This new drama, staged around a column covered in televisions, as clichéd a stage image as you will find downtown, is a more reverent adaptation.
For now, most Yemenis seem to dismiss reports of Al Qaeda killings as a "masrah," or drama, staged by the government and its American backers.
Even people who believe that the Sandy Hook shooting was actually a drama staged by actors couch their arguments in concern for the preservation of the Second Amendment.
Once you're full, check out "Amelia," a site-specific Civil War drama staged at Fort Jay (May 26 and 27, then Thursdays through Sundays through June 17, 3 p.m., ameliatheplay.com; free).
Third-string quarterbacks when the season began, John Skelton and Stephen McGee had lead parts in a Saturday night drama staged by two N.F.L. teams headed nowhere.
This coolly staged, warmly acted revival brings out the medicinal flavor in Bernard Pomerance's 1979 drama, staged with solemn Brechtian detachment by Sean Mathias.
More critically, this drama, staged slowly with too much fuss (onstage snow, an elaborately bloody death scene) by Mr. Rapp, suffers from the kind of tedious symbol-laden writing that he has outgrown.
Now this unique band of poets, stuntmen and scrap collectors is preparing to unveil Sea Odyssey, a drama staged to mark the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic.
(It is only fair to point out, though, that a cepak performance without a ritual connection -- a drama staged simply to be videotaped by foreign scholars -- is perhaps something that the people of Gadingan would not find compelling).
The fact that it is a live drama, staged in an intimate theater, only strengthens its connection with middle-aged audience members just beginning to confront their own mortality.
Walter Benjamin, the German 20th century philosopher, in his book The Origin of German Tragic Drama[16], explains how baroque drama stages the sorrowful as opposed to the tragic.
