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Recent Examples of psychodrama
Instead, this is a harrowing psychodrama that explores ritualistic child killings that allegedly overtook Europe in the 18th century as women’s reprieve from the bottomless pit of despair.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 28 June 2024
But this haunted and harrowing psychodrama — based on surviving records from the 18th century, and rooted in the day-to-day tedium of Styrian farm life — has too much respect for its emotionally isolated heroine to frame her unraveling as part of a broader phenomenon.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 June 2024
Jane Campion’s spellbinding psychodrama about a cruel rancher (Benedict Cumberbatch) who terrorizes his tender brother’s new wife (Dunst) in 1920s Montana launched the next phase of Dunst’s career, which has now led her to Alex Garland’s Civil War.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
Cusk’s follow-up, 2021’s Second Place, is a psychodrama about artistic production that sacrifices realistic world making for the starkness of fable.
—Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 28 June 2024
But this haunted and harrowing psychodrama — based on surviving records from the 18th century, and rooted in the day-to-day tedium of Styrian farm life — has too much respect for its emotionally isolated heroine to frame her unraveling as part of a broader phenomenon.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 June 2024
Jane Campion’s spellbinding psychodrama about a cruel rancher (Benedict Cumberbatch) who terrorizes his tender brother’s new wife (Dunst) in 1920s Montana launched the next phase of Dunst’s career, which has now led her to Alex Garland’s Civil War.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
Cusk’s follow-up, 2021’s Second Place, is a psychodrama about artistic production that sacrifices realistic world making for the starkness of fable.
—Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychodrama
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The show is over-the-top melodrama, but writer and co-creator Taylor Sheridan obviously chose real-life conflicts in Montana and other western states to base the plot on.Ryleigh Nucilli, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
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Schmaltz refers to excessive sentimentality or melodrama and is often used for art, movies, music or storytelling purposes.Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2024
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The Off-Broadway tragicomedy stars Driver as Strings McCrane, a country music icon who finds himself at a crossroads following the death of his mother.Jessica Wang, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
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But in this first-rate production – featuring superb performances from Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati – the play nevertheless emerges as a gripping drama of great wit, absurdity and tragicomedy.The Week UK, theweek, 26 Sep. 2024
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She was recently set to star in and executive produce comedy pilot Phony at Hulu and she’ll also be seen in Prime Video’s Overcompensating.Denise Petski, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
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At the International Emmys, Daily Dose of Sunshine competes in the comedy category with the Australian series Deadloch, the Argentinian series Division Palermo and the French series HPI Season 3.Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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That interpretation reached something of a tipping point with the September 30 death of Creel, one of Broadway’s most popular leading men of musicals and much beloved for his LGBTQ+ activism.Greg Evans, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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Grande, 31, and Erivo, 37, shared an emotional moment while speaking about the new movie musical's friendship-forward themes in a video shared to Australian television series The Project's Instagram page with interviewer Georgie Tunny on Monday, Nov. 4.Tommy McArdle, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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That tragedy impacts the family deeply, especially her brother Joe, who last saw her.Lizz Schumer, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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Because, yes — somehow Peanut’s untimely death has spiraled from a social-media tragedy to a conservative political movement.Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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On tap are stand-up comedy, visual comedy, musical comedy, interactive shows and free outdoor events, with more than 1 million attendees expected over the week-and-a-half span.Dade Hayes, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
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In choosing Tim Platt, who does a lot of musical comedy, for the first album, is that going to be a theme of your label?Frank DiGiacomo, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2024
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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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These interludes seem to mark the shaky dividing line between terror and solace, as George tirelessly makes his way back to his mother.Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
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The backstage interlude evokes both the glamour of movies and the glamour of making movies — how both the product and production in Hollywood is aspirational.Kathryn Vandervalk, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Psychodrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychodrama. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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