Sentence examples for theatrical situation from inspiring English sources

Harry and the dads are important only as devices, which is a theatrical situation women have known for centuries.

In colors of bright yellow and snowy white, he has assembled a theatrical situation that includes a (yellow and white) Nazi flag painting, enlarged German-language stickers protesting nuclear power, a self-portrait as a Benedictine priest and an enlarged fake obituary for Caster Semenya, the track star whose biological femaleness has been doubted.

But that's true in any kind of theatrical situation...

"Steven feels strongly about the difference between the streaming and theatrical situation," a spokesperson for Spielberg's production company, Amblin Entertainment, said in February.

Instead, this prolific composer typically satisfies his need for novelty in a new work's environment, and that can be an unusual theatrical situation, a poetic inspiration, a structuring device or, perhaps, an intriguing instrumental situation.

I am a bit wary of "pscyhologizing," [which is] one step away from "pathologizing" the camp impulse in gay men.... [O]ne can analyze this attraction [to female icons] in terms of what these figures represent: a highly stylized femininity and toughness combined with abjection, a kind of overexposed and highly theatrical situation of longing and self-making.

Mr. Safer is a smart, playful artist, and his best works marry a muscular physicality with absurdly heightened theatrical situations.

Troupers, they carried on with the same elegance and panache, even in theatrical situations that were so confining they could not do their best.

At one point, Mr. Segal realized he didn't have to make everything with his own hands but could work as an assemblagist, arranging things he had found into theatrical situations.

The habit of not reading scripts has, over the years, landed Dench in a few sticky theatrical situations, such as Peter Shaffer's turgid "The Gift of the Gorgon," in 1992.

Like Cage, he used a combination of choice and accident as a way of creating nonverbal, quasi-theatrical situations in which performers functioned as kinetic objects, the role of the single artist-genius was de-emphasized, audience members became creative participants, and no clear distinction was made between everyday actions and ritual.