Word: absurdist
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...sidestep the "heavy-handed and pretentious" and keep things light, but whether Split Confusion succeeds may depend more on whether Colby has found anything new to say within the well-trodden genre of zany comedies with serious undercurrents. In any case, if its predecessors in the healthy tradition of absurdist drama are any indication, Split Confusion should induce its own share of laughter...
...little over a decade ago he was still on the wrong end of the tear gas and water cannon as a firebrand anti-apartheid leader. The conference's host, Czech president Vaclav Havel may be feeling a little nostalgic, too - after all, back in '68 he was just another Absurdist playwright trying to overthrow the system...
Formatted like a 19th century journal, with dense text and quaint line drawings, McSweeney's (whose print run is now up to 12,000) selects pieces too esoteric, untimely or otherwise uncommercial to make the glossies--experimental fiction, absurdist humor and erudite essays, like a piece on a War of 1812 veteran who believed the earth was hollow and contained habitable worlds within. Like the New Yorker before it became topical and buzz crazy, McSweeney's gives writers the time and space to indulge their interests...
...Durang/Innaurato collaboration: four brothers, tempestuous love, life, death, etc, etc. But it doesn't take long to leave Dostoevsky in the dust as Durang and Innaurato jump full force into the whole of literature since the Book of Genesis. Durang has always been something of the Tom Stoppard of absurdist drama, but in The Idiots Karamazov he outdoes himself. Insert famous femme fatale Anas Nin, lover to the likes of Henry Miller, Gore Vidal and Salvador Dal, a few scenes from Eugene O'Neil's Long Day's Journey into Night, and references to everything from Macbeth to Robert Anderson...
...Neil, and the aforementioned Anas Nin, played with delightfully French self-absorption by Karen MacDonald. Not to mention the entire cast of characters from The Brothers Karamazov, with Alyosha Karamazov (played with effective, i.e. not annoying, wholesomeness by Sean Dugan) serving as Durang's Everyman character in this absurdist romp...