That father — the custodian of cruelties — is central to Taylor Mac's "Hir" (sensitively directed by Niegel Smith, at Playwrights Horizons), a play that harks back to a time when politically driven narratives were the rule, not the exception.
With driven narratives, his books have the feel of a movie set down on paper.
Arcs were team driven, narratives were steady, and personalities were afforded equal servings of attention.
As McNamara points out, "Breaking Bad" has recently outstripped "Mad Men" as AMC's alpha program, and being the first to end will set some sort of template for the story-, as opposed to ratings-, drivenarrativeses.
As human beings we are driven by stories because that's how we've always passed on information to each other and using data to drive narratives can help people to understand the point of the story.
"I wanted to push narrative driven interaction to its breaking point".
Women have collaborated with, even driven, this narrative.
Unlike the best big games, iPhone games aren't driven by narrative and character.
The romance that had driven the narrative became secondary to Miranda's loving depiction of a neighborhood.
Even then I had noticed that stories supposedly driven by narrative depended for their real vitality on establishing ambience.
I say this partly because Ms. Peirce's movie, which she wrote with Mark Richard, is not only an earnest, issue-driven narrative, but also a feverish entertainment, a passionate, at times overwrought melodrama gaudy with violent actions and emotions.
