"Il Trovatore" overcomes its absurdities, though, with its vitality, its irresistible melodies and tightly driven rhythms.
Despite his overbearing image, Evans has an acute sense of his own absurdity – and though his self-belief rarely wavers, he never slips into pomposity or self-pity.
Much absurdity ensues, though in the Two River production, directed by Mr. Rechnitz, the pacing is too sluggish to impart the full effect -- it's the humor of a "Seinfeld" episode without that ensemble's crisp timing.
The sensory deprivation of travelling among a shipment of avocados carries a Beckettian strain of absurdity; but though Ensler withholds details of where the woman is travelling to or from, the situation feels disturbingly universal.
To do so is to acknowledge a certain absurdity to existence: though reason and value have a foothold in the world (they are not, after all, my arbitrary invention), they nevertheless lack any ultimate foundation.
Not here, though, where absurdity rules.
In essence, though, this absurdity is at the heart of being a parent: we will do whatever it takes to make the world a better place for our children.
We have moved beyond ritual outrage at Britain's underachievement at the Championships, even though the absurdity of Laura Robson being elevated to the status of national treasure suggests la-la land is still situated in London SW19.
The absurdity of this failure (though it apparently won't affect the re-activation) makes me think that maybe the LHC really is so abhorrent to nature that the universe is contriving to snuff it out.
As though absurdity could further degrade intrinsic evil, however, torture as practiced by the CIA didn't work at all.
