Word: psychodrama
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fancier noun for this genre is psychodrama, and Tremblay supplies the "psycho" in liberal portions. The central character, who sits on a stool at center stage, is Serge, a young man about 25 years old who has just returned to Canada from a three-month vacation to Europe. Around him, in their solitary chairs, are his four older sisters, two intolerable, hypochondriac aunts and his father who is so deaf he can barely hear shouts. During the play, Serge confronts the fact that the members of his family have made wrecks of their lives...
Santa Fe's production, performed in the company's handsome redwood and adobe outdoor theater, is squarely in the 20th century tradition. Oliver's opera is a chilling psychodrama, a story of madness and perversion. Instead of a palace, the set is a surreal structure, an external symbol of the brothers' twisted passions. Against this fantastical backdrop, shapes and shadows mingle grotesquely. Soldiers resemble insects in their shiny black armor and luminous round helmets. Members of the court, dressed in garishly striped costumes, are a hideous masquerade, a parody of splendor...
...rookie and allow him to throw a baseball. Last year Holtzman, a former 20-game winner, earned his $165,000 salary by spending 72 innings on the mound and the rest of the season in Martin's doghouse. Martin and Steinbrenner, principal antagonists in last year's psychodrama, publicly praised each other's baseball genius. Said Martin: "I don't think there's going to be much controversy this year...
...games. His career in boxing has of course been totally entangled with his celebrity-Ali may be the most famous man in the world. Since he took the heavyweight title from Sonny Listen in Miami Beach 14 years ago, "the Greatest" has been the protagonist of a vast popular psychodrama in which sport was only a part. But more vivid than his conversion to Islam, his anti-Viet Nam politics or his famous mouth is the memory of his sweet dancing vitality in the ring. That recollection played in the back of people's minds, almost in their subconscious...
AEROBICS, assertiveness training, behavior modification, body language, biofeedback, creative divorce, do-it-yourself psychotherapy, dream analysis, egospeak, est, esp, high-fiber diets, homeotherapy, i ching, isometrics, macrobiotics, mega-vitamins, metatalk, numerology, open marriage, parenting, psychodrama, reality training, psychocybernetics, sense relation, silva mine control, tantric sex, transactional analysis...