Sentence examples for without decor from inspiring English sources

His first play to be produced was A Resounding Tinkle (1957), which in its original two-act form won third prize in an Observer playwriting competition organised by Tynan and was produced as a Sunday night "without decor" production at the Royal Court.

His first play, Miniatures (1965), about the rough and tumble of life in a comprehensive school from the teachers' perspective, was given a Sunday night performance ("without decor") with a "gala" cast including Jane Birkin, Lindsay Anderson as a disciplinarian deputy campaigning for the wearing of gowns, Devine himself as the headteacher and Nicol Williamson as a deranged music teacher.

In the next two years he was in the Sunday night "without decor" tryouts for two important ESC productions, NF Simpson's A Resounding Tinkle (directed by Gaskill) and Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen (directed by John Dexter), as well as appearing in John Osborne's Epitaph for George Dillon (again directed by Gaskill, with Robert Stephens in the lead) and John Arden's Live Like Pigs.

They are calling it a "production without decor".

Only an ex-Python would be barmy enough to debut as an opera director with a work the composer said should not be staged but performed "without decor or costumes".

Its staging led to the BBC commissioning a radio play which attracted the attention of George Devine at the Royal Court who put on Arden's play, The Waters of Babylon, for a single performance "without decor" in 1957.

These Sunday "productions-without-decor" felt at the time, said the director William Gaskill, "as historically important as anything we did on the main bill".

Without the decor, it would be a diner, and not a great diner, either.

Decor Without Production, his series of late-night shows scheduled for the Jerwood Theatre from March 2006, is in part a tribute to the improvisation and mask work led by George Devine and Keith Johnstone in the 1960s and 1970s.

But I promise that I have found new happiness in being able to choose my own curtains, duvet cover, colour paint for the walls, kitchen surfaces or any bit of household decor without hours of consultation with him, hours of arguing, dithering, compromising.

It was below deck, rather dingy and without the celebratory decor.