Michelle Federer, as Elphaba's wheelchair-bound sister, embodies a clunky psychological subtext with surprising grace.
More than thirty years later, the play, refurbished by Esbjornson with a coherent psychological subtext, seems clearly more than metaphysical hokum.
For "Be My Husband," a song whose psychological subtext made it a priority for Ms. Ndegeocello, she used the rustic young folk singer Valerie June.
Much of the humor is, therefore, lost in the translation, and an absence of psychological subtext and an abundance of exposition make this old theatrical war-horse fiendishly hard to play.
Again there is a lot of psychological subtext to this image but initially it stirred in me a feeling akin to standing up too quickly.
Its staid piano-and-strings arrangements are heavily draped around Ms. Boyle's sweet voice, which treats every number as a stolid hymn without psychological subtext.
"The Singing Detective," Dennis Potter's 1986 mini-series, is the kind of television production that justifies the existence of the medium -- a gloomy, episodic swirl of old pop music, film noir and psychological subtext that rewards repeated viewing.
It wasn't the gore of the bloodied tutus, but the psychological subtext.
If you're interested in the characters' psychological subtext, such as it is, pay close attention to these creatures.
Like Freud, Mr. Grosz is fond of literary allusions, and he's nimble at excavating the psychological subtext of literary classics.
In this folderol, there is no psychological subtext for the actors to impart; the nature of the characters that sense of willful self-inflation that makes the women sidesplitting foils for each other is inherent in the breathing it takes to make Mamet's lines play.
