Word: melodrama
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...Eugene O'Neill by A Moon for the Misbegotten. There was Anabaptist and King John by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, three Shakespeares, two Sartres, Sophocles' Oedipus, Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Shaw's Pygmalion, a Renaissance knockabout by Niccolò Machiavelli, a late 19th century melodrama by French Primitive Painter Henri Rousseau, works by Wilde, Sheridan and Molière-besides three plays by Czech author Karel Čapek and two carminative political satires by young Czech playwrights...
...have repeatedly put on Western plays with themes of conscience and freedom. They have reached back for historical plays that echo themes of patriotism, power and treachery. The most arresting of these is King John, in the recent adaptation by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, which turns Shakespeare's melodrama into a brutal and very moving confrontation of activist idealism with the chill realities. Suddenly, also, there is great theatrical interest in the Hussites. Several plays have been put on or are due next season about this Czech religious reform movement that was savagely suppressed from outside. Thus the creative...
WINNING. In this melodrama of the Indianapolis 500, Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman sometimes flash their celebrated force and conviction. For the most part, the action (like the race) merely goes in circles...
...American Melodrama, Chester, Hodgson and Page...
...placate all factions, the film actually represents none. One moment Che is a cultural hero; the next he is a messianic psychopath. As for Russia and the CIA, the film makes them worse than villains by reducing them to bystanders who have nothing to do with the central melodrama. The driven, half-poetic half-delusive doctor has become a worldwide legend in the past three years. Though his body was seen and identified, he is still rumored to be alive somewhere in the mountains of South America. If anyone doubts Che's death he has only to look...