"I'm so sick and tired of theatrical moments in real life," he says at one point.
Yet this strange perspective also positions the viewer as part of the fictional audience, caught up in the theatrical moment.
It's pretty obvious that puppets are having a bit of a theatrical moment.
The year's most theatrical moment occurred in the World Series opener.
In the fifth game, Jordan had a 38-point performance while wobbling with the flu - one of his most theatrical moments.
You couldn't have a wonderfully theatrical moment like that with a computer-generated image.
Like many arresting theatrical moments, this one was achieved with great effort.
It all makes for a chillingly brilliant theatrical moment.
Still, the director said, his mission has had more to do with finding strong theatrical moments than with chronicling facts.
There is one extremely theatrical moment, a scenic effect, that appears near the end as a kind of vision of peace.
