A famously hard-to-categorize artist, Mr. Gordon continues to make delightfully absurd works of dance-theater, with the elegant Ms. Setterfield as his performer and muse.
She's not even a latter-day Lara Croft, who, however absurd, works on screen because of Ms. Jolie's own outsize persona.
The goal was to make absurd, experimental work, often with found material.
I understand those who feel that Deutschland 83 has teetered too far into the absurd to work as a serious drama, but I also felt that this week addressed many of those issues, giving us some good character development into the bargain.
However absurd his works might appear to be, he understands the place of the artist, recognising that his work exists in a global world of social, cultural and economic relations.
Alfie is an absurd figure, working out in the gym, popping Viagra pills and behaving as if he is a young buck about town.
"FAIRY TALES OF THE ABSURD," with works by Eugène Ionesco and Edward Einhorn, by the Untitled Theater Company No. 61 at Theater 80, 80 St. Mark's Place, East Village.
