The phrase of the day is chew the scenery:
to act melodramatically; overact (theatrecrafts.com)
"At the urging of the Players' director, he went on to appear in 'Night of January 16th', a melodrama by Ayn Rand in which the text itself chewed the scenery."
- Thomas Mallon, "Wag the dog: The making of Richard Nixon", 4 February 2013 The New Yorker
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