TORONTO -- In tough situations, there is an all-too-human tendency to turn up the volume. Having difficulty making yourself understood? Yell! Trying to convince someone of your sincerity? Shout it to the heavens! Determined to make a point? Then make it loudly!

Not surprisingly, this condition finds a corollary in the theatrical world among actors and directors who, in attempting to reflect elements of the human condition, layer on the angst and emotion so heavily that things eventually collapse in upon themselves under the weight of all this earnestness.
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