This restrained and respectful treatment of the historical facts is admirable; in other hands, "Dave the Potter" could easily have become didactic or Disneyfied.
"Many German playwrights of the same generation became didactic in their writing," says Von Mayenburg, "but she has taken political theatre to a new level.
He becomes momentarily didactic.
Yet as it moves from the delicate Redgrave story to the more daring Sevigny era and on to the present, in which Ellen DeGeneres and Sharon Stone play a couple who want a child, each segment becomes more didactic and proud of its very existence.
English novelist and critic Stephanie Merritt wrote in The Observer that once Carl finds Dominic and Danny, the novel "loses momentum and becomes more didactic", and that the "sheer exuberance of detail at times threatens to overwhelm the story".
The political warfare in the Cleves family is rather too starkly laid out, and the novel can become earnestly didactic.
It's a mistake to be too intelligent: you become professorial, didactic.
As the novel gathers momentum toward its resolution, I know in my critical self that it becomes too heavily didactic and sweet with sentiment for our contemporary tastes.
"These shows can get didactic".
So much contemporary photography these days is conceptual, self-referential and didactic, it becomes easy to forget the immense power of a human story.
