They were in town performing a hip hop crime fable called The City – "imagine Humphrey Bogart meets Jay-Z" runs the blurb.
The Underbelly venue cancelled performances of Incubator Theatre's production The City – a hip hop crime fable – on Wednesday after a demonstration of around 100 outside.
Compare, for example, trisyllabic derivatives such as the words chastity, criminal, fabulous, gradual, gravity, linear, national, ominous, sanity, and tabulate with the simple nouns and adjectives chaste, crime, fable, grade, grave, line, nation, omen, sane, and table.
In the case of Ghosts of Karnak (Titan, £7.99), we get a zesty amalgam of steampunk, alternate history, crime fiction and superhero fable.
With nary a superhero in sight, Vertigo's books range from up-to-date fairy tales ("Fables"), to the dystopian ("Transmetropolitan"), to grit-in-your-mouth crime fiction ("100 Bullets").
However, by the end it makes sense, both in terms of the character she's playing, who is in some sense playing a part herself, and because the story turns out to be in many ways more a fable than crime thriller.
Superficially, "The Infatuations" is a romantic fable inside a crime story, focused on a thirtysomething Madrid single, Maria, who may be a namesake for the author.
A moral fable about greed and comeuppance, crimes and misdemeanors, "Blue Jasmine" begins with a socialite brought low and evolves into a tragedy that becomes far greater than her own.
He offers a book for every predilection: if you like westerns, there's his classic, "Little Big Man"; so too has he written fables of suburban life ("Neighbors"), crime stories ("Meeting Evil"), fantasies, small-town "back-fence" stories of Middle American life, and philosophical allegories ("Killing Time").
After moving through a broad spectrum of forms from social realism to ecological fable, she returned to scenes of crime later with books such as Blackwater.
In observing that "Lear's eager wish to enjoy his daughter's violent professions, whilst the inveterate habits of sovereignty convert the wish into claim and positive right, and an incompliance with it into crime and treason …," Coleridge reminds us that this royal fable is at its core a family tragedy.
