Sentence examples for stage conventions from inspiring English sources

Royer was also a fully formed composer: comfortable with stage conventions and capable of flourishes of his own.

A delightful satire on stage conventions, The Critic has always been thought much funnier than its model, The Rehearsal (1671) by George Villiers.

Given her rigorous attempt to rid productions of traditional stage conventions, it is no surprise that Mitchell pauses when I ask what theatre she likes to go to.

What she does is seen by some as an affront to an entire tradition of British theatre-making, with its time-honoured stage conventions and performance practice.

He is not so much making fun of the movie as making fun with it — forcing us, and the dozens of characters, to notice all the film and stage conventions that we, and the characters, normally ignore.

He's contrived something like an inanimate slapstick, reduced to the simplest kind of pratfall, while in the strict timing and meditative shadows there are echoes of Beckett's play Catastrophe, itself a semi-sculptural reflection on stage conventions.

The pair essay occasional, Right Size-style mischief with stage convention (with help from Nigel Piper's score), but seem to be performing in a low gear: this has the feel of a work- in-progress.

Disowned by the founders of the Harlem Renaissance for its association with the shambling, watermelon-eating mockeries of American stage convention, dialect remained an irresistible if highly self-conscious resource for writers, from Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown to Wright himself (whose use of the idiom Hurston gleefully dismissed as tone deaf).

Actors impersonating children is a stage convention that I tend to endure with gritted teeth and a pained smile, but Ms. Woodard does it more fluidly and naturally than most; she has a whole brood of inner children panting to get out, it would seem.

It dispenses with staging conventions.

Spanish staging conventions, like those of the Elizabethan theatre, tended to be simple.