dramatis personae

Compounding the uneasiness, the ensemble introduces the dramatis personae in strokes that can seem unnecessarily broad.

The toxic male may be on the run in America, but as dramatis personae he remains a close-to-indispensable spice.

The war that ensues between her and the rest of the dramatis personae might then have given the second act higher and sharper stakes.

A new prologue, by the Israeli author Sivan Ben Yishai, is little more than an extended read-through of the dramatis personae.

The dramatis personae include a gaggle of ghosts, who begin to appear to our hero soon after “the kiss of questionable judgment.”