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Of course, a recent movie that treats the specific drama of comic life with insight and pathos is Judd Apatow's "Funny People," which is coming to DVD November 24th.

What makes "Sun" work is the sense of a writer who's lost interest in the specific drama of one particular story.

**{:.mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image}"Dot for Short": I was very interested in creating an emotional tension between each sentence, as well a specific drama, as I recalled Dot (the character in the 1947 book "Dot For Short," by Frieda Friedman) journeying forward in her adolescence, my desperate yearning to re-read the story as an adult, and my decades-long search for the old, out-of-print book.

This paper furthers this integration by presenting a specific drama-based therapeutic approach, developmental transformations, within a broader cognitive landscape.

Not just because her dancing eyebrows and twirling wrists in the role of a sex therapist in "Pink Knees on Pale Skin" — the better half of a pair of site-specific dramas "HotelMotel," staged around a bed inside the Gershwin Hotel — evoke a younger Norma Desmond.

Having valuably collected first-hand accounts of citizens and reporters, as well as footage of Condoleezza Rice, Holmes stages their testimony in a former brewery in Brick Lane (if this is site-specific drama, where is the specificity?), with an intrusive artistic overlay: there's redundant music by Nitin Sawhney and a tasteful design - involving very trim body-bags - by Lucy and Jorge Orta.

He and designer Ben Stones make the eccentric space at the top of the former St Martins School of Art so much their own that this feels like a site-specific drama.

Neil Bartlett has always been good at site-specific drama, but he's excelled himself with his production of The Pianist, based on Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoir of the Warsaw Ghetto, best known till now through Roman Polanski's 2002 movie adaptation.

Ms. Bissett is the creator and director of "Roadkill," an immersive site-specific drama with text by Stef Smith, that is being presented by St. Ann's Warehouse three years after it captivated audiences and critics at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, winning awards and critical praise even as audiences found it difficult to watch and impossible to ignore.

As Hansberry once said: "In order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific", and this drama resonates with other lives similarly cramped by poverty (Irish writer Seán O'Casey's Dublin-set Juno and the Paycock was a partial influence).

"The text is very specific and the drama keeps revolving on virtually 180-degree turns, so it's something that the director and the performer have to figure out – the soprano, in this case the wonderful Nuccia Focile, carries the whole show alone and it's essential that the character evolves from her viewpoint".

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