Sentence examples for shrewd stage from inspiring English sources
If Mark Thompson's shrewd stage design doesn't quite follow Williams's symbolic directions, it is eloquent in its ability to capture the deeper implications of Serafina's hysteria.
But here, in a shrewd stage production for the Incubator Arts Project, the director Rafael Gallegos deftly homed in on aspects of Mr. Marks's piece that could be refined and clarified within a margarine-and-lavender-colored school-gym set equipped with only the barest of props.
In a shrewd stage direction to his play, Osborne suggests that Holyoake's stammer "must be emphasised sufficiently to appear painful when it happens, but obviously it must be exploited sparingly, and its later dramatic effectiveness must depend upon the nicest discretion of the actor and director".
Wertz has made a name for himself as a shrewd early stage investor with his own Version One Ventures early stage fund, which he operates from his home base in Vancouver.
His docu-style movie The Company, about a ballet troupe, showed a shrewd sense of how stage groups work.
He was a staged man, shrewd, purposeful, and effective.
(Mao's actress wife co-orchestrated the Cultural Revolution, terrorizing a generation of Chinese; a century earlier, Dowager Cixi, a shrewd and ruthless concubine, staged a coup and slaughtered some half dozen chancellors in the pursuit of power).
In April of 1990, he announced to the Wall Street Journal a plan to sell certain assets and become the "king of cash," a stratagem that would supposedly set the stage for a shrewd campaign of bargain hunting.
Mr. Pereira, who now heads the Salzburg Festival, is a shrewd opera impresario, while Mr. Homoki, an important stage director, comes from the artistic side.
On stage, she was witty, candid, shrewd - and never more so than when a woman in the audience asked if she felt dissatisfied with any of her books.
Within a year Ferdinand was playing for England but he never forgot Machin's shrewd coaching or kind words at a vulnerable stage in both his career and his life off the field.
