Sentence examples for start of a play from inspiring English sources

For the designer Rodolfo Paglialunga, it was the start of a play on knots and ties that turned silk threads into a lattice of a dress.

Modern theatre audiences have become accustomed to being told to switch off their mobile phones before the start of a play; but those attending White Rabbit, Red Rabbit – a new work from 29-year-old Iranian writer Nassim Soleimanpour at the Gate theatre in London – are specifically instructed to keep their phones turned on.

He cared so deeply about animals that once, when he was playing golf in South Dakota, and his ball conked a sheep on the head, he drove the sheep seventeen miles to the nearest vet, delaying the start of a play he was appearing in that night.

As if I was just a spectator watching a group of actors silently taking up their positions at the start of a play: the painter behind his easel; the child princess centre stage, the maids of honour alongside her; the shadowy couple behind; the dwarf and midget in front; the mastiff beside them; the lone courtier in the distance, posed on a flight of steps.

Note that it's generally considered a bad idea for the point guard to stop dribbling the ball before he needs to (for instance, at the very start of a play).

It's a wearying prospect to be handed at the start of a conventional play; I girded myself for a long Friday evening at the Bushwick Starr, where the popular Brooklyn troupe is enjoying a sold-out run.

By the time he reached the majors, for the start of a brief playing career in 1969, there was one layer of playoffs before the World Series.

The pair were in no hurry at the start of play as Burns played out a maiden over from Mark Footitt, but Ansari collected a couple of boundaries off the same bowler before they reached the target.

Every once and a while when the lights come up at the start of intermission of a play, I am confused because I feel like I haven't been sitting in the dark all that long.

An hour before the start of play a small band of protesters gathered outside the Hobbs Gates.

At the start of the play, a scrim separates the audience from the stage; on the screen, typewritten letters glow.