Sentence examples for lesser plays from inspiring English sources

In "Speed-the-Plow," one of his lesser plays, Mamet maintains his distance from his characters, mocking their silly needs and their foolish talk.

But by showing so many lesser plays done less well than they might have been, the festival also exposed his limits.

And, where Bill Nighy's charisma was dominant in New York, Anton Lesser plays Oliver as a testy interrogator, delighted to do battle with his son's lover, but reveals his solitary vulnerability.

Daniel Sullivan's striking direction, combined with the talents of Cherry Jones and Gabriel Byrne, who have also been nominated for "best actor", brings a new relevance to what has often been seen as one of O'Neill's lesser plays.

By Hilton Als "After the Fall" (a Roundabout production at the American Airlines Theatre) is Arthur Miller's Eugene O'Neill moment — not the O'Neill of the lesser plays, "Dynamo," "The Rope," and so on, but the turgid, self-consciously grand O'Neill of "Strange Interlude," with a little of "Mourning Becomes Electra" 's fraught familial pull thrown in for good measure.

"After the Fall" (a Roundabout production at the American Airlines Theatre) is Arthur Miller's Eugene O'Neill moment — not the O'Neill of the lesser plays, "Dynamo," "The Rope," and so on, but the turgid, self-consciously grand O'Neill of "Strange Interlude," with a little of "Mourning Becomes Electra" 's fraught familial pull thrown in for good measure.

So has a case example of how a lesser play can be perfectly played.

In a lesser play these descriptions would be the main point.

Even if Pericles is the lesser play, it shares the same preoccupation with time.

That followed her dramatic success in a considerably lesser play, "Black Girl," Off Off Broadway in 1995.

Paolo Aralla created the sound design and composed the music, which includes Erin Lesser playing a contrabass flute, as well as atmospheric echoes of wind and whispers.