Sentence examples for dramatic festivals from inspiring English sources

Roman dramatic festivals featured elaborate, three-story sets and made use of much more sophisticated stage machinery.

During his life, his success was limited; although he wrote more than 100 plays, he won only eight victories at Athenian dramatic festivals.

Finally, and related to the last, it was a cultural unit: at the deme festival for Dionysus (the "Rural Dionysia") there were dramatic festivals, subsidized, as inscriptions show, by wealthy demesmen and sometimes even by foreigners (one wealthy Theban is attested).

As he intriguingly puts it: "Socrates is describing himself [at Rep. 604e], which is to say that Plato, who never competed as a tragedian in the dramatic festivals of Athens, is describing the subject of his own dramatic imitations".

In 534 bce at Athens's first dramatic festival, one of Thespis's tragedies won the prize.

Great Dionysia, also called City Dionysia, ancient dramatic festival in which tragedy, comedy, and satyric drama originated; it was held in Athens in March in honour of Dionysus, the god of wine.

Getting to Britain's most dramatic festival site is easier than ever this year – RockNess has chartered a special train that runs from London Euston to Inverness via Birmingham, Derby, York and Newcastle on the Thursday before the festival.

Together, he and Davis put on a large musical and dramatic festival in Melodeon Hall which proved to be very successful.

After national interest in Ellington revived in 1956 because of a dramatic Newport Festival performance, he exploited the momentum, becoming a great record-maker again.

RUTGERS NEW JERSEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL The festival festival features dramatic and documentary films from America, Israel, Germany, France and Britain.

Bujalski's new film "Results" sees him now stepping up to the main U.S. Dramatic Competition, the festival's brightest spotlight.