Aiming for more honesty, topicality and inclusion, the pair cast the show before completing its score or script.
"We're looking for more than just topicality," Ms. Feferman said.
Some of this is no more than everyday topicality, writers wallpapering novels set in the present with current events.
Another signature of text collections, which is more telling about topicality, is the distribution of lexical similarity across pairs of documents.
The freshness and the shock of Gide's novel stand undiminished, not only because of the book's eerie topicality but, more strikingly, by virtue of its grand formal design.
If this seems an unpromisingly cliched McGuffin, be assured Stiastny deploys it not to play cat-and-mouse games but to debate the relative merits of secrecy and transparency: Acts of Omission's topicality becomes more pronounced as it progresses.
Yet the freshness and the shock of Gide's novel stand undiminished, not only because of the book's eerie topicality but, more strikingly, by virtue of its grand formal design.
Topicality could be more cryptic than the direct description of current events.
We also found that market activity responded more to news with higher topicality.
