Sentence examples for theatre characters from inspiring English sources

In compelling theatre, characters go through a surprising change and, in compressed time, we witness them becoming altered people.

I always bring out the theatre characters.

Jean-Jacques Aillagon, who served as France's culture minister under Chirac, explained that the late 18th-century masks represent a Japanese theatre character, which was always carved with similar features.

I only got my first West End theatre part because the character had to fall down a flight of stairs every performance.

Here, rather than a theatre, the characters come to a TV editing suite, in which a drama-documentary about assisted suicide is in post-production.

"That's why I love the theatre," a character says in "Edmond".

She contrasted design for ballet ("about the body in movement, no voice") and for theatre ("all character, and about what a director wants to do").

In John, her new play at the Signature Theatre, one character is blind and another wears glasses with a very strong prescription, but they both benefit from Baker's excellent vision.

Here Mee takes to task our notions of gender, as well as the tendency in popular theatre to view characters not as complicated beings but as cardboard props.

"It was working in Brixton market, that was my real first understanding of theatre, just the characters you met and stories you heard".

Part of the reason is convention: plays tend to take advantage of the emotional claustrophobia of the theatre, trapping the characters and the audience within tight limits of time and place.