It can, that is to say, succeed only on the scale of soap opera—"Milly Faces Life," "Death Can Be Bountiful," "The First Mrs. Densher," "Wings of Riches"—or on that of grand opera, with such arias as "O gentle dove!," "This heart to thy swift flight," "Fold now thy tender wings," "Ah, passion but an hour!" Thus, Meade Roberts's "Playhouse 90" dramatization was a unique achievement.
Rumpole, especially as embodied by Leo McKern in the many BBC television dramatizations, is a character of almost Dickensian lovableness.
A "patient dramatization" is not a dance, and dances don't come with disclaimers.
Scenes also have the tendency to expose what might easily get a pass in other types of writing — that is to say, dramatization is naturally antagonistic to ideology.
But its dramatization is definitely not.
The dramatization is followed by discussion between players and audience.
Illustrative sketches accompany the narration but full-scale dramatization is curtailed.
The hero, or irritant (depending on which side of the controversy one favors), in the genesis of the diary's dramatization was Meyer Levin, a Chicago-born novelist of the social-realist school, the author of such fairly successful works as "The Old Bunch," "Compulsion," and "The Settlers".
Qin Shi Huangdi's story, as told here in a hybrid dramatization-documentary form, is a heady mix of soap opera and archaeology.
Did they know that the casting videos were themselves the film that they'd be appearing in, and that the dramatization would be a slender and sketchy afterthought?
