An actable scene.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

It is eminently "actable," presenting striking tableaus and situations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on Scandinavian Literature] Reference

The most intelligent performer is he who recognizes most surely this "actable" and distinguishes in it the more from the less.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picture and Text 1893] Reference

But it does not set itself genuinely free from the habits contracted in common experience, and to inform its research it preserves the postulates of common-sense; so that it always grasps things by their "actable" side, by their point of contact with our faculty for action, under the forms by which we handle them conceptually or practically, and all it attains of reality is that by which nature is a possible object of language or industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson] Reference

Maybe that role is more actable for the woman, the one being left, because I felt more for her than for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tonya Plank: So You Think You Can Dance Week 7: Can it Be, a Week Without Injuries?] Reference

I think these kinds of Gene Kelly-esque, Fancy Free-esque, highly actable comedic Broadway numbers are his thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tonya Plank: So You Think You Can Dance Week 7: Can it Be, a Week Without Injuries?] Reference

Slowly has a physical connotation, so even though it's an adverb and needs walked to complete it, it conveys real actable action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Oldies: Show Vs. Tell] Reference

She seems only to have read or seen one version of Levin's play, which she describes as "moving, theatrical, actable, professional.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne Frank's Afterlife] Reference

But it may be that they're getting some information from these interviews, these statements, and even though it may be a very small piece of information, when you put thousands of bits of information together, and collate them, you get actable intelligence at times.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2003] Reference

Now, so far as the English-speaking countries go, this is not true; Several of the plays which are most valued by lovers of Shakespeare (for instance, Timon of Athens) are seldom or never acted, while some of the most actable, such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, are the least admired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool] Reference

I agree with the judges that he excels at standard ballroom rather than Latin, but pro partner Anna Trebunskaya knows his strengths, that he's a performer who'll be most successful with a routine with an actable story-line, and I think if she keeps giving him those, with his charismatic personality, he'll go far.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tonya Plank: Dancing With the Stars: Adam Carolla and Julianne Hough Survive First Round of Eliminations] Reference

Atalanta in Calydon, and neither of them is in any sense of the word an actable play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellanies] Reference

Our opinions are only sound, I think, as far as the question of a play being actable is concerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Frohman: Manager and Man] Reference

A conclusive objection to the drama as an actable play is that three of the four main episodes are fragmentary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Robert Browning] Reference

The old dramatists didn't defer to them -- not so much at least -- and that's why they're less and less actable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragic Muse] Reference

It is an actable play, and most of our prominent actors, coming out of the period of the late 80's, had training in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shenandoah Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911] Reference

Workshop participants will learn the fundamentals of playwriting and practice crafting actable monologues and sparkling dialogues.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Union - All Categories] Reference

"Cromwell" was not actable, and "Amy Robsart," in collaboration with his brother-in-law, Foucher, miserably failed, notwithstanding a finale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

It's not merely that a 4½-hour "Hamlet" is barely actable or watchable (Kenneth Branagh tried with a 1996 movie - know anybody who got through it?).    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News] Reference

Awaken, 'altho adjusted to the conditions of the modern theater and altho perfectly actable, seems to be intended rather more for the reader than for the spectator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inquiries and Opinions] Reference

Henry Irving now had in view the production of all Shakespeare's actable plays, and naturally “Romeo and Juliet” would come as early as possible in the programme.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of My Life]

There is but one, among them all, that is a really actable (pardon the coining of the word), and that one, too, has in it the elements of a really heart-moving story.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize] Reference

The best are those which yield the most points, which have the largest face; those, in other words, that are the most demonstrable, or, in other words still, the most actable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picture and Text 1893] Reference

Clairon, Rachel, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Booth, and other prominent players, while most of the plays in which they appeared are not only no longer actable, but also no longer readable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merry-Go-Round] Reference

Now, it is quite true that I hold that the stage is to a play no more than a picture-frame is to a painting, and that the actable value of a play has nothing whatsoever to do with its value as a work of art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellanies] Reference

"The Straw" was written long before "Diff'rent," but though available in published form, it has reached the stage too recently to be considered here as acted and actable drama, the only way it is fair to judge works so manifestly intended for the actual stage as those of O'Neill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Eugene O'Neil] Reference

The story of the old king who divides his kingdom among his daughters with calamitous consequences is certainly among the most analyzed, and playing Lear has been considered a crowning achievement for elder actors, but the role and the play itself also have the reputation of being un-actable.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Coast Journal Comments] Reference

Now, so far as the English-speaking countries go, this is not true; Several of the plays which are most valued by lovers of Shakespeare (for instance, TIMON OF ATHENS) are seldom or never acted, while some of the most actable, such as A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, are the least admired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Essays] Reference

Society, that desperate association for producing un-actable dramas) -- the very air is exhausted in a theatrical sense; for "life in the clouds" has been long voted "law;" whilst the play-writing craft have already robbed the regions below of every spark of poetic fire; devils are decidedly out of date.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841] Reference

King Lear, but the beauty of an un-actable play (as Shakespearian actor and.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Coast Journal Comments] Reference

The play itself is hardly actable.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference

(1855), and the 'Vikings at Helgeland' (1858), both of them actable and often acted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inquiries and Opinions] Reference