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Broadway isn't the only place for grand spectacle. At the Treasure Island hotel in Las Vegas, that Mecca of excess, the Montreal troupe Cirque du Soleil has created a gorgeously surreal, thrillingly theatrical pageant. Acrobats mingle with Adam and Eve, spaceship Earth and a giant snail in a fantasy of rebirth. It plays like the fever dream of some millennial impresario. Call him Siegfried Roy Webber...
...times on Wah Wah, the songs achieve coherence despite the best efforts of the band, and the result is hauntingly intense. The second track, "Pressure's On," is one such song: the weirdly hypnotic synthesizer, the surreal, breathy vocals and the only occasionally comprehensible lyrics combine to create a liquid, seductive, trippy sound. A later track, the aptly titled "Rhythmic Dreams," has a similar effect, but relies on a steady jungly drumbeat and mantra-like vocals to give the piece shape and draw in the listener. These and other tracks utilize non-musical noises, like dripping water, crickets, and talking...
...post messages for the public to read. Because of this high level of anonymity (for many users, read: adventure), some newsgroups become harmless forums where shy housewives may live out their fantasies, college kids can plan communist revolutions and strangers are introduced to one another. The cyberspace becomes a surreal, virtual world where characters exist only by the words their creators choose to write. And nothing more...
...final seconds ticked down on the Harvard Stadium scoreboard last Saturday, a surreal melee ensued. Hundreds of seemingly disoriented Harvard students stormed the field to attack their Ivy League counterparts...
...this relationship are conveyed with delicacy and subtlety. Their rapport, especially when they reminisce about their childhood closeness, rings touchingly true, and is especially poignant in a play dedicated to Vogel's own lost bother. But Carl and Anna are neither melodramatic nor cliched. Amid the kaleidoscopic, surreal happenings of Vogel's plot, one never loses a sense of these characters' essential normality and love for each other...