Sentence examples for play verbatim from inspiring English sources

He's so familiar with Lear — he studied the text intensely as a young man — that in conversation, he effortlessly recites from the play verbatim.

But Ms. Blank said that the playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith, who has created plays from verbatim interviews, had been an influence on her since high school.

Instead of playing along verbatim to the DVD tracklist, songs were rearranged and reinterpreted into a completely unpredictable, chaotic set.

In Lines, he imagined theatre eating itself, penning a verbatim play about a verbatim play.

Robin Soans, whose plays include Talking to Terrorists, said that above all "the audience for a verbatim play will enter the theatre with the understanding that they're not going to be lied to".

Verbatim theatre has always been very strong on the idea of the "authentic", something I've always found odd as any verbatim play is as much an act of creative editing as a drama play conjured from its author's imagination.

Among other things, it can now play back improvisations verbatim.

In 2007, off-Broadway theatre New York Theatre Workshop approached us about creating a new verbatim play.

"At no point, to my knowledge, has this ever been described as a verbatim play".

Of course the actor's work has to be important in a verbatim play, as it is in any production.

As centenary commemorations continue in Belfast, Owen McCafferty's rigorous verbatim play provides an antidote to Titanic fatigue.