1.  And Macdonald, an English director fresh from the stage, singlehandedly resurrects the long-ignored singing career of Mama Cass Elliott.

2.  Later, she married the English director Peter Hall, from whom she is divorced.

3.  Nearly everything about the revival is half-baked, including the decision by Sarah Pia Anderson, the English director, to update the action.

4.  My shaved head annoyed the English director.

5.  Now they convened to meet one another and the production team, and to hear the English director Stephen Lawless explain his concept of the work.

6.  Nobody can deny that English director Sally Potter has a great visual eye and composes and frames each scene of her movies beautifully.

7.  The English director Michael Austin creates a sense of fun.

8.  The eminent English director is, after all, far better known than Adrian Lester, the fine young English actor who has the title role.

9.  The play has been given an arty, elliptical presentation by talented English director Mark Wing-Davey and set designer Derek McLane.

10.  The setting, said Sam Mendes, the English director, is a symbol for Weimar Germany, in which the disease of Nazism grows bit by bit.