am-dram
Britishabbreviation
Example Sentences
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Peake plays Meredith Ankle, matriarch of the am-dram group and owner of Ankle Carpets.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2022
The characters in the Dewsbury am-dram group have their bread buttered on various sides, but they agree Lady Boothroyd is, as Peake believes too, a symbol of democratic respectability and stability compared with today's politicians.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2022
She has been praised and razed, built up and torn down; variously hailed as the most vibrant British actor of her generation and dismissed as an am-dram fake who got lucky.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2014
Its legacy was a generational gap in terms of theatre practice: while Peter Brook and other pioneers were pushing boundaries, much am-dram continued on, for 30 years or more, in the old repertory style.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2012
"But we're fighting against people's ideas of am-dram – wobbly sets, people forgetting their lines."
From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2012
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