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...characters to become the focus. In contrast, the A.R.T.’s last staging in 1984 incited sharp criticism from Beckett himself over a too liberal interpretation. However, following Beckett’s stage directions in no way diminishes artistic freedom. A play this rich with pointed banter, absurd characters, and meaningful, open-ended questions needs no grand re-interpretation to be as effective and poignant as it is in this production. Perhaps some of the play’s emotional resonance is lost through a weak performance by MacDonald, whose Nell never hits the right note despite...
...Furthermore, Wong’s suggestion that Harvard’s theater is confined to “precedent” and lacks “risk-taking” is absurd. The upcoming season alone displays an incredibly creative range of productions—with many diverse casting opportunities—from an original multimedia, movement-based production about love and atomic physics to a new interpretation of an ancient Greek feminist comedy. And, while I disagree with Wong’s idealization of gender-blind and race-blind casting as a kind of theatrical cure...
...Gaza characters, an ambulance driver called Abu Khalil, "has a broken heart" after losing a colleague in the war. On the other side, the Israeli line producer Avi Abramov wrote on the blog after the production ended that he had been called up for military duty. "This situation is absurd," he wrote. "I've just spent three months working on a project where I felt the door opening? Now this illusion is over." What remains is a fine film and a new way of documenting a place we hear about often, but never really know...
...going on. If you’re counting, between them that makes 3 Academy Awards, 7 Academy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, and 94 Grammy nominations, all colluding on this one fateful night on the dance floor. Ultimately, this video is awesome for one simple reason: the number of absurd moments resulting from this eclectic procession of famous people: Ron Howard is in a club raising his glass to a bunch of drunk people not named Michael, George, or George Michael. T-Pain does some kind of cheesy dance move I am certain he first witnessed...
Having gained popularity through their absurd live shows—which usually involve severe inebriation, prevalent nudity, osculation between band members, and nearly every bodily fluid imaginable—it’s not surprising that the Black Lips might find it difficult to convey that same intensity on a studio album. On the band’s latest release, “200 Million Thousand,” they try desperately to be as defiant and rebellious as ever, but what emerges is a stale form of the eccentric garage punk they’ve produced in the past...