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...THEATRICAL PIECE, be it the oddest surreal composition or three hours of unstinting realism, must be the visible facet of a complete coherent reality lurking without the borders of the play. It must make sense, even if it is a sense never before seen. The job of the dramatist is to create a new world, or a new version of the world we know, and to put it in the same room with a paying audience...
...trade paperback, according to Publishers Weekly. His sketches adorn T shirts, mugs, calendars and greeting cards. His creatures may not be as ubiquitous as Garfield or Snoopy, but then, Larson began selling his work only ten years ago. Says he of his rapid success: "It's all sort of surreal...
...passing, as related by South Korean transcripts of the loudspeaker announcements, had an almost surreal quality. Normally used to broadcast mind- numbing Communist propaganda across the DMZ, the loudspeakers reportedly came alive just after noon on Sunday with somber music. Forty minutes later, with ! no explanation, an announcer began reciting the North Korean leader's lifetime accomplishments, including his World War II service in the Soviet army. After another six hours the announcer began hinting -- opaquely, to say the least -- that Kim's career was finally at an end: "Our leader Kim Il Sung flows in the river...
This is the mood in Solaris, Mirror and the other sanctuaries erected over the past quarter-century by Andrei Tarkovsky. The pleasures these films admit are rarefied: the meticulous placing of actors and objects in a frame, the charged and stately grace of a camera movement, the surreal images from someone else's dream. Yet you should also feel the spectacular unity of vision and visuals, of passion and method. Compared with The Sacrifice's art, the formal sophistication of even the best Hollywood movies seems superficially applied, like press-on nails and a styling...
...INNOVATE or not to innovate? 'Tis it nobler to experiment with the basic texts of English theater or to remain faithful to the immortal words of the Bard? Lisa Freinkel's production of Macbeth answers these questions with resounding indecision. Actors in odd costumes stride about on a modishly surreal set, but the performance never takes us anywhere we haven't been before...