Sentence examples for theatre to write from inspiring English sources

By Sarah Larson November 7, 2016 The award-winning composer and lyricist Michael Friedman has used investigative theatre to write a series of songs about the 2016 election.

Invited by the Flemish Popular Theatre to write a play for performance during Holy Week, Ghelderode submitted Barabbas (written 1928); this unusual interpretation of Christ's last hours on Earth captivated both popular and highly sophisticated audiences.

In response to requests from Louis XIV's consort Madame de Maintenon, Racine returned to the theatre to write two religious plays Esther (first performed and published 1689) and Athalie for the girls at the school she cofounded in Saint-Cyr.

Straughan, who recently adapted John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy for the cinema, has been commissioned by the BBC and America's Masterpiece Theatre to write a television series based on Wolf Hall.

In 1938 Bulgakov was commissioned by the Moscow Art Theatre to write a play extolling the young Stalin: at the same time he was working on his most subversive book, the work usually considered (though not by me) his most important, The Master and Margarita.

When commissioned by London's Globe Theatre to write a play celebrating the 400th anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible, he looked to the beginning of the Church of England and imagined a new history for his country's church that placed Anne Boleyn, the harlot queen, at its very center.

After seeing the launch event Paterson approached her about writing a book for Picador, and her growing reputation as a performer also led to a commission from Paines Plough theatre company to write a play.

Despite his new focus on theatre, Lorca continued to write poetry.

hearing at a recital; and the Ballet Theatre commissioned him to write a ballet, a jazzy kind.

In 1782, as Mozart was making his way as a composer in Vienna, Count Orsini-Rosenberg, director of the Burgtheater (the imperial theatre), invited him to write an opera buffa.

So when Nicolas Kent, artistic director of the Tricycle Theatre, approached me to write a half-hour play as part of a season of work about the last 100 years of Afghan culture and history, my instinct was to run.