Word: psychograph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kevin Conway paints a psychograph of Treves, each brush stroke subtler than the last, the kindest of healers plagued with the darkest of self-doubts. And Carole Shelley's Mrs. Kendal - curious, amused, emotionally generous - is a womanly oasis, and like the play itself, no mirage in a parched season. - T. E. Kalem
...kind of psychograph may explain and link these three plays. Picture an adolescent growing up in a small town, probably in the Middle West. While sheltering him, his parental home gives him no rooted sense of identity and fails to enfold him in a warm, unconditional love. Drafted into the army, he cherishes the camaraderie but loathes the authoritarian procedures and is broodily apprehensive about his own possible death in combat. As an innocent, he is startled by his introduction to evil, or deviant, modes of conduct. He is forced to wonder if his friendship for his fellow soldiers...
...number of image patterns persist and recur, forming a kind of psychograph of the way women are viewed in modern drama...