Ms. Wertenbaker based her play on Thomas Keneally's novel "The Playmaker."

Sherwood had based his play on his own wartime experiences, including a chance meeting with an American chorus girl turned streetwalker during a 1918 air raid.

Later rushing-about games may be more organized and contentful when children base their play on ideas from a shared story or group of stories heard, seen, or read.

Ctesias's tale (the original is lost) was preserved by Diodorus Siculus, and it is on this account that Byron based his play.

Shakespeare based his play on stories in Plutarch's Life of Brutus and Life of Caesar.

Topaze is a 1951 French film directed by Marcel Pagnol, based his play of the same name.

It is an error to base your play on 'frozen' action shots.

It is said Corneille based his play on an actual event he witnessed.

George Lillo based his play on a seventeenth-century ballad about a murder in Shropshire.

Daborne based his play on the seventh story in William Warner's Pan His Syrinx (1584, 1597).