Sentence examples for ghost play from inspiring English sources

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"The Glass Menagerie" is a ghost play; everyone, including Tom Wingfield, the wandering narrator, is persecuted by memory.

In a sense, "Stage Kiss" is a ghost play in which both the play-within-the-play and the rebarbative lovers keep the past present.

Coward's enduring comic ghost play explores connections between memory, mourning, and the erotic; Blakemore's production teased out all the class humor in this comedy of bad manners where the dead's aggression toward the living confronts the aggression of the living toward the dead.

February 26 2009 July 19 200909 Noël Coward's brilliant ghost play, from 1941, explores the connections between memory, mourning, and the erotic; it's a comic demonstration in which the dead's aggression toward the living confronts the aggression of the living toward the dead.

Written in seven days, in reaction to the "pitiful sight" of London's wartime devastation it played 1,998 performances, one of the longest runs in London theatre history Coward's brilliant ghost play explores the connections between memory, mourning, and the erotic; it's a comic demonstration in which the dead's aggression toward the living confronts the aggression of the living toward the dead.

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The kabuki theatres run their traditional ghost plays.

(I can report, in turn, that I never saw the ghost played with such an electrifying sense of reality).

Comparisons with his sitcom Coupling are inevitable when we reach the farcical centrepiece, in which the two-way love triangle between Grant/Lucy/The Ghost plays out.

And though he stays around to appear in numerous episodes, he is one tough ghost, played with an edge by Richard Jenkins.

The ballroom crowd of roughly 1,500 roared as Mr. Black did battle with a wobbly, inaudible on-screen ghost, played by Jason Ritter, and promised to protect a couple of deliberately dizzy blondes, Amanda Lund and Maria Blasucci, who play clueless ghost busters in the new Web series.

Though technically a member of the undead, Chuck is not in the least bit morbid or morose — she is jaunty and mischievous in the manner of Marion Kerby, the ghost played by Constance Bennett in the 1937 movie "Topper".

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