He certainly doesn't efface the memory of its creator, Helgi Tomasson, but he helps me understand anew the astonishing twists and suggestions of this ballet, which seem to contradict its own title: there's no "baiser" ("kiss") and no "fée" ("fairy"), and by the end it has very much stopped being a divertimento.
Those who try to bring themselves forth, if they're lucky, find that their new identity doesn't efface the one that was born and raised but merely puts it into new perspectives, provides new angles and new tools to plumb and reveal its hidden depths.
Feroli (2006, 149 50) highlights the fact that Fell's arguments in favour of women's preaching do not efface the significance of the female body.
And, while this production does not efface memories of Howard Davies's 1996 version, it gains enormously from the rooted Americanness of its performers.
But, even if Trevor Nunn's new production does not efface memories of its predecessors, it is a good, well-cast version that gives us Chekhov's concrete particularity.
Even if this production doesn't efface memories of the last Almeida revival, there are sharply observant performances from Michael Elwyn as the manipulative Tory leader, Gerrard McArthur as a silky moralist and Louis Hilyer as a booming pragmatist.
Elements of these scenes are strange, vulgar, even loopy — but they're also transcendently, naïvely heroic, yet in a way that doesn't efface or dissimulate their hero's (and the protagonist's) authentically demotic (not ironically "pop") sensibility.
That it was instead your situation that changed doesn't efface your mutual obligation.
To reductive cradles of Islamic fanaticism, images that satisfied a Western thirst, his counterpoint was portraits of civilizations whose wounds did not efface their poetry.
Occasional sour notes, like the large-nosed Jewish stockbrokers the children encounter in London, might make the contemporary reader wince, but they don't efface Nesbit's evident joy in the stories and peoples of the world.
