Word: absurdist
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...point where all I could think about was just writing the damn thing. I wanted to explore avant garde theater and dance...but in the end, I was mostly inspired by the crazy process of making the play itself. I saw that the whole enterprise of meta, avant garde, absurdist art is pretty funny, I think, and so is having an actor in an bunny costume. The inspiration for that came from the fact that I like bunnies...
...just this," Guest says, pointing to the piano pushed off to the side and the single support column in the middle of the room. Here, he will work with a cast of nine students to develop an original production inspired by absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett...
...Clarkson didn't do it alone; she had help from 10,000 other contestants, as well as from three judges whose commentary and antics pushed the whole program into the realm of absurdist satire. And then there was Justin, as in Justin Guarini, her fellow finalist, who was so ridiculously good-natured that even perennially cheerful Katie Couric seemed befuddled by him; she tried (unsuccessfully) to get a rise out of him when he appeared on the "Today" show Thursday morning. Guarini just sat there, smiling his blindingly white smile, insisting Kelly was the rightful winner...
...Fras mixes collage with silly cartoon characters in a story that takes place during the Polish resistance against the Nazis. Jurcan & Cvek's "Condemned Ideas" examines the failure of ideologies from Fascism to Communism to Capitalism. But the most unifying trait turns out to be a kind of dark, absurdist sensibility. In Goran Feniks' "A Weird Story," a man takes care of some paperwork while plummeting to his death from an airplane explosion. There's ample amounts of satire and schadenfruede, but little humor of the joyful, delightful kind...
...while Anderson and Wilson’s artistic tastes may correspond with each other, their sense of absurdist humor diverges from that of the pedestrian. Their past two feature films were far from mainstream, and have practically achieved cult status. However, both are also quick to avoid describing their work as quirky. Anderson elucidates, “I don’t like quirky at all. Quirky is the thing I want to not be. There’s no point in trying to be weird. But I think people think this [movie] stuff is quirky. [Owen...