But Coach Rankis could use the small court to his advantage by devising special plays like half-court traps on defense and stacking players on offense.

She then worked as a theatre director in Tehran, translating from English into Persian and devising new plays, as well as co-founding the Theatre in Exile group.

There seem to be more and more theatre companies devising plays for a single audience member to watch at a time.

Shaughnessy preferred to devise plays late at night, between midnight and dawn, while his household slept.

The group devised simple, unscripted plays which could be performed in the playgrounds of poor council estates and which recruited children from the audience to take over some of the roles.

She devised short plays with the right number of parts for a reading group, rotating the roles until each child had read the whole play.

During his internment in the German prisoner-of-war camp, where he remained for the next five years, he took command of the camp's theatrical activities - devising and staging plays.

To pass the time they devise and perform plays.

He devised several plays for the theatre including The Sleep of Reason, Real Time, Clapperclaw and Half Moon.

Another excellent thing the Steelers do is devise new plays off old plays.