lays foundation (verb) establish: set up, organize
Sinonime: affected,
amateur,
artificial, campy, ceremonious, comic, dramaturgic,
exaggerated, ham, hammy, histrionic,
legitimate, mannered, melodramatic,
meretricious, operatic,
ostentatious,
pompous, schmaltzy,
show,
showy, staged, stilted,
superficial, theatric, thespian, tragic,
unnatural,
unreal, vaudeville
Antonime: comedic,
real, undramatic, untheatrical