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Ben Hania’s insistence on close-up melodramatics — faces in anguish, a handheld camera glued to them — sometimes overshadows a thirst for something more analytical.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

The ride up with Fanny in Act 1 is gleeful, but the climb back down in Act 2, after the shine has worn off the marriage, plunges the show into dreary melodramatics.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022

Over 12 minutes of Wagnerian melodramatics, he repeated that guarantee no less that 30 times - but fans have long been confused about what it was he wouldn't do.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2022

Brazile’s melodramatics cast a purposeful haze over a few important details.

From Slate • Nov. 7, 2017

“Now that is the most theatrical display of melodramatics I have ever seen in my life.”

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling