They share a narrative arc, and what most Western theatergoers would consider an inconsistent theatrical tone.

A prelude of "All the world's a stage," later fully expounded in its proper place in the text, sets the highly theatrical, deliberately modest tone.

Guided by the speaker's slightly theatrical tone of voice, I recognised that the utterance was a less than literal interpretation of a thought.

Caitlin smiled slightly at the other woman's deliberately theatrical tone.

"Come, now," she said in theatrical tones.

"That's true," the yeoman responded in the same theatrical tone of voice.

"I fear you have the advantage of us," he added, adopt- ing a broad theatrical tone, suitable to his pose.

The theatrical tone usually meant Rama was up to something.

His voice lost its usual pompous, theatrical tone and fell into the rhythm of the storyteller, dreamy and possessed.

Add to this its somewhat theatrical tone.