Word: surrealism
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Emmy Award-winning comedian and actor Eddie Izzard is in the midst of the largest tour his career has seen yet. His cleverly surreal humor is likely to make “Sexie” a show to rival the success of his HBO one-man show “Dress to Kill,” while his side project-appearance on Broadway’s “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg” has earned him a Tony Award nomination. Runs through October 25. 8:00 p.m. $40-$60. Shubert Theatre, 246 Tremont...
...movie actor Gina Gershon strode onto the upstairs stage at the Middle East music club in Central Square. Gershon is the iconic star of cult classics like the lesbian-themed gangster-film parody Bound, directed by brothers Andy and Larry Wachowski, and John Woo’s surreal thriller Face/Off. Tuesday’s was the second-to-last performance in Gershon’s nine-city tour with the band Boys Against Girls to promote her new film Prey for Rock & Roll, which opens...
...perplex people from outside South Africa, because the word apartheid is never uttered in his novels, and the settings are not necessarily South African. In 1980, when Coetzee's masterpiece Waiting for the Barbarians was published, I was in the U.S., living among people who took it as a surreal cowboy story set on some nameless frontier and wondered what all the fuss was about. For me, and for many white South Africans, it was an unbearably painful allegory about our daily lives and moral dilemmas, a book that engaged on a psychic level so deep and compelling that reading...
...years ago, has no intention of ever picking up a drawing pencil again. This is the first time in months he has seen his downtown Seattle office, which his business-manager wife and assistant use to filter the paperwork needed to pump out Far Side greeting cards. Larson, whose surreal, pothead-meets-scientist take on humans' overestimation of their species made cartoons cool, prefers his nondrawing, noncelebrated existence. "Life is good," he says, sitting at a wooden conference table, holding an antique specimen jar of chattering-teeth hand puppets, momentarily optimistic before reverting to his trademark deadpan form. "I probably...
...perplex people from outside South Africa, because the word apartheid is never uttered in his novels, and the settings are not necessarily South African. In 1980, when Coetzee's masterpiece Waiting for the Barbarians was published, I was in the U.S., living among people who took it as a surreal cowboy story set on some nameless frontier. For me, and for many white South Africans, it was an unbearably painful allegory about our daily lives and moral dilemmas, engaging us on a psychic level so deep and compelling that reading it left one dazed and hypnotized. In my judgement, Barbarians...