Word: claustrophobia
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...artistically powerful.The set reinvents the Loeb Ex to bring the complexity of Strindberg to full fruition. “Pelican” is presented in the round, with the audience surrounding the stage—a choice that Dorin explained was an attempt to embody the sense of claustrophobia that pervades the play. Set designer Blasé E. Ur ’07’s skillful handling of that effect successfully engages the audience in a way that Ex shows rarely achieve.One of the most creative set details is the placement of rocking chairs on high pillars around...
...camera-work for “Heart in a Cage,” the second single from the band’s third album, “First Impressions of Earth,” places the band in the midst of a cold New York winter. Conjuring up the claustrophobia and bleakness of Manhattan is a new direction for a band whose earlier videos and songs celebrated the grime and buzz of the city’s nightlife. In “Heart in a Cage,” leather-jacketed singer Julian Casablancas rolls on the gritty surface...
...stages all over America, Fool for Love (1983) was the stark tale of two people locked inside a shared obsession--and a spare anthology of modern theater. The moral claustrophobia of No Exit, the strange sibling bond of The Glass Menagerie, the guilty sustaining secret of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the menacing silences of Harold Pinter all brooded under the skin of Sam Shepard's naturalism. So the film version, which Shepard wrote and stars in, should be an event and not a puzzlement. In "opening up" the play, Robert Altman has dissipated some of its caged...
...little gigi”). They can be quasi-political (“America”). The rookie nature of the album is further evinced by its acoustics; lamentably, you can often hear just how small their recording room was, sometimes to the point of triggering minor aural claustrophobia...
...newfound dance fever forces him to boil down “Forecast Fascist Future,” leaving a heady vocal lament and chugging guitars that amble and reverse but never outstay their welcome. Skipping vocal samples, hysterically-burbling keys, and glitchy drum tracks lend a thrilling dash of claustrophobia to “So Begins Our Alabee” and “The Party’s Crashing Us,” and rubbery synth slouches make the surreal travel diary of “Oslo in the Summertime” ominous and dirty instead of precious...