It is lovably Russian, enacting basic dramas of life — a fit of rage, a lost love, a marriage, a death, the hope of Heaven — in twelve scenes.
Now there's a television show that captures this most basic drama of American family life.
It rests on the basic drama of the books: the interaction of a child who represents not innocence but common sense with a world that has none.
Mr. Mueck's stagecraft, the product of training in movie special effects, reiterates the basic drama of illusionism, art's oldest and best trick.
Life continuing could not fold away what had happened, but it offered something, blurring the drama of death's immediacy.
And the innate drama of death and destruction in Afghanistan doesn't translate easily to straightforward, well-made plays.
"Golden Exits" is Brooklyn Bergman, a drama of death pushing from behind and despair looming ahead.
"Audiences will get the drama of death combined with the glamour of celebrity.
Clashes between generations encapsulate some of life's basic dramas: youth versus age and passion versus wisdom.
They mostly stand offstage as the dramas of passion, death and birth unfold around them.
the significance of Scott's discovery was overshadowed by the drama of his death.
