Word: worldness
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...Look more closely, and strange themes begin to emerge: anthropomorphic shapes, images of violence and renewal, all come together in a series of intricately-articulated symbolic forms. All orders and variety are thrown together, but the composition is far from careless. Vu, has created her own, hard-to-catagorize, world...
...evident from the introspective nature of her paintings, Vu’s relationship with art is an intense expression of deeply felt, personal emotion. As she says, “A painting is everything in your world, deposited in that work: everything you think, believe, and know. Or don’t know.” Yet Vu’s work is not inaccessible. Instead, it almost teases the viewer, speaking on many different levels. Vu describes her own work best: “I suppose I don’t make conversation, but whisper secrets to myself...
...tumultuous, sleepless night: “The first dawn crows / sound like humans imitating crows, / but hungrier than crows, or more afraid. / The rising light gilds / then slashes red the fallow fields.” Throughout “Wait,” Williams consistently reveals perceptions of the world unique to his own alert senses. In “Teachers,” the poet imagines a schoolroom at night, after both students and teachers have returned home: “Come dusk, the classrooms emptied, / the book shut tight, those forsaken treasures / of knowledge must batter the fading...
...Despite being interrupted with a few sound-system hiccups, this production’s technical realization of the show is subtle, but deliberate and creative. From the booming voice of the giantess to the smoke that appears alongside the spells of the Witch, the production effectively establishes the magical world of the woods without distracting from the vocal work and acting of the remarkable cast...
...prepare you for the world,” the Witch laments as the kingdom falls apart and the characters become more and more lost in their wanderings through the woods. But while the lives of the characters deteriorate, the cast’s performance only becomes stronger. They adeptly relate how their characters come to terms with a world where innocence, once lost, cannot be retrieved; where powers that are given up cannot be restored; and where there is no “happily ever after”—but, at least, there is some semblance of reality...