Word: melodrama
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Mills also screams quite a bit, and in the pill-box Loeb Experimental Theatre this can be disconcerting to the audience as well as to his wife. But most of the high-pitched rantings are totally justified, and Mills' elaborate gestures, which would be tame for a 19th century melodrama, heighten the comedy...
...future horrors, too many writers have lost their sense of human proportion. It is this sense that Miss Laski struggles nobly to retain in The Offshore Island. Mr. Bissinger's careful, expensive production in constructed with extreme theatricality. Its faults--an occasional vestige of television writing, a touch of melodrama--are overcome with considerable skill; and the significant theme is developed with no extra heavy-handedness...
...steel melodrama of 1963 started out like a familiar scene in a western movie: an embattled cowboy raising a hat on a stick to see if the foe fires...
...Characters in Search of an Author employs the arena stage with remarkable intelligence and achieves a model revival of the Pirandello classic. The play is a philosophical melodrama in which illusion wrestles with reality and both ambiguously exchange identities. William Ball's direction is organic, coursing like blood along a vein to the heart of the play, which is the mind...
Public concern and Presidential indignation, however, have focused largely on the melodrama of strikes rather than on the tragedy of unemployment. The newspaper dispute, the East Coast dock strike, and a prospective walkout by the rail-road employees served to evoke the image of "featherbedding" by reactionary union leaders (ironically, the Typographers' rank-and-file now demand more advantageous terms than Mr. Powers had settled...