In doing so, he is harking back to an age when US politicians would tour their patch delivering long theatrical speeches with an artistry that captivated their audiences.
The heavily freighted clash between Doug and Charlotte, with its opportunities for tightly written if somewhat theatrical speeches unpacking their rival views of how society should function, has more dramatic storylines branching off it, however.
He wrote in prose paragraphs, feeling towards a tough, full-bloodied, inventive but real theatrical speech.
Gardley's ear for the sound of theatrical speech makes itself known at once: MISSIONARY: Lord, it's hot.
During a meandering, theatrical speech at the National Assembly here, he said, "We have broken the chains of the old hegemonic oligarchy".
By Amy Davidson Sorkin January 20 , 2016Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and Vice-Presidential candidate, endorsed Donald Trump for U.S. President in a theatrical speech in Ames, Iowa.
In the boat, she hopped up and down in the bow, leaned over the edge and made a theatrical speech about the cruel, cruel world and the weedy river's irresistible call.
Set to music, as much of it is in "Life and Times," the rambling recollections of Ms. Worrall become their own form of stylized theatrical speech, simply by being presented without editing.
It was a dazzling piece written in ersatz Scots dialect – "a theatrical speech thorny with images, knotted with strength, rough and springy as an uncombed fleece," said Ronald Bryden – but with too few concessions, some thought, to comprehensibility.
In common with a number of modern dramatists, including Caryl Churchill and Martin Crimp, Lavery uses vertical slashes and bracketed overlaps in an attempt to bring theatrical speech closer to the messy interruptions and near-incoherence of actual conversation: "I'm quite dictatorial about how the words are set down on the page, trying to capture the strangeness of spoken language.
Usually Van Hove's genius is the way he lays bare these very same desires (sometimes literally) amid the seeming respectability of ordinary theatrical speech and action, as he did to such remarkable effect in his recent production of Miller's A View from the Bridge.
