actable
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What Ian Allen’s snappy, deeply actable play does is cast shadows across this demure figure.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 6, 2017
Surface proves this is actable, as long as you have such animated speakers as Matthew R. Wilson, Louis E. Davis and Megan Graves as the grumpy and wondrous shepherds.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2016
“The creative explosion is not happening. It’s professional, it’s actable, it’s entertaining. But I want to be the best at whatever I do.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2016
Mr. Beresford, an actor, writes eminently actable dialogue: the kind in which surface wit is rooted in deep ambivalence.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2012
It is an actable play, and most of our prominent actors, coming out of the period of the late 80's, had training in it.
From Shenandoah Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911 by Montrose Jonas Moses
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