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dryly humorous 57 finely wrought 57 rivetingly 57 naturalistic 56 poeticism 56 unabashedly sentimental 56 parodic 56 limns 56 plangent 56 Feydeau 56 opera buffa 56 humor pathos 56 wry witty 56 deadpan comic 56 self reflexivity 56 Odets 56 overdetermined 56 naturalism 56 dramaturgical 56 unbearable poignancy 56 elegiac 56 Nabokovian 56 cartoonishness 56 Ayckbourn 56 Uncle Vanya 56 mise en scène 56 wholly believable 56 Pelevin 56 stagy 55 epigrammatic 55 ruminative 55 Diego Arciniegas 55 Ranevskaya 55 Shakespearean 55 avoids sentimentality 55 beautifully wrought 55 sardonic 55 Schubertian 55 drollness 55 hamminess 55 broodingly 55 dialogue crackles 55 tragi comic 55 grippingly 55 elegaic 55 melodramatic 55 Durang 55 subtextual 55 Grand Guignol 55 Chaplinesque 55 didacticism 55 Herzogian 55 naturalistically 55 divertimento 55 Oblomov 55 comedic undertones 55 amour fou 55 engrossingly 55 picaresque 54 finely etched 54 Gentleman Caller 54 Lasdun 54 impassivity 54 jokiness 54 Absurdist 54 literalized 54 blackly humorous 54 mawkish 54 proto feminist 54 farceur 54 moroseness 54 thoroughly engrossing 54 Ruders 54 psychologically astute 54 ghoulishness 54 Maugham 54 playwright Anton Chekhov 54 Hitchcockian 54 Chandleresque 54 Krapp Last Tape 54 Guare 54 lyrical passages 54 Ginkas 54 Felliniesque 54 bathetic 54 engagingly 54 mordant wit 54 screwball farce 54 Moliére 54 languor 54 whimsicality 54 ironic detachment 54 Panych 54 wry 54 wry humor 54 Dostoyevskian 54 mournfulness 54 Paata Tsikurishvili 54 tautly constructed 54 evocation 54 descriptive prose 54 Pelléas 54 sumptuousness 54 wonderfully eccentric 54 Jean Anouilh 54 sardonic humor 54 noir ish 53 ludic 53 Foucheux 53 roundelay 53 inwardness 53 Astrov 53 Dostoevsky novel 53 Beethovenian 53 mawkishness 53 actorly 53 unashamedly sentimental 53 Ionesco 53 mismatched lovers 53 opera seria 53 discursive 53 invigoratingly 53 metafictional 53 Bieito 53 utterly captivating 53 Ravel La Valse 53 self lacerating 53 arioso 53 triteness 53 elegant prose 53 threnody 53 somnambulistic 53 avant gardism 53 mordant 53 Haruf 53 finely nuanced 53 Rosenkavalier 53 veddy British 53 Tolstoyan 53 plotless 53 Jacobean revenge 53 documentarylike 53 metafiction 53 Gothic horror 53 Goethe Faust 53 abjection 53 delicately wrought 53 directorial flourishes 53 self dramatizing 53 unbearably sad 53 ruefulness 53 interiority 53 lingeringly 53 easeful 53 neurasthenic 53 plaintiveness 53 Wozzeck 53 stagebound 53 Stoppard 53 Maeterlinck 53 fin de siecle 53 viscerally thrilling 53 sardonically funny 53 poetic sensibility 53 soloistic 53 improvisatory 53 veers wildly 53 misanthropy 53 Jean Giraudoux 53 Cinematically 53 contemporary resonances 53 Swiftian 53 Captain Vere 53 Handelian 53 screamingly funny 53 Arkadina 53 tragicomic 52 Verdian 52 Pynkoski 52 philosophical musing 52 Frayn 52 tenebrous 52 Lubitsch 52 Falstaffian 52 Conradian 52 uncanniness 52 Janácek 52 minute intermissionless 52 subtly nuanced 52 impishness 52 stylization 52 recitatives 52 essayistic 52 whimsy 52 uninvolving 52 wry understated 52 drollery 52 Allegro vivace 52 Shakespearean proportions 52 Lynchian 52 melodrama 52 affectless 52 Hogarthian 52 existential anguish 52 operatic 52 Georges Feydeau 52 maudlin sentimentality 52 imagistic 52 unself conscious 52 doubleness 52 droll deadpan 52 dramaturgy 52 terrifically funny 52 dramatist 52 theatrical artifice 52 painterly 52 concision 52 antiheroic 52 exquisitely wrought 52 tragi comedy 52 musicalized 52 po mo 52 theatricalized 52 Rostand 52 stylisation 52 surrealism 52 suavity 52 lyrical prose 52 self reflexive 52 existential loneliness 52 incantatory 52 rueful 52 unengaging 52 commedia 52 intermissionless 52 Menuetto 52 Eda Holmes 52 sarabande 52 poetics 52 gorgeously sung 52 archaism 52 Equivocation 52 absurdist comedy 52 Python esque 52 Anna Mackmin 52 darkly comedic 52 digressive 52 Polish Joke 52 noirish 52 Elizabeth Meriwether 52 aphoristic 52 belabors 52 Shakespearean verse 52 Ellingtonian 52 Eugene Onegin 52 Petrouchka 52 Niall Buggy 52 affectingly 52 bathos 52 melancholia 52 subtlety 52 Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 52 Borgesian 52 transportive 52 achingly lovely 52 lumpish 52 Angelica Torn 52 talky 52 wistful melancholy 52 lush romanticism 52 Jonathan Munby 51 poetic monologues 51 veers dangerously close 51 languorous 51 quasi operatic 51 fading Southern belle 51 Shakesperean 51 vividly captures 51 Håfström 51 descriptive passages 51 Wordsworthian 51 sheer musicality 51 Moliere comedy 51 authorial voice 51 wordless 51 psychological acuity 51 cherishable 51 Faulknerian 51 Myfanwy Piper 51 knowingness 51 dissonant harmonies 51 beguiling 51 meta fictional 51 Hesione 51 autobiographically 51 filmic 51 Golaud 51 deftly woven 51 sardonic wit 51 corniness 51 Kepesh 51 acerbity 51 Byronic 51 pointillistic 51 melodiousness 51 grows tiresome 51 Cotard 51 Apollonian 51 Four Quartets 51 sweetly sentimental 51 hardboiled detective 51 Joycean 51 songlike 51 aleatory 51 Bachian 51 epistolary 51 sly wit 51 homeliness 51 slyness 51 ripping yarn 51 subtly shaded 51 Vindice 51 deftly captures 51 winsomeness 51 deliriously funny 51 gigue 51 unsentimentally 51 suffuses 51 artifice 51 comically absurd 51 mimesis 51 Nuccia Focile 51 impressionistic 51 utterly believable 51 Anton Chekhov 51 Ibsen Ghosts 51 Shakespearian 51 Proustian 51 Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme 51 Germont 51 longueur 51 uncontrived 51 inarticulacy 51 Thiérrée 51 Indhu Rubasingham 51 Professor Bhaer 51 Edith Sitwell 51 Euripides Medea 51 Madame Ranevskaya 51 deliberateness 51 larky 51 David Grindley 51 limned 51 Francesca da Rimini 51 Lopakhin 51 Giraudoux 51 everydayness 51 rhapsodic 51 expressionistic 51 Breillat 51 melodramatics 51 Ronald Firbank 51 contrives 51 fussily 51 Dostoevsky 51 Cavalleria rusticana 51 leavens 51 Grand Manner 51 intricately layered 51 utterly charming 51 le Carré 51 fleetly 51 playgoer 51 Batuman 51 Moderato 51 Mirandolina 51 sparseness 51 supernatural overtones 51 timeless fable 51 Sonnambula 51 objective correlative 51 Le Carré 51 unadorned prose 51 Tresnjak 51 florid 51 Eumenides 51 Schnittke 51 genuine pathos 51 quiddity 51 Raskolnikov 51 Resnais 51 blackly 51 teacherly 51 magic realism 51 folkish 51 cloyingly sentimental 51 diegetic 51 Wellesian 51 self deprecatory 51 freneticism 51 magical realist 51 SN Behrman 51 Mrs. Givings 51 ponderousness 51 Pythonesque 51 darkly ironic 51 Pirandello 51 nature morte 51 Leos Janácek 51 formlessness 51 pastiche 51 Jocasta 51 linear narrative 51 lyrical sensibility 51 mirthful 50 contemplative 50 Anton Chekov 50 knockabout comedy 50 verite 50 solitariness 50 Noël Coward 50 declamatory 50 Belvaux 50 lachrymose 50 dolorous 50 fitfully amusing 50 artificiality 50 screwball comedy 50 lyricism 50 quasi autobiographical 50 Toby Belch 50 bitingly funny 50 neo Romantic 50 Brangäne 50 Machinal 50 urbane wit 50 Blanche du Bois 50 Dark Elegies 50 LaBute 50 oneiric 50 richly layered 50 Der Ferne Klang 50 Anderszewski 50 Sorcha Cusack 50 ineffably sad 50 Kurtág 50 swooningly 50 Charles Condomine 50 nocturnes 50 dystopian sci fi 50 Friar Laurence 50 tragicomedy 50 Director Julian Jarrold 50 Noel Coward comedy 50 Jacobean tragedy 50 Andrei Serban 50 discomfiting 50 revelatory 50 maudlin 50 contrapuntal 50 Dostoevski 50 playlets 50 Pelléas et Mélisande 50 picaresque novel 50 lush orchestral 50 Catherine Corsini 50 Benoît Poelvoorde 50 suspenseful thriller 50 Tesman 50 chromatic harmonies 50 Miss Haversham 50 Lover Discourse 50 Shakespearean tragedies 50 winningly 50 Orpheus myth 50 plainness 50 Lisztian 50 Artaud 50 dancerly 50 shticky 50 evocative imagery 50 Dans Paris 50 brassiness 50 Lamorisse 50 songful 50 nouveau roman 50 jarring juxtapositions 50 Ozu 50 readerly 50 antiheroine 50 sensualist 50 exquisitely rendered 50 Hofmannsthal 50 tragedians 50 girlishness 50 Siegfried Idyll 50 lugubriousness 50 intermittently amusing 50 vaudevillian 50 intertextual 50 off puttingly 50 Gremin 50 achingly funny 50 wry asides 50 Groag 50 Rodion Shchedrin 50 Allegro moderato 50 absorbingly 50 philosophising 50 Tom Nelis 50 darkly comical 50 Paddy Cunneen 50 neorealist 50 actressy 50 Brontë sisters 50 gothic horror 50 bravura 50 literary pretensions 50 darkly humorous 50 wickedly witty 50 bewitchment 50 Ms. Ananiashvili 50 Elgar Enigma Variations 50 finely shaded 50 longueurs 50 Turgenev 50 hyperrealism 50 wistfulness 50 Ted van Griethuysen 50 phantasmagoric 50 delicately nuanced 50 precise diction 50 operatic masterpiece 50 Melancholy Dane 50 Ms. Dessay 50 dottiness 50 allegorical 50 treasurable 50 Buñuel 50 Tarantino esque 50 saturnine 50 Kristine Nielsen 50 Dercourt 50 Max Beerbohm 50 Lucinda Coxon 50 emotional heft 50 Altmanesque 50 quotidian 50 Oresteia 50 offhandedness 50 Sea Interludes 50 Hagar Shipley 50 darkly poetic 50 Ravel Mother Goose 50 playwright 50 coloristic 50 unaffectedly 50 youthful ardor 50 Emily Brontë 50 terseness 50 stark realism 50 illuminative 50 Harmonielehre 50 unerring ear 50 Ophuls 50 surrealistic 50 hokeyness 50 Dybbuk 50 darker moodier 50 Hitchcockian suspense 50 didactic 50 beguilingly 50 Orphée 50 Cusk 50 oedipal 50 Plainsong 50 wonderfully readable 50 utterly beguiling 50 Schreker 50 rebarbative 50 vividly evoked 50 aestheticized 50 expressionist 50 aching loneliness 50 Pyramus 50 Viennese operetta 50 darkly atmospheric 50 hokiness 49 preachiness 49 Brahmsian 49 carnality 49 Anita Brookner 49 character arcs 49 clunky exposition 49 ambivalences 49 unheroic 49 deadpan wit 49 sketchily drawn 49 darkly satirical 49 Jenufa 49 visually ravishing 49 monodrama 49 rhyming verse 49 melodramatic flourishes 49 Andrew Bovell 49 Lady Marchmain 49 Pickwick Papers 49 Sophocles Oedipus Rex 49 unbearably poignant 49 Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya 49 Toby Frow 49 uproarious 49 Sir Toby Belch 49 duologue 49 evocative prose 49 Khrzhanovsky 49 Fandorin 49 sentimentalizing 49 neo classicism 49 stageplay 49 verisimilitude 49 faux naif 49 Hollywoodish 49 felicities 49 Twilight Zone ish 49 La Moustache 49 existentialist 49 Ellen Geer 49 Humbert Humbert 49 enthrallingly 49 Ballardian 49 Godardian 49 Molière 49 Queen Mab 49 aperçu 49 academicism 49 poignancy 49 deadpan 49 Moira Buffini 49 Fratres 49 unreliable narrator 49 da capo arias 49 mordantly funny 49 existential dread 49 bitingly witty 49 Strindberg 49 Monsieur Jourdain 49 self parodic 49 limning 49 slyer 49 wearyingly 49 aching tenderness 49 deathless 49 slightness 49 allusiveness 49 agreeably 49 profundity 49 Maev Beaty 49 pianistic 49 campiness 49 prose stylist 49 artful 49 Pam MacKinnon 49 con brio 49 surreal dreamlike 49 Erwartung 49 tonal shifts 49 prose 49 Claggart 49 superciliousness 49 knockabout farce 49 verismo opera 49 uproarious comedy 49 Monty Python esque 49 Otherwise Engaged 49 wryly humorous 49 movement cadenza 49 Così fan tutte 49 Victorianism 49 Mark Harelik 49 metaphysical 49 Jayne Houdyshell 49 Jessold 49 intricately plotted 49 Ms. Dinnerstein 49 caricatural 49 donnish 49 playlet 49 commedia dell'arte 49 sublimity 49 Le Plaisir 49 breakneck pacing 49 Fuente Ovejuna 49 protags 49 ballet Pulcinella 49 Laura Odeh 49 unvaried 49 morose 49 ineffable sadness 49 Lady Capulet 49 unquiet 49 subtle gradations 49 campness 49 postmodern 49 sly humor 49 ennui 49 hyperarticulate 49 howlingly funny 49 darker undercurrents 49 daftness 49 Weimar cabaret 49 Lutoslawski 49 baroquely 49 gritty realism 49 monumentality 49 Immolation Scene 49 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre 49 unexpected juxtapositions 49 Walküre 49 intertitles 49 Three Viewings 49 ardency 49 Cranko 49 mordantly 49 Martin Crimp 49 lushly romantic 49 Cocteau 49 Fionnula Flanagan 49 screwball romantic comedy 49 Seana McKenna 49 Bourgeois Gentleman 49 satirical wit 49 solipsist 49 narrative coherence 49 arrestingly 49 Baricco 49 uncinematic 49 coloratura passages 49 exhilaratingly 49 Kathryn Meisle 49 Elizabethan Age 49 Topdog 49 Andantino 49 Cookbook Collector 49 dreamlike sequences 49 Babluani 49 Giorgio Germont 49 Messud 49 rhythmic interplay 49 demotic 49 Britten opera 49 impeccable phrasing 49 needlessly convoluted 49 Petipa 49 subversively funny 49 cleareyed 49 hieratic 49 Thea Sharrock 49 unrequited romance 49 Shakespearean comedies 49 Stuhlbarg 49 screwball romance 49 Homeric epic 49 grimness 49 Blakean 49 Marianna Bassham 49 Samuel Beckett 49 symbolist 49 Barnaby Rudge 49 Chéreau 49 Jacobean drama 49 Begaudeau 49 haphazardness 49 Serrand 49 Amenábar 49 Onegin 49 Oedipus Rex 49 unflinching realism 49 beguiles 49 chiaroscuro 49 grotesquerie 49 dryly witty 49 Harlem Duet 49 passacaglia 49 Sokurov 49 poesy 49 An Infinite Ache 49 earthily 49 David Harrower 49 evocative 49 Terrence Rattigan 49 nervily 49 Zenlike 49 Bildungsroman 49 richly satisfying 49 chromaticism 49 wistful 49 Goldengrove 49 indeterminacy 49 Beethoven Op 49 entrancingly 49 McMoon 49 humorlessness 49 brooding 49 illusionism 49 Sganarelle 49 Doctor Faustus 49 picaresque tale 49 expository dialogue 49 breeziness 49 sentimentality 49 solipsistic 49 attraction repulsion 49 exquisitely nuanced 49 suitably creepy 49 Ibsen Hedda Gabler 49 Alan Ayckbourn 49 inexpressive 49 Flaubert Madame Bovary 49 earthy sensuality 49 bittersweetness 49 Prince Myshkin 48 transfigures 48 Leonid Desyatnikov 48 Vitellia 48 rhymed verse 48 de Bernières 48 dramma giocoso 48 dreamlike 48 curiously detached 48 Dan Istrate 48 unworldliness 48 dreaminess 48 verismo 48 Hemingwayesque 48 Thisbe 48 shamelessly manipulative 48 talkiness 48 Communicating Doors 48 Mrs. Dalloway 48 intricately structured 48 Cold Souls 48 chronological narrative 48 Juliet Rylance 48 unabashedly romantic 48 unmannered 48 mawkish sentimentality 48 JoAnne Akalaitis 48 prefigures 48 facetiousness 48 Daniel Deronda 48 rhythmic vitality 48 idiomatic 48 coup de foudre 48 textural clarity 48 Ivan Turgenev 48 tweeness 48 Mussorgsky 48 thinly sketched 48 pulpier 48 overfamiliarity 48 Barrie Kosky 48 Compositionally 48 Bryggman 48 Alcestis 48 Arthur Przybyszewski 48 Kore eda 48 Euripedes 48 orotund 48 acidulous 48 witty 48 wistful longing 48 Marcel Pagnol 48 madcap hilarity 48 fetishistic 48 Elegiac 48 Garry Essendine 48 deliciously wicked 48 Faustus 48 Sigarev 48 clichd 48 Suffused 48 grotesqueness 48 richly atmospheric 48 Doinel 48 Therese Raquin 48 Dashwood sisters 48 side splittingly funny 48 Ranyevskaya 48 purgatorial 48 slapstick farce 48 Estragon 48 Alexander Ostrovsky 48 rom com clichés 48 unremittingly bleak 48 hymnlike 48 ironist 48 Declan Donnellan 48 woodenness 48 heart rendingly 48 Almereyda 48 Afterplay 48 Burleske 48 Vertov 48 unintentionally comical 48 Appassionata 48 unshowy 48 La Valse 48 darkling 48 lightheartedness 48 Irma Vep 48 idiosyncratic 48 unbearably tense 48 Ionesco Rhinoceros 48 Elyot 48 Monkish 48 operatically 48 Tóibín 48 emotional catharsis 48 Yuan Yuan Tan 48 Amelia Bullmore 48 jagged rhythms 48 Orlandersmith 48 Michael Siberry 48 multicharacter 48 franticness 48 philosophical ruminations 48 nonlinear storytelling 48 contrapuntal textures 48 self mythologising 48 languid pacing 48 Len Jenkin 48 visually inventive 48 touchingly