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Recent Examples of tragicomedy
The longtime friends put their chemistry to good use in the latest revival of Samuel Beckett's tragicomedy.
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Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
Its jacket copy states, With a voice somewhere between Violeta Parra and Bad Bunny, Paulina Flores paints a portrait of a city, a generation, and its distinctive characteristics in this tragicomedy.
—Diana Arterian
july 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
Told with a classic heist structure and hints of tragicomedy, the story follows an ordinary government employee obsessed with winning the Melate lottery.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 23 July 2025
Erotic Lives of the Superheroes, a cancer tragicomedy, killer women, and more were among the show pitches presented during the Industry Days program of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Tuesday.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tragicomedy
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Rudd's latest project, the comedy Anaconda, which costars Jack Black, is now in theaters.—
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Jade Catta-Preta Jade Catta-Preta pivoted from a career in theater to a career in comedy.—
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Demon Slayer, the first of a series-ending film trilogy, is a master class in hyper-kinetic, violent battles and high-stakes melodrama, in which a sequence of epic duels is intercut with emotional character backstories.—
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Dabis embraces the conventions of melodrama with sombre grace.—
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Reactions to this tragedy from friends on social media align completely with their political persuasions.—
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Thirasak Wongsoongnern, a member of staff on the train, told local media outlet Thairath Online, that the train had been traveling at around 74mph when the tragedy occurred, according to the BBC.—
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How that psychodrama played out in the UK could have lessons for the US — not least because Cummings eventually succeeded in undermining Johnson’s political career, ultimately defenestrating the prime minister through relentless briefings and leaks.—
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And there are many things that people can actually do to get this transcendence, to get away from the tedium of the psychodrama of your own life.—
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Accordingly, the film is a historical musical.—
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The show comes to Broadway as the season has a slim number of new musicals, which could all be vying for the Tony for best musical.—
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Jim Parsons will return to Broadway in the upcoming musical comedy Titanique, producers announced today, with other new cast members including Deborah Cox, Frankie Grande and the show’s co-creator Constantine Rousouli.—
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Three Months Later, a new musical comedy about survival and art, will play a three-day engagement in Los Angeles starring Kristen Bell and Lea Thompson.—
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The dramedy, also starring Odessa A’zion, Gwyneth Paltrow and Tyler, The Creator, surpassed the previous record-holder — Alex Garland’s 2024 thriller Civil War — in just less than two weeks.—
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Production on the Western dramedy starring Ethan Hawke will begin in Tulsa this spring.—
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At the end of mountain stages, a delicious monodrama always unfolds.—
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The monodrama by Suzie Miller and directed by Justin Martin propels Comer stunningly into the tale of a crackerjack barrister who prides herself on getting offenders off.—
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“Tragicomedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tragicomedy. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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