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Recent Examples of psychodrama
Niemann himself sometimes seems like a method actor appearing in a psychodrama, whether by temperament or by a recognition that the mad villain is the only decent role available to him now.
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Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025
Barney, as is often the case, reveals unexpected refinement, directing a black-and-white psychodrama about his alcoholism, but Homer, who’s on the judging panel, prefers the one with the football in the groin.
—Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
Performing an intense psychodrama about your wife’s family, night after night, must be gruelling.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
The psychodrama is naked — sometimes hard to read, at other moments approaching farce.
—New York Times, 8 July 2024
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Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025
Barney, as is often the case, reveals unexpected refinement, directing a black-and-white psychodrama about his alcoholism, but Homer, who’s on the judging panel, prefers the one with the football in the groin.
—Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
Performing an intense psychodrama about your wife’s family, night after night, must be gruelling.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
The psychodrama is naked — sometimes hard to read, at other moments approaching farce.
—New York Times, 8 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychodrama
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So what starts out as this high-school melodrama done for laughs grows into something darker and more profound as the story progresses.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Directed by Vincente Minnelli, this romantic melodrama was filmed on the beaches of Big Sur.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Directed by Josef Hader The soil of the Austrian countryside is rich with tragicomedy in writer-director-star Hader’s second feature as a director after 2017’s Wild Mouse.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Feb. 2025
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Alas, Godwin’s gentle take on the tragicomedy misses the explosive nature of this moment, the desperation these characters feel to change their fate right now or live and die steeped in stifling ennui.—
Karen D'Souza,
The Mercury News,
21 Feb. 2025
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Lorre, a veteran comedy creator, executive producer and writer, will speak as part of the Summit Series at the 46th edition of Banff from June 8 to 11, 2025.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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The comedy special Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night of Your Life will premiere Saturday, April 26 at 10 pm on HBO (and stream on Max).—
Vlada Gelman,
TVLine,
10 Apr. 2025
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The original film was also adapted into a musical that opened on Broadway in 2007.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
2 Apr. 2025
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Wade Hair directs the musical for the theater, 6900 Aloma Ave.—
Matthew J. Palm,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Mar. 2025
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The Room Next Door shares the same theme, allowing director Pedro Almodóvar to address Covid-era tragedy, much as directing team Scott McGehee and David Siegel do in The Friend.—
Armond White,
National Review,
2 Apr. 2025
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Kilmer’s passion for performing was fostered early — during an active, adventurous childhood in Chatsworth, Calif., making homemade films and plays alongside his brothers Mark and Wesley — and also shaped by tragedy.—
Kara Warner,
People.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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The book by Bob Martin travels between Betty’s cartoon world and the real one — or at least the world of musical comedy (which isn’t all that real anyway).—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2025
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While the series was on the air, North also appeared as Dennis on The Donna Reed Show and The Red Skelton Hour and in the 1960 musical comedy film Pépé, starring Cantinflas.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Apr. 2025
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At the end of mountain stages, a delicious monodrama always unfolds.—
Thomas Curran,
Time,
8 Aug. 2023
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Suzie Miller constructs her monodrama at the intersection of #MeToo and British justice, and though the dramatist appends a superfluous moral to the story, the proceedings amount to a virtuosic, blow-by-blow account of a process stacked against female victims.—
Peter Marks,
Washington Post,
17 May 2022
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Muay Thai is more a motif, here, than a driver of action, as many subsequent boxing interludes tie together multiple storylines.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
31 Mar. 2025
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So, these black holes would produce powerful jets both early and later in their lifetimes, with an interlude in the middle where the jets are either weak or nonexistent.—
David Garofalo,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Psychodrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychodrama. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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