrical process - at a time when his or her authority is under serious threat from the pseudo-democracy and improvised mish-mash of the devised play.