Their answer is a list, a direct evocation of place that reads like a modernist poem: tide pools, redwood forests, monarch butterflies, mustard fields, wild blackberries, beekeepers and "The Rainbow Goblins," an extravagantly illustrated 1970s fairy tale about seven imps who prowl the countryside and devour the colors of the rainbow.
The score, for a small cast and a chamber ensemble, is beautifully wrought, with richly expressive vocal writing, colorful instrumental interludes (including one staged as a zombie dance) and affecting allusions to Bach chorales and Mahler's "Lied von der Erde," and less direct evocations of Brahms songs and the pre-war German theater style most closely associated with Weill.
A Survivor from Warsaw is both more disciplined and more imaginative, the flecks of woodwind, splinters of tuned percussion and accelerating snare-drum unsettlingly direct in Schoenberg's evocation of the ghetto.
Considering that much of NON's work deals both with direct samples and sonic evocations of living in a police state, it's not surprising to see that Amobi and Valerio were drawn to the track with its prominent alarm sample.
PREPARING to direct "Creditors," Strindberg's bruising evocation of betrayal, hurt and revenge, the actor and director Alan Rickman turned to advice he was given when he played a heartsick suitor in Ang Lee's film version of "Sense and Sensibility" years ago.
But this isn't directing, and it isn't evocation, either; it's more like flinging a loosely pasted scrapbook onto the floor and asking the audience to sort it out.
"Bullies": The musical "Dear Evan Hansen," directed by Michael Greif, is a profound evocation of how the need to belong can be as ugly as the need to exclude.
Students were required to demonstrate insight in the application of key principles of MI (i.e., evocation, collaboration, supporting autonomy, directing and empathy, and asking open-ended questions), to facilitate the person's ownership of process goals.
So what we do, here in 2017, whether consciously or not, is skirt around direct dissection aiming instead for a kind of evocation.
Moira Buffini's Welcome to Thebes, directed with panache by Richard Eyre, was a spirited evocation of politics in the developing world recast in the distorted mythology of Antigone, Creon, Polyneices, and even Tiresias, performed by a large, mostly Anglo-African company in the shadow of a deteriorating palace.
Directed by Jeremy Herrin, "Spur of the Moment" is a raw evocation of how fraught and hopeless life appears through the eyes of puberty.
