It is quite an epitome of his experience of the domestic melodrama or penny novel.

"The Truth About Blayds" is a domestic melodrama posing as a moral dilemma.

What begins intriguingly as a topical exploration of conscience lapses into domestic melodrama.

Showing an ability to handle diverse topics, Sullivan also wrote screenplays involving domestic melodrama.

At times the approach is more like a domestic melodrama about compulsion and tawdry affairs, perhaps more suitable for daytime television.

But his talent also prospered in a different, though related, genre, the domestic melodrama.

But even here the exploration of 60's foreign tragedy runs up against the hoariest plot twist of 90's domestic melodrama.

And the play cannot always easily accommodate the shifts in tone from obvious domestic melodrama to fanciful surrealism.

"Because he has such a passionate interest in the domestic melodrama, he's perfect for the stage."

As an early domestic melodrama it is not without interest, but this sermonising evening is, frankly, a slog with only fitful rewards along the way.