Under R. J. Tolan's direction, the play offers some taut drama.

And, oh, the taut drama of it all.

The taut drama was directed by Michael Curtiz.

In 1952, he directed "Deadline U.S.A.," a taut drama starring Humphrey Bogart as a reporter.

Ms. Adamson is a master at staging taut, tense drama, and her "Winterset" spits sparks like a lighted fuse.

In this taut drama, the negotiations come to an unexpected conclusion.

But what results is a taut drama that builds in tension, sexual and otherwise, and has enough surprises in the last five minutes to make the most seasoned noir fan gasp.

His music is characterized by its taut and often disturbing drama and carefully calculated, discordant atonal language.

Here is where is this tense, taut drama takes a lurching left-turn into ultra-violence and chaos.

Neither Mr. Wilson nor Ms. Sutton, tall as they are, provide the commanding presence or physical tension required to bring taut drama to their attenuated, repetitive actions.