Sentence examples for established the play from inspiring English sources
Once that's established, the play turns into a debate about what to do with this renegade son of Joseph and Mary.
The trade-off here is that with the lighthearted tone so well established, the play's abrupt shift toward tragedy makes the gears of the production grind audibly.
But as Brooks Atkinson observed in The New York Times in his review of the celebrated 1956 production that established the play's reputation as an O'Neill masterwork, its very excesses may account for the "monumental feeling of doom that it pulls down over the heads of the audience".
(Harry Feiner has done a more than credible job of establishing the play's order and disorder).
Its duality instantly establishes the play's underlying dynamic between authority and anarchy.
On one level, this act establishes the play's structure of interweaving lives and its theme of imperfect human connections.
Cully Long's versatile costumes and Michael Arthur's colorful set help establish the play's overlapping worlds.
A rubble of doors and furniture topped by a piano pours onto stage behind the haggard room of a tenement house – a neat way to establish the play's fixation on life's imbalances (wealth/poverty, women/men, melancholy/laughter).
Thomas is in love with Kit but, constrained by breeding and social expectation, is seeking a wife; their playlong faceoff -- between one man's passion and ultimate self-immolation and the other's stifling propriety -- establishes the play's thematic conflict.
This ingeniously establishes the play's backdrop of alienation and loneliness, which are Hunter's recurring themes.
But no event was more significant, or more fruitful, for jazz's Latin tinge than Dizzy Gillespie's hiring, in 1947, of the great Cuban conga drummer Luciano (Chano) Pozo, a fiery, electrifying performer and composer who was, arguably, more responsible than any other musician for establishing the playing field for Afro-Cuban jazz and, later, what became known as salsa.
