Sentence examples for play survive from inspiring English sources

Where several versions of a play survive, each differs from the other.

But Pinero did the "woman with a past" drama better than Wilde and the play survives largely as a vehicle for two remarkable performers.

But the play survives through its detailed picture of the myopic obsessiveness of actors for whom the stage is a self-enclosed world.

The power of this well-made, unsubtle play survives even though police procedural dramas on television have made the setting more than familiar.

Oh, David, where is thy sting?" Michael Billington, The Guardian: "Mamet's play survives so well because the action effortlessly implies something far larger than itself".

The play survived a two-minute video review that confirmed Crosby's stick was under the crossbar when he touched it.

But despite the ignominy of a week's run, the play survived as a cult by means of pirated discs and, notably, because the cop was played by Elliot Gould, who was then married to Barbra Striesand.

Yes, these plays survive across time.

Thirteen more plays survive in which Dekker collaborated with such figures as Thomas Middleton, John Webster, Philip Massinger, John Ford, and William Rowley.

I have always found it curious that no new plays survive from his 30-year period in office.

According to a somewhat wistful Wright: "It's not impossible that other plays survive in libraries – miscatalogued, perhaps".