Word: overwrought
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Last season Tony Randall brought his National Actors Theater to Broadway with an overwrought version of The Crucible, an unfunny slog through Feydeau's farce A Little Hotel on the Side and a stupefyingly overacted rendition of The Master Builder. At season's end, executive producer Manny Kladitis said, "We know there were problems, but give us a chance. A company has to walk before...
...wanting to deal with reality," saidO'Sullivan. "He was entirely overwrought, but hehas come here on his own and turned himself...
...third opera shows a new direction. It is Prokofiev's little known The Fiery Angel, an overwrought vision of possession and sexual hysteria. A co- production with Covent Garden, it was directed as an arresting theater piece by British experimental director David Freeman. Freeman uses gymnasts as the devils who torment the heroine, having rehearsed them in concentrated, mesmerizing animal movements that quickly steal the spotlight from the singers. Trendy? Possibly. But the production maintains its musical balance as well...
These ultraserious, touchy-feely, namby-pamby pleas for unity are not my style--I've always been abrasive, sarcastic, rhetorically overwrought and damn proud of it. But race relations will be our generation's defining issue. Somehow, the subject does not seem the slightest bit funny to me. And anyone who sat in Sanders Theatre that icy February night would agree...
...raped and murdered. The sleazebag is acquitted on an insanity defense so ludicrous that the mental institution where he is sent lets him go. This is too much for Mom to bear, so she tracks down the guy and shoots him -- then has to stand trial herself. It's overwrought and unbelievable, but watchable because of Mills, who agonizes beautifully, down to her last unkempt strand of hair...