“Almost every Londoner went to the theatre,” Osman explains. Most of his characters were real-life Blackfriars boys, the prime time entertainers of their day. Then he saw a BBC documentary, Abducted, about children kidnapped from the streets of Elizabethan London to perform at the Blackfriars theatre and the missing pieces fell into place. His original idea was to spin the story of a band – specifically the Sex Pistols – set in 16th-century England, but that felt too gimmicky, too thin a conceit. But as I get older, books become more important What else am I going to do but write?” I always thought music seemed the pinnacle of human existence. People always say: ‘How do you find the time to do both?’ But I don’t start work until nine at night – the rest of the day I’m sitting in the hotel or in places like this. “Touring is absolutely brilliant for writing. The Ghost Theatre, he explains, was partly written on the road. Osman is imposingly tall and the room is comically small, but this is the world that he knows his home for the next 90 minutes. We meet in the wings of Bristol’s O2 Academy, at the tail end of Suede’s latest UK tour. And if they play the role well enough, who’s to say it’s not true? They might perform the role of a rock star, an office worker, a van driver, a writer. Everybody performs, whether they’re on stage or not. It’s a book about performance, he says, because the subject fascinates him. Now he has written it, too, in the form of a novel about star-crossed child actors in Elizabethan London. Send us feedback about these examples.Osman has experienced this at first hand as the bassist in Suede, the group he co-founded in the late 80s with his schoolfriend Brett Anderson. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'intermission.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 Ballard’s pick with 61 seconds left in the first half led directly to a 39-yard field goal by Cole Murphy for a 10-3 lead going into intermission. Peter Keepnews, New York Times, 25 Apr. Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, Early in 1949, he was given the chance to perform during intermissions for two weeks at the Royal Roost, a popular Midtown jazz nightclub. Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, That marked the eighth time in 11 regular-season games that the Galaxy have gone into the intermission without a goal. Stephen Hawkins,, During the first intermission, Vegas forward Jonathan Marchessault spoke briefly about Benn’s cross-check to ESPN. Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2023 With extended time needed to clean up the playing surface, officials sent both teams to their locker rooms early and finished those final seconds after the intermission before playing the third period. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 June 2023 Jessica and Ben, you guys are on stage alone for extended periods of time when actors usually are not - Jessica while the audience is entering the theater, Ben during the entire intermission. Alice Li, Washington Post, 14 June 2023 People are outside a theater, having a smoke during the intermission of a show. Recent Examples on the Web In the middle of the day-long competition, organizers cleared everyone out to clean during intermission.
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