Word: absurdist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Rees moved to Brooklyn in 2000, where he continued drawing and trying to sell homemade compilations of his strips. He still writes updates for both original comics to this day, and he has added a new, religiously-themed absurdist cartoon called “Adventures of Confessions of Saint Augustine Bear” about a bison, a bear, and a hunter obsessed with killing them...
...Committee on College Life (CCL) approved 11 new student organizations yesterday morning, including the Harvard Celtic Club, the Harvard College Southern Society and the Goose, “an absurdist publication dedicated to bringing humor to the Harvard community in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, Donald Barthelme, and Joseph Heller, among others...
Playwright Friederich Dürrenmatt’s darkly comic tale of love, murder, identity and physics sparkles with absurdist charm thanks in large part to the production’s cast, which is stellar: each and every one. Alan D. Zackheim ’06 is somber and compelling as the solitary physicist-on-a-mission Johann Mobius, and his single-mindedly devoted yet star-crossed love interest Nurse Monika (Erica R. Lipez ’05) transcends the surreal and silly qualities of her character to turn in an occasionally poignant performance...
...Richard, is likewise funny and energetic, and carries his scenes with verve. In lesser, multiple roles, Carla M. Borras ’05, Jeremy R. Steinemann ’08 and Stephen T. Volpe ’07 all draw upon seemingly bottomless reserves of energy to create various absurdist caricatures and to tear about the stage in wonderfully orchestrated sequences of madcap physical humor...
...stage—Zigler’s direction made clear when and where the audience should focus its primary attention. Indeed, those moments when action suddenly stopped to showcase characters’ monologues, some of which were directed to the audience as omniscient asides, or to frame absurdist humor (a song and dance number about hustling) were dramatically effective and seamlessly executed. Much of the credit for this is also due to very competent lighting, particularly notable given Gilead’s rearrangement of the mainstage space such that the permanent lighting booth did not command a view...