Sentence examples for theatrical frame from inspiring English sources

The theatrical frame is lively, and the two main roles are good, with every chance of getting better if the script evolves.

Only Levin's story brought them outside the theatrical frame and into the "real" world, which meant shooting some wintry scenes on location in Russia.

What a director does have to do though is create a theatrical frame that allows the audience to enjoy being conspirators in the whole conceit.

Their condensed version of play's story highlighted Wilder's decision to reveal the theatrical frame that surrounds the play both through the character of the Stage Manager and the removal of "realistic" representations of the town's settings (home, business, cemetery).

The Flea Theater's These Seven Sicknesses is a night at the theater that leaves the viewer with a rich tapestry of experiences, on both sides of the theatrical frame.

But this piece has a more sophisticated theatrical framing.

Theatrical framing devices are everywhere, from book bindings to doll's houses to miniature stages and fluctuating screen ratios, with chapter headings a recurrent feature.

Reinhardt had seen in Munch's paintings a theatrical framing – the pictures often feature people facing out of rooms towards the viewer, like actors on stage – and invited the artist to design a Munich production of Ibsen's Ghosts and, when that was successful, a Hedda Gabler.

It fits neatly into the current explosion of spoken-word performance, yet at the same time – even when Brett Bailey is sitting alone at a desk reading from a script, as he does for most of the show – you can sense the strong theatrical framing of the piece.

Perhaps sensing that this confection would be insufficient to float a full-scale Broadway musical (imagine!), the show's authors slipped it into a meta-theatrical frame.

Even today some artists make compelling work that operates outside a conventional theatrical time frame.