Sentence examples for rewriting a play from inspiring English sources

When he spends forty years writing, revising, and rewriting a play, one suspects that he doesn't quite have a handle on what he intends it to be.

She has rewritten a play without changing a word.

By Act II, Henry and Annie are living together, and Annie suggests that he rewrite a play that Brodie has been working on from prison.

Albee holds it a principle never to rewrite a play once he has lost the state of mind in which he wrote it, because he feels as though it had been written by somebody else.

Anderson freely admits that his project is imperfect: to truly succeed at replicating Shakespeare, a monkey would have to rewrite an entire play -- Anderson is just cobbling together nine-character combinations.

All over the country, Agatha Christie fans are facing a festive dilemma: how to make sure their relatives go to bed before 9pm on Boxing Day ahead of the first episode of The Witness for the Prosecution, the BBC's new version of Christie's brilliant short story that she later rewrote as a play.

In the late 1890's, Gillette rewrote a five-act play that Doyle had written, casting himself as Holmes.

But rewriting the play for the stage, and especially watching rehearsals of The Straits for the Edinburgh production, have made me realise that this story of Gibraltar, the Falklands and 1982 might open the door to a bigger story about Britain over the past 20 years or so.

David Garrick's acceptance of Irene for production prompted Johnson to finish rewriting the play.

But the bigger point is that once you start rewriting plays, even odd phrases from plays, for a particular audience, where do you stop?

But there's no debate about the identity of the first two authors who will be rewriting the plays as part of a major new project announced by Random House's Hogarth imprint.