It is no longer at the center of a roiling drama of power and striving.
In Shakespeare's drama of power struggle, Richard II – staged by Michael Grandage, the Donmar's outgoing artistic director – Redmayne is an etiolated beanpole, robed in white from top to toe.
Another conception of leadership, however, attaches almost mystical beliefs to what a leader is and assumes that only great people are worthy of the drama of power and politics.
It was one of many satires inspired by current Dutch prints, but the way in which Hogarth brought iconic city buildings together - the Guildhall, the Exchange, the Monument, St Paul's and the poorhouse - transformed London into a stage, the setting for a cruel drama of power.
"The Big Picture always exists," she wrote, and by Big Picture she meant the drama of power brokers and politicians and corporations.
But Galban cannot decide whether to stage a dutiful tragedy about heroes, or a bitterly cynical drama of power and underdeveloped ideals.
Here Mr. Cantet — whose earlier features include "Human Resources" and "Time Out," two other dramas about systems of power — has done that rarest of things in movies about children: He has allowed them to talk.
But when he rose after the opening courtesies to outline the Senate's schedule over the next week or so, you could feel the drama of the power shift.
Born into a clan centered on the drama of male power and collapse, Ibsen was forever shamed by his father's drinking and his inability to make a successful go of it in business.
The story of this man's anger and grief, and of his subsequent disillusion when he realized that there was in fact no terrorist-Saddam connection, is a primal drama of considerable power.
