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Defying oblivion are some big subjects, including memorials to victims of Auschwitz and Hiroshima; and Motion continues his vein of war poetry, giving voice to service personnel past and present.
It featured nine short plays, each hovering over lives tangled up with the impending calamity, full of people blurting things out in case it's all over, or clinging to routines (shopping, lorry deliveries, arguing) as if to defy oblivion.
Bergman, like Uncle Carl in "In the Presence of a Clown," is capering with the absurd: defying death in his art and watching oblivion loom ever closer in his life.
Newspapers that defy these trends, he said, risk "sleepwalking into oblivion".
As with Mr. Dodin's production of "Uncle Vanya," seen at the same theater in 2010, the performances here often rise to an anguished intensity that defies the stereotype of Chekhov's characters as meek sufferers shrugging their way into oblivion, watching in quiet resignation as their chances for happiness recede.
The odds favored oblivion.
Purification and oblivion.
This feels like oblivion.
