Sentence examples for problem play from inspiring English sources

Not for nothing is this comedy characterized as a problem play.

We may be seeing this problem play out with Newt Gingrich.

"Hannah Free" is what used to be called a problem play.

Don't expect the grim worthiness of a "problem play"; expect unpredictable events, relationships and humor.

The movie is exuberant, strapping and obvious -- a problem play suffering from a steroid overdose (Mitchell).

The resourceful Pearl Theater tries to provide an answer to this problem play (2 30).

And Dennis Kelly's new English version ensures this moral problem play ends on a sharply bleak note.

Kushner has not written a gay problem play, or agitprop Storm and Schlong; nor is he pleading for tolerance.

A more serious type of drama, developed by Alexandre Dumas fils, was the problem play (sometimes called a thesis play), in which social problems were debated.

The problem play reached its maturity in the works of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, whose works had artistic merit as well as topical relevance.

Dr. Franklin, whose department oversees the state's workers' compensation program, said he had long seen the problem play out among claimants.