Sentences with phrase «dramatic monologues»
A "dramatic monologue" is a type of speech in a play or poem where a character expresses their thoughts and feelings directly to the audience or another character. It is usually emotional and intense, and reveals the character's perspective or story. Full definition
In dramatic monologues that are personal, poetic, and immediate, several angry, desperate teens in an inner - city neighborhood tell their stories as they search for home and family.
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Turning songs into vocalized dramatic monologues misses the point.
Jessica Chastain learned the lines of her powerful dramatic monologue on the plane coming from L.A. yesterday.
In key scenes (Sahmi's meeting with the General, the montage sequence showing Houshang's attempts to raise money using repetitive framing devices, and several of Parviz's key scenes, which often function like dramatic monologues) the performances appear often to be slightly stylized and theatrical, offering, I believe, a degree of distanciation (in the Brechtian sense), somewhat in the manner of, say, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
He's remains completely restrained (even when demonstrating Karate to an amazed Nixon), avoiding all temptations to veer into stereotypes, and even has two showcase dramatic monologues that provide an emotional kick.
Though they don't have a lot of dramatic monologues or real emotional journeys, every cast member gets a few good quips or moments to shine.
Wonderfully sad, and a great resource for showing our students dramatic monologues and other things they should know about how theater works.»
Unusually for a racing game Need for Speed: Rivals attempts to create a backstory for its action, each chapter heralding an overly dramatic monologue that details the continuing war between the racers and police force.
Hailed as «the faultless painter» by his pupil Giorgio Vasari, d'Agnolo was also celebrated in a splendid dramatic monologue by Robert Browning that keys on the sense of his effortless perfection, the sprezzatura of the virtuoso.
They also had a wide range of genres to choose from: epic, drama, pastoral, satire, dramatic monologue, epistle, lyric — along with a wide range of poetic forms, meters, and stanzas to shape their music.
«Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,» wrote Robert Browning, in his dramatic monologue Andrea del Sarto, «or what's a heaven for?»
She is completely fascinating in her first scene, performing a dramatic monologue about immigration while standing inside a corporate grocery store, and just as curious in the next, silently mashing her face into a pile of cheese curls while filming herself with an iPhone.
It's all action and dramatic monologue - ing, all the time.
Martin's story (written for the stage) is much more elaborate, a dramatic monologue delivered by a teenaged baton twirler who desperately wants the audience to admire and envy her but who can not quite stifle her feelings of superiority — racial, athletic and spiritual.
These dramatic monologues are delivered in the voices of some of the drag performers featured in the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning who had been officially recognized as «legendary» by the drag community.
The eclectic films — as well as impromptu dramatic readings, sea shanty singing, poetry readings, dramatic monologues, and blues guitar — would all come to be part of just another night at Sunny's.
It was like a monologue, a dramatic monologue, which is another way of saying a first - person narrative, a first - person novel.