But Leoncavallo also gives us theatrical self-referentiality, a classic mise en abyme.
Caravaggio was, after all, a master of shifting and theatrical self-projection.
Springsteen was aware of the comical contradiction: the multimillionaire who, in his theatrical self-presentation, is the voice of the dispossessed.
Watching it at home, the voice of the movie's subject who speaks on camera throughout dominated, and its theatrical, self-dramatizing exuberance made the strongest impression on me.
This inevitably leads to a slightly cloying and hoary theatrical self-consciousness, with Christopher bossing around the performers of his mini-memoir.
The charming 67-year-old sitting in a rehearsal room at the Globe theatre in London is energetic, even defiant; but someone bent on theatrical self-immolation?
Watching it at home, the voice of the movie's subject — who speaks on camera throughout — dominated, and its theatrical, self-dramatizing exuberance made the strongest impression on me.
When Clara was growing up, there were no black film actors who could express her panic, her high theatrical self-engagement, or her sense of grief.
To Mantel's Cromwell, More is in love with his own martyrdom, his own theatrical self-importance, while Cromwell, more in keeping with the spirit of Bolt's title, seeks a way out for his old rival.
In the eighties, the New York art world demanded theatrical self-consciousness in painting, and it arrived in the grandiose posturing of Julian Schnabel and the vertiginous sarcasm of David Salle.
Hodsoll's personas exude enjoyably aggressive confidence, taking in stride theatrical self-consciousness and anachronisms (like the can of Red Bull that turns out to be hidden in a Greek column).
