But through Stephen Rea's riveting portrayal of Eric, a complex study of paranoia emerges.
"It can be misused by just about everybody, because it's a complex study of a complex system".
Instead of the stock contrast between an effete monarch and a burly pragmatist, we get a complex study of parallel figures both doomed to kingship.
Among other things, "Since Otar Left" is a complex study of women from three generations co-existing uneasily under the same roof.
Among other things, "Since Otar Left" is a complex study of women from three generations coexisting uneasily under the same roof.
It's also a complex study of good and evil, innocence and betrayal, with the strength and power of the best of E T A Hoffmann's tales.
The whole production, obviously but unrewardingly, is a complex study of disconnection.
Yet even when stripped of sculptures and whitewashed, these buildings retained subtle traces of their Catholic past, making Utrecht a complex study in cultural archaeology, one that Saenredam couldn't resist.
Instead of one of his five full-length quartets, the Zehetmair ensemble offered his "Fragment No. 1" (1994), a delicate, texturally complex study that lasts all of four minutes.
To watch Ms. Graf's gently despairing approaches to and withdrawals from the needle is to see a complex study in a particular personality and in the lure of addictions.
Hiller's J.Street Project is a deeply complex study: one keeps coming back to what has disappeared, and what lingers, not just of a missing diaspora, but also historical attitudes to the presence of Jews in Germany over centuries.
