Sentence examples for gripping play from inspiring English sources
His brainy, preposterous, and intermittently gripping play hopscotches adroitly from D.C. to Rome to Damascus.
But the real success of this continually gripping play is that it turns pastiche into a form of criticism.
I recently saw a gripping play about the life of ex-England cricketer Colin Milburn, who died an early death mired in depression and alcoholism.
Even his gripping play The Chase (1952), an engaging anti-western in which the sheriff wants to avoid killing an escaped prisoner, lasted only a month on stage.
But this is still a rich, intellectually gripping play that gains immeasurably in London from the balance between the two performances.
It remains, with "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1984), Mr. Mamet's most affecting and gripping play, finding far-reaching depths of humor, pathos and tension in the inept plans of three small-time criminals to steal a coin collection.
Mr. Gilbert drew gripping playing from the Philharmonic in the opening Allegro maestoso, which hovers between a fitful funeral march and an elaborate sonata-allegro movement.
The most energetic is Bullet Boy, a gripping drama played out on an east London estate and hinging on the power of the gun.
But this is a brave, gripping, provocative play – directed by Dominic Cooke with spirit.
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first orbit around the earth, Rona Munro's Little Eagles is a gripping new play charting the space race from the perspective of the Soviet Union.
When Death Grips play at Webster Hall on Aug. 7, it will be entirely worth your while.
