Word: absurdist
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Thus begins the main event, a one-act play by the character Leah that offers an absurdist, fractured reinterpretation of her own past, present, and future. “The show will reinforce theater as a locus where reality and dream meet. In that realm, absurd talk is the wisest decision,” claims the synopsis. The play, which ran from March 25 to 27 in the Loeb Experimental Theater, takes that mission statement to heart...
Written by Sonia C. Coman ’11, the play is an absurdist drama that follows the life of Leah, the Old Testament character and first wife of Jacob, who lives life haunted by the possibility of being just average. Over the course of the show she struggles with her destiny by reliving important moments in her life. As she reflects on her past, Leah meets old versions of herself and watches them make the decisions that have brought her to where...
...left to live - a period in which he wrote torrentially, hoping to leave a financial cushion for his widow-to-be. The glib novel is crazed with misanthropy, full of disloyal wives, derelict drunks, sexual assaults and riots - glimmers of what would come in the amoral, absurdist misadventures of Alex and his droogs in Clockwork. (See the Top 10 Fiction Books...
...Carolina comedians Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal, say they have a camera and plenty of ideas - they just need a business to film. They've produced six spots so far, for establishments ranging from a cosmetology school to a Cuban gynecologist turned car salesman. (Really.) The results are predictably absurdist, and local businesses have proved more than happy to play along - several hundred have nominated themselves for a spot...
...collectively, they showcase much of what makes Chicago theater so distinct and vital. The City of Big Shoulders produces big-shouldered theater as well--thematically ambitious, emotionally juiced, socially impassioned. It's a contrast to the hothouse quality of so much current New York theater: wispy memory plays, absurdist satires, Manhattan-centric relationship dramas, many written by gay playwrights on gay themes. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But there's a big country out there, and right now the freshest breezes onstage are blowing in from the Windy City...