MELODRAMA

[noun] - a play or style of acting in which the characters show strong emotions and behave in a more noticeable way than real people usually doI think you'd call the play a melodrama - it's full of unrequited love, unhappy deaths and unrelenting parents. [C]The film is pure melodrama. [U](esp. UK) The car's hardly damaged - there's no need to make a melodrama out of it (= make the situation more important than it is). [C]