theatricalize

But the production from the director Keenan Tyler Oliphant can’t fully theatricalize a text so weighed down by narration.

It would be easy to overplay or theatricalize Lamb — to turn him into a one-note martinet — but Oldman is so relaxed and natural that he makes the splenetic has-been fully human, and suggests the greater depths of compassion and capability that will be revealed as the story progresses.

Instead of trying to theatricalize its story through finding playable action, The Inheritance tries to solve the problem of adapting a literary work through emphasizing its literariness.

Though all were powerful, they faced a common difficulty: How to theatricalize in one gesture both individual devastation and collective disaster.

And not only to vote but also to theatricalize their public commitment to voting.