shadow play

noun

: a drama exhibited by throwing shadows of puppets or actors on a screen

called also shadow show

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web From the street, the indoor intensity appears like a shadow play of figures striding up and down those theatrical stairs. —

Curbed, 25 Feb. 2022 Dear San Francisco is powered by exhilarating acrobatics, choreography, spoken word, video projections, shadow play, and original music. —

San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Aug. 2022 The podcast’s first episode, played in the next room, would be augmented by projections of stars evoking Griffith Observatory; a shadow play; and onscreen images that stopped short of making a movie out of a podcast. —

Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022 Layered knits and easygoing silhouettes heat up among desert sun rays and shadow play. —

WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022 That movie, or some imaginary version of it, is still unfurling as a shadow play in the megaplex of my mind. —

Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2021 Was that whole parade of new-city fantasies just a shadow play, distracting us from the inexorable forces of mediocrity? —

Justin Davidson, Curbed, 31 Aug. 2021 The South African polymath — whose skills include drawing, painting, filmmaking, theater, opera, shadow play, and puppetry — is surely accustomed to grander scale. —

Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2020 The shadow play of the concrete sunscreen of 3525 Turtle Creek. —

Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 15 May 2020 See More

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