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Apart from the riveting power of the cast, this production has visual intensity. The sets themselves are strikingly stylized, from the cavernous English war-chamber to the surreal floating windows of the French court and the palisade of Calais with its cutaway wall. Daniels uses this backdrop to construct tableaux with his characters, freezing the action on the stage in moments of startling clarity. The image of Henry kneeling among the body bags of slain men, or of the two kings sitting in opposite thrones with their men grouped behind them like chesspieces, linger in the mind's eye like...
...people in Nolde's works are lost souls: evil and good, freaks and beauties. The two shows contain a wide representation of his portraits, spanning his entire career. In the watercolors, Nolde's figures acquire a doll-like, clownish appearance which manifests itself in surreal examples of innocence. Nolde's darker lithographs, woodcuts and etchings of "goblins and grotesques," and even humans are a periscope into worlds of fantasy and reality...
...putting to hear Mamet's characteristic cadences used in a domestic drama. To watch a little boy engage in relentlessly stylized repartee with the initially distracting Ed Begly Jr. is surreal indeed...
...help but get the sense that council members are spawned in a culture of backstabbing and almost surreal stupidity. President Liston, in an attempt to qualify himself during campaign, boasted that the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) Guide's average difficulty level of his spring term courses would be 2.1. It seems odd that "I'm not doing any work in class" has become a selling point for public office. Further, the efforts to establish a more direct link to students--like Liston's murder of a small forest and salesman-like visitations to every undergraduate room on campus...
Unless Ferguson becomes overtly disruptive, which he has avoided thus far, it seems that the only way for Belfi to cut short his surreal career at the bar would be to rescind the decision on competence to stand trial, thereby ending the proceedings. That might sit badly with Phillips, her fellow victims and much of the public...