Word: absurdist
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...celebrities in their own rights, the actors adopt a pseudo-satirical style and give exaggerated performances, making no effort whatsoever to transcend their type-casting. This two-dimensional approach, however, helps Kelly create not only a send-up of today’s modern political scene but also an absurdist parody of the entire surrealist genre.In “Southland Tales,” the Marxist underground movement is controlled by SNL-type aging hippie-feminists who wear loose-fitting clothes, carry Tazers, and do lots of drugs. The entire American voting system and all forms of media are centralized...
...Cosgrove was a lovably naïve Thomas. He frolicked about making full use of the absurdist set (designed by Todd Weekley), often slamming and whirling its four doors, all with different heights and configurations of knobs and mounted in stark white and green walls. Although he was dressed in a red onesie, and spoke often of an imaginary princess, Cosgrove’s childishness was never overwrought. And as he frantically paced the stage, his tie flapping, patient Jon (Michael R. Wolfe ’09) successfully encapsulated the caricature of a businessman, a stumbling sycophant, and a poignant...
...that juxtaposes politics and bathroom humor. In drama, this divisive subject matter must be carefully presented in order to provoke laughter instead of offense. The script, written by Chicago artists Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis, and its production by the Adams House Drama Society manage this feat with an absurdist mix of bald honesty and self-deprecating asides...
...spectacle of Tom Stoppard hoofing it through the theater district on a bum foot would be disconcerting to people who think of the playwright as something of an litist. Ever since his sensational stage debut in 1967 with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead--his absurdist riff on a pair of minor characters in Hamlet--Stoppard has become almost a genre unto himself, taking intellectual, often abstruse subject matter and turning it into challenging yet playful drama. His game, frequently, is the oddball juxtaposition: moral philosophy and gymnastics (Jumpers); Fermat's last theorem and Byron's love poetry (Arcadia); James...
...Pudding, has now been transformed into a rehearsal area. During the renovation, HPT moved its performances to the Zero Arrow Theatre. The Hasty Pudding Social Club, which relocated to 2 Garden Street during construction, will remain at its current location. The theater’s first performance, an absurdist drama written by Arthur L. Kopit ’59, will open on the new stage in November. The Silk Road Project, featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76, will also perform in the space later that month. HPT’s annual show will return this spring...