Blindness is a drum-tight drama, with superb, hallucinatory images of urban collapse.
Munich spared no expense on the extravagant production by Carlus Padrissa and his celebrated Catalan troupe La Fura dels Baus — here including Roland Olbeter, sets; Chu Uroz, costumes; and Urs Schönebaum, lighting — though you couldn't help but wonder whether stronger direction of the principals might have made for tighter drama.
In this world, pig hybrids outsmart humans and an off-shoot species of mankind wanders about purring, but it is, at the same time, a realistic novel full of tight domestic dramas in the midst of the apocalypse.
It's a play about the emotional stakes of intellectual dogmatism, strung against a jaunty portrait of college-town culture, and, appearing at a moment when theatrical taste ran toward small and tight domestic dramas, it brought Baker to national attention.
Instead of inundating readers with trial maneuvers, Mr. Guinn homes in on the tight suspense and drama of the trial, not to mention the bits of inadvertent comedy.
(The other two are Mervyn LeRoy's tight little newspaper drama of 1931, "Five Star Final," and William Conrad's "Two on a Guillotine" (1965), a disappointingly dull shocker in the William Castle manner.
While this relatively tight but overlong drama is set in Washington, D.C., and its environs during Christmas Eve, 1864 — the Emancipation Proclamation was signed the year before — America is still at war with itself.
Johnnie To's sleek, tight-lipped crime drama offers the strategic intrigue of a mortal chess game before turning midway into a conventionally sadistic bloodbath.
The tunes were better than any he had written before, the drama tighter and more exciting, and the characterization altogether original.
Sir Tom proves that it is possible to construct a tight 100 minutes of drama around neuroscientific conceits.
