A sex change is a dramatic experience at any time, but for an adolescent it can take on a particularly heightened cast.
Some heart attack symptoms take place over hours or even days, so not every heart attack will be a dramatic and short-lived experience.
People who buy a ticket to the Théâtre du Soleil don't simply get a show: they are absorbed into a dramatic experience whose every detail, from the navette that picks them up from the Métro to the meal they eat beforehand, has been carefully, almost ritualistically planned.
After all, the function of the overture was to build expectations for a dramatic experience to follow.
"What could be more democratic, more American, than changing your sex on demand?" But the reality, she said, was a dramatic and consuming experience.
"It's a very dramatic experience because none of these kids was born" in 1972, Margolis said.
Jumping between vivid, fragmentary moments, letting sensation substitute for psychology, "American Idiot" provides a dramatic experience that is akin to channel surfing.
The elements of a play do not combine naturally to create a dramatic experience but, rather, are made to work together through the structure of a play, a major factor in the total impact of the experience.
This experience was a dramatic contrast from several months before, when the children were shivering in unheated rooms, suffering through one of Tajikistan's worst winters on record.
"The Garden," a 2001 work by Rodney Sharman, with a text by Peter Eliot Weiss about a young man's first visit to a gay club and his explicit memories of early experiences, is a dramatic and at times rhapsodic score with an almost operatic sensibility.
