Sentence examples for didactic plays from inspiring English sources

To reach the illiterate, Jadids created the first modern indigenous theatre, performing didactic plays intended to promote moral behaviour.

"One is 'I've got an idea, now I've got to find a situation that will encompass the idea.' Those tend to be didactic plays.

Although 400 years separate them, both are fundamentally didactic plays designed to teach by explication, by the dramatization of the ideas that dictate their dramatic structure.

In both cases, the authors' works presented didactic plays about the world that we may not want to have when we cling to our human nature.

They're acrobats with a social mission, drawing people in with the novelty of the circus and the allure of the word "free" and then hitting them with didactic plays on the major social ails of the country: khat abuse, human trafficking, unemployment, female genital mutilation, and so on.

A didactic play is a play with a simple message, simply delivered, over and over again.

But the sparkling veneer of this respectful production hides a much more brooding, sanctimonious and didactic play.

Fay has invigorated this didactic play by locating it within a satirical American landscape, punctuated by an immense US flag.

As it stands, the sequence is a terse, passionately charged meditation, striking close to the bone, as the plodding, didactic play does not.

This is a didactic play of a theological and philosophical nature, combining ethical profundity with many comic touches, and is a work of high poetic quality and dramatic tension.

That's just about the right amount of time to pass judgment on a didactic play in five short acts written by a man with unfashionable views who never made much of an impact in America until Hollywood transformed his political tract into a musical.