Word: satiricism
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Desperate Housewives is the kind of show many TV execs believed wouldn't work on a network today. It's satiric. Unlike CSI, it has a complicated serial plot. (The guy-gal thing again; networks run scared from shows that ask for a commitment.) And it's a show with...
David Hare’s fascinating and intricately crafted adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde made waves in 1998 with its scintillating high profile run on Broadway. The play is a satiric and penetrating look at the ideals, fallacies and experiences of love and sex...
Such docu-plays aren't new. The Laramie Project (based on the Matthew Shepard killing), Anna Deavere Smith's monologues and Loose Lips, a satiric revue from the '90s, were all drawn from real-life words. But the form has lately been flexing its dramatic muscles. The Exonerated, an off...
DYSPEPTIC DUO: Two satiric novels of suburban and cubicle life 140
That leaves the viewer plenty of time to contemplate the film's fundamental irony. While the youngsters are inside quite realistically acting out their fantasies, real life (and death) is running riot in the streets. A lot of the threesome's games are inspired by the movies they saw at...