Sentence examples for violent theater from inspiring English sources

By the measure of its troop numbers, and its role in Helmand, the most violent theater of the war, Britain is the United States' most important ally among the 40 or more countries that contribute forces to the coalition military effort in Afghanistan.

Courtrooms are a violent theater.

"Sadly, community leaders have been unable to guarantee to us that there will be no repeat of the illegal and violent activities," the theater said in a statement after three police officers were injured, more than 800 people were evacuated and property worth thousands of dollars was damaged in the protests.

John Goldsmith had to scale things back to create the world of J.C. Chandor's new crime drama, A Most Violent Year (in theaters now).

A Most Violent Year is in theaters now.

Welcome to Guare's unruly comic world, a piñata of ideas and alarums that aim to replicate Artaud's recipe for wonder: "a theater in which violent physical images crush and hypnotize the sensibility of the spectators".

It is the most violent five minutes of New York theater in memory: A soldier rapes the main character of "Blasted," then sucks out his eyeballs and eats them in nearly plain sight of audiences — which, night after night for weeks, have been watching in shock.

He's the lead in the violent indie "Lawless" (out in theaters now), and next stars in "The Company You Keep" (a.k.a. "The Movie Shia Made With Robert Redford"), "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman" (a.k.a. "The Movie Where Shia Drops Acid") and "Nymphomaniac" (a.k.a. "The Movie Where Shia Will Simulate Various Sex Acts on Screen").

Ideas can be more frenzied and violent than feelings, wrote the great theater critic Eric Bentley.

Ideas can be more frenzied and violent than feelings, wrote the great theater critic Eric Bentley: "It is the worst men who give themselves to ideas most unreservedly.

Her play "Behzti" ("Dishonor"), which includes scenes of sexual abuse inside a Sikh temple, was closed by the Birmingham Repertory Theater after it drew violent protests by Sikhs.