Sentence examples for reduce the play from inspiring English sources

Logan's compression of the text, as performed, doesn't merely reduce the play, it diminishes it; the movie leaves the impression of a lack of confidence in language itself, whether Shakespearean or otherwise.

Reading one of his scripts afterwards vastly enhances the experience of seeing the play; but studying one of hers, for the reader, can reduce the play's impact.

The 55-year-old had to dramatically reduce the playing budget following Cardiff's relegation from the Premier League the previous season, and the Bluebirds finished 11th in the Championship.

It had already been announced that midfielder Ian Black would not be offered a new contract with Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov determined to reduce the playing budget.

"The marketplace has changed significantly in favour of clubs, as opposed to players and their agents, and we fully expect to reduce the playing staff salary bill towards recommended industry standard levels," Hearts' statement added.

Bond Street's version of "Romeo and Juliet" reduces the play's multiple themes to a simple core.

What is disturbing about the current controversy is how entirely it reduces the play to an empty political symbol.

Whether the playwright truly doesn't know that or not, she clearly wants to avoid reducing the play to any one simple interpretation.

Mr. Kahn has trimmed O'Neill's text with a skilled hand, reducing the play's running time by perhaps as much as an hour.

This is surely not accidental, and the absence from the playing field of this wily operator distinctly reduces the play's deep tincture of skepticism, and cheats us of one of its liveliest characters, too.

In translating Shakespeare's "Hamlet" into an elemental fable that would transcend cultural barriers, Mr. Brook has snipped away at and rearranged the text while reducing the play's cast to a spartan eight members.