Sentence examples for dramas cast from inspiring English sources

Were poor El Pollo able to afford to stumble into the Colón today, he could be forgiven for thinking the melodrama he witnessed is for real: as the Teatro Colón's situation demonstrates, opera is often less convoluted and surprising than the dramas cast offstage.

It was a different era then, a time when intimate survival dramas ("Cast Away") and low-concept character comedies ("Meet the Parents") could outperform something as mighty as "X-Men".

When predicting the quality of new TV dramas, casting is usually key, but Hostages, which began on Saturday on Channel 4, sent out mixed signals.

(5) JC Chandor's acclaimed 2011 drama cast Bettany as an implacable Wall Street trader.

Boardwalk Empire, a Prohibition-era gangster series, also won for overall TV drama cast performance.

Set in Belfast during the Troubles, Graeme Reid's drama cast Branagh as its troubled title character - a role he would reprise in two follow-up plays.

As part of the "ER" medical drama cast, she won a supporting actress Emmy in 1995.

The ABC fantasy drama cast its first two live-action characters from Disney's "Frozen" earlier this week, with "Greek" alum Scott Michael Fost as Kristoff and newcomer Elizabeth Lail as Anna.

As with the characters played by Tom Hanks in the desert-island drama "Cast Away" and Guy Pearce in the neo-noir celluloid thriller "Memento," our contemporary fear is not simply of disappearing.

This intelligent, sensitive drama casts her as Nathalie, a spirited philosophy teacher, daughter, mother and wife – roles that all become unstable before the summer's up, testing her long-held principles.

Laura Barton reports Joanna Lumley (I don't think I'm much of a god, G2, 31 August) as dismissing ageism in drama casting and arguing "that women of her age shouldn't get the roles of a 23-year-old". No older actor has any desire to play a young role: they simply want to play vital, intelligent women of their own age.