Word: surreal
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...play “O O O The Rodeo Show!”—plays on these ideas. “It is an allegory for America but also an actual rodeo show that takes 13 years to perform.” The script was so surreal, he says, that one of his thesis readers called it a novel rather than a play. “It has old men humping cars and flag burning, but also a Disney sensibility,” he says. At the end of the play, he gives instructions to the audience...
...With an evocative, surreal set by Grace C. Laubacher ’09 and an incredibly complex program of sounds by Josh R. Stein ’09, the show flows and breathes like nothing else I’ve seen at Harvard. It’s sort of a technical miracle, actually. I was told the cast rehearsed six hours a day to make this kind of seamlessness possible. Who knows if that’s fact or exaggeration? It was worth the effort, in any case...
...place. It is almost as though Lotte falls into a rabbit-hole, only to emerge in a wreckage of smoke and mirrors. The reality of the play is disorienting, and solid ground exists only in the characters’ personal sufferings. The eerie presence of dolls furthers this surreal effect. The play flirts shamelessly with the line between doll and human, one that it figures as flexible and thin. Lotte, for example, treats her doll “patients” as though they are real people, and Andromache’s beloved “son?...
...nattily dressed father of three, British science-fiction and international "cult author" J.G. Ballard was the picture of suburban propriety. But the orderliness of his personal life allowed him to create a surreal, visionary fiction that was often frankly pathological...
...profile defense lawyer to drop Blagojevich since the saga began. Gillespie's partner, renowned Chicago criminal defender Ed Genson, left the case in late January after becoming frustrated that Blagojevich wouldn't heed his advice to stop giving interviews. Before he gave up the case, Genson complained that the surreal atmosphere at Blagojevich's impeachment trial had become like Alice in Wonderland. Federal prosecutors just have to hope it doesn't get any stranger...