Sentence examples for unknown playwright from inspiring English sources

Is this a relatively unknown playwright?

It was such a surprise to everybody – this relatively unknown playwright bursting on to the scene.

Ms. Cohn was a student at the Sorbonne in 1953 when she discovered Beckett, an unknown playwright at the time.

But another issue is personal, at least in this case: The ability of a financially strapped, largely unknown playwright to fight legal threats.

It was written by Enda Walsh, then an unknown playwright, and booked to run for a few weeks at Cork's Triskel Arts Centre.

"I Hate Hamlet" was a romantic comedy by an unknown playwright, being directed by the very young Michael Engler, so it wasn't easy to find, persuade, and sign a Barrymore.

Houseman and Welles frown on only two types of play: Restoration comedy, which Houseman says is unsuited to the modern tempo; and plays by young and unknown playwrights, which Welles says the Mercury can't afford to undertake.

His successes may have been small and his audiences far from friendly ("So many people don't like my work!" he wrote in 1943. "It's a wonder to me that I am even the 'Best Known of the Unknown Playwrights'"), but from the beginning he was winning awards and acquiring influential support for his talent..

Like many young playwrights, he believed that theatre companies would be eager to stage ambitious, large-scale plays by unknown playwrights.

In 1952 Mr. Seaver himself wrote an essay extolling the work of a young Irish novelist and then-unknown playwright, Samuel Beckett, that became instrumental in Beckett's finding an American publisher and champion.

He was a history buff and was fascinated by the person who had conquered so much at so young an age — a not dissimilar arc to McQuarrie's own, an observer might note — and then died at 32. McQuarrie spent years trying to make the Alexander movie, flying to Seattle to meet with then-unknown playwright Peter Buchman.