Sentence examples for refusing to stage from inspiring English sources

Refusing to stage plays from the classic repertoire (King Lear excepted) because they leave audiences "happily sedated".

Perhaps most important, though, is the fact that we're hosting the whole shebang both this year and next - what's to stop us from flouncing off in a huff and refusing to stage the 2008 show if nobody votes for us?

By refusing to stage each group in a geographical cluster, fans will be forced to pore over internal flight timetables and jump on to the website to try to book seats on planes them the minute the draw is made on 6 December.

For Wesker, there followed both bad decisions (in 1972, he sued the RSC for refusing to stage The Journalists, a play it had commissioned) and bad luck (his 1976 play, Shylock, closed in New York before it had even opened after its star, Zero Mostel, dropped dead).

In 2001, he made headlines again when he castigated the National Theatre's Trevor Nunn for refusing to stage his new play, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, which mocked the pathology of Irish republican extremism in scenes that included a man having his toenails pulled out, several blindings, a corpse being chopped up and a cat being painted.

Mr Ahmadinejad could raise the stakes and refuse to stage the poll.

Some shows went ahead at two smaller venues, but the National Theatre refused to stage the scheduled performances.

Many distinguished directors openly declare their disdain for new plays and refuse to stage them, while writers routinely complain they are excluded from the theatrical process.

Later that same year, he lambasted London's "gutless and lily-livered" producers, who initially refused to stage his play, for fear that their theatres would be targeted by actual Irish terrorists.

With "The Trojans," a five-act grand opera based on the Aeneid, he aimed to resurrect the high-flown lyric tragedy of Gluck; when the Paris Opera refused to stage the work, in 1863, Berlioz fell into a black funk that lasted until his death six years later.

In the late nineteen-nineties, the Druid, the Royal Court, and the National — theatres that had produced his work in the past — refused to stage "The Lieutenant of Inishmore," whose graphic depiction of torture, murder, and dismemberment, even within the framework of a madcap farce, was deemed both offensive and politically insensitive.