Initially light-hearted scenarios are subverted with violent, tragic or sinister events, with 1940s muzak adding an extra surreal layer.
Maybe it's the added surreal layer that this time, I'm flying around between seven far-flung cities in the world's largest Muslim country talking about the importance of more Indonesian women starting companies.
Another surreal layer to the flag's narrative is the Native American experience during the war.
This of course adds yet another surreal layer to the story, by allowing the media vultures to breathlessly claim that the "normally cool Obama is on the defensive" against a tempest that they themselves created.
Mrs Egeus, for example (Hermia's mother, whose husband would rather see his daughter dead than disobedient), takes on the burning topics of forced marriage and honour killing.The play's darkness and surreal layers make it a natural choice for an experiment in what Mr Uglow calls the "anarchic, multi-dimensional, multi-authored storytelling" of the web.
Stanton Moore, on drums, sometimes triggered prerecorded drum patterns, then placed staggered rhythms against them to create surreal layers of syncopation.
To this dour emotional core and documentary-like presentation, she adds elements of the fantastic and surreal, layers of shifting narrative voices and structural devices like repetition.
His collection of 14 looks, suggestive of a surreal Renaissance court -- sculptured layers of this and that and Stella Tennant's right breast poking through a rude porthole -- was certainly skillful in its execution, but his purpose remains in a vacuum.
"This was a surreal feeling.
It was a surreal experience.
