Thesaurus results for MONODRAMA

monodrama

noun

as in tragicomedy

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Recent Examples of monodrama At the end of mountain stages, a delicious monodrama always unfolds. —

Thomas Curran, Time, 8 Aug. 2023 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 The monodrama by Suzie Miller and directed by Justin Martin propels Comer stunningly into the tale of a crackerjack barrister who prides herself on getting offenders off. —

Peter Marks, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022 Toshio Hosokawa’s monodrama for mezzo-soprano and 12 players, probes deeply into the terror and loss of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem through a jagged, atonal setting that stretches the scansion out of its familiar rhythm. —

Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2022 Based on a monodrama by Jean Cocteau, the 1959 piece delves into the emotional state of Elle (She), whose lover of five years has left her. —

Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2021 Jonathan Berger’s monodrama is based on a U.S. Army helicopter pilot’s first-person account of the 1968 massacre of hundreds of Vietnamese villagers by American troops. —

Matt Cooper, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018 In its heyday, City Opera was a home for Argento’s richly expressive music, and the upcoming performance will include two of his monodramas. —

The New York Times, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017

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In the international competition, Australian stop-motion animator Adam Elliot took home the 50,000 Swedish krona ($4,500) prize for his tragicomedy Memoir of a Snail.

— Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
Feldman’s specific style is hard to explain or neatly label though critics and viewers alike have tried to with terms like dramedy and tragicomedy.

— Dana Feldman, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024