There is also an insistent, not to say overly persistent, theme running through all three plays: namely, we need to be true to ourselves, and others, in declaring our sexual preferences.
"Red," the highbrow hot ticket of the spring season, also exposes a flaw that besets some two-character plays — namely that they can resemble solo plays with an animated prop on hand to act as verbal stimulant to the central figure, allowing him or her to orate without eschewing realism and simply holding forth to the audience.
Maeterlinck's text has often been cited as providing Bartók's librettist Béla Balasz with many of the images for Bluebeard's Castle itself, but in choosing Judith as his heroine's name Balasz brings another set of associations into play, namely the biblical character of Judith, who seduced Holofernes before killing him.
There being just the one rule — "No Diving" — there was just one game to play, namely, "Dive Into the Swimming Pool as Many Times as Possible".
Iommi's lack of fingertips led to other crucial mutations in his guitar playing – namely the use of thinner, detuned strings.
Sure, Mr. Ayckbourn takes Wales as his locale, not New York, and allows for a play-within-a-play, namely John Gay's 1728 "The Beggar's Opera".
But above all, The Tempest is a play about a producer/director/playwright putting on a play – namely, the action that takes place on the island, complete with special effects – that contains another play, the masque of the goddesses.
Some South Texans wonder if a religious element is also at play — namely, that highly Roman Catholic Latinos are less likely to suggest hospice or pulling the plug when long-shot, life-extending interventions are available.
Still thinking about debt; and it seems to me that there's an important aspect of the story that isn't getting any play, namely, the extent to which US debt has in effect been issued to buy assets overseas.
Fair play positions are calculated in five categories: the number of red and yellow cards clocked up; positive play (namely a lack of time wasting and general attacking intent); respect towards opponents; respect towards referees; and the behaviour of team officials.
Devotees of Mr. Sorkin's television series will be able to discern the author's signature in the new play, namely the kind of dialogue that presumes both the performers and the audience can handle ideas, shrewdness, irony, wit and learning.
