Word: melodrama
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...cast of stereotypes, a forceful satirical piece could have been effected. Similarly, a serious interpretation, though ambitious, considering the play's outdated political theories and melodramatic tendencies, could have provided an effective dramatization. The cast, however, chooses simply to not interpret the play, instead incorporating stereotypes, political theory and melodrama indiscriminately, thereby presenting a chaotic version of Ibsen's vision...
Randy McGrorty (Billing) overdevelops. Although his portrayal is uproariously satiric, he effects the level of uproar to an extravagant degree--a degree even satire cannot stomach. Jody Barrett (Hovstadt), while an excellent actress, occasionally applies histrionics and melodrama to cautious scenes, underrating the dramatic ones...
...Mackintosh Man (1973): Thought we could make an effective melodrama out of that, and I was wrong...
...people behind this show, Executive Producer Bruce Paltrow and a squad of four writer-producer-directors, want to tap into the vein of familiar everyday crisis that fuels all melodrama. What often sends them wide of the mark is a penchant for insipid shock value (a make-out scene in a morgue) and a sentimental streak as wide as an emergency ward. When James Coco and Doris Roberts appeared last week as two street derelicts, they seemed to bring everything in their ragtag baggage but a violin and a cup. Roberts, facing the amputation of both feet because her frozen...
...evidence, including a prewritten, first-person SPORTS ILLUSTRATED account, suggested the evening was pure melodrama. But Leonard insisted his decision to retire was not finally made until right there in the ring, when, looking directly at Middleweight Champion Marvin Hagler and rhapsodizing over what a splendid match they would make, he said, "Unfortunately, it will never happen...