Sentence examples for marvellous play from inspiring English sources

Marvellous play by Kenny Dalglish..."...

Laurence Olivier handed me the script in his office, saying: "Marvellous part, marvellous play".

Certainly Hiller's deft and beautiful faux-archive, From the Freud Museum, full of 'found' objects (water from the Lethe, a 'slap stick', snapshots of ectoplasm) paired with 'records' of rituals, makes marvellous play with the (Freudian) idea of collecting, collating and classifying the inexplicable, the incomparable, the unclassified.

Last week one of Bartlett's playwriting colleagues rushed up to me and said he too thought it was a marvellous play, and the brilliantly bright American students whom I teach yesterday declared it much the best of the 12 plays they had seen in London this autumn.

Based on a novel by Ingvar Ambjornsen, it has, it's true, been big in Norway, but in summary - this is a comedy about two men just out of mental hospital, adjusting to life and each other - it sounds like the soppiest kind of 'aren't the mad marvellous' play.

July 26 2009 July 26: The Si o Si Quartet, spotlights the compositions and marvellous playing of the Cuban drummer Dafnis Prieto.

From the US there was the mythic return of Terrence Malick with The Thin Red Line, the marvellous playing-against-type of David Lynch's The Straight Story, Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog (possibly the most accomplished film in his career), and Spike Lee's most underrated movie, Summer of Sam.

Whereas Bowker, in Marvellous, plays brilliantly with levels of reality, most of the formal innovations in TV have involved a tactic still often called, in a borrowing from theatre, "breaking the fourth wall" (where the actors acknowledge the presence of the audience), although it is more accurately a smashing of the screen.

That may sound strange, but it's accessible, marvellous fun to play.

One evening in 2008, after a concert in front of the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Rieu decided it would be marvellous to play in front of such a spectacular backdrop every night.

Although Wesker's plays may be animated by ideas, they are also remarkable for their capacity to arouse feeling: something evident from the early work right up to marvellous recent play Groupie (broadcast on Radio 4 and starring Barbara Windsor) about a mature Cockney woman's rediscovery of her passion.