Rape has become normalised – and is only one, dramatic, dimension of a far wider violence taking place throughout the region.
The two stories come together in a way to give dramatic dimension to some of the more esoteric notions that have been bandied about earlier.
This year, the program's fourth, the book is John Steinbeck's "Travels With Charley," and as he has in the last three years, Mr. Houston has concocted a one-man show to add a dramatic dimension to the solitary pastime of reading.
"Wayzata Window" depicts a rectangular, wood-framed opening in a house designed by the post-modern architect Frank Gehry, but the rectangles' transformation into diamond shapes lacks any narrative or dramatic dimension.
Reviewing the performance in The New York Times, Allan Kozinn wrote, "Mr. Logan's music -- a volatile mixture of angularity, harmonic haziness and expressive dissonance tempered with openly tonal sections -- adds a palpable dramatic dimension to the narrative".
His lyrics bring his music to another dramatic dimension, and his new material -- songs like "Promised Land" (about the death of a lover), "I Love You and You and You" ("skin makes me uncertain if love is what we feel") and "Fate," inspired by Anne Frank, ("Fate is my guardian angel, and she lives in a false floor") -- sound as powerful as anything he's written.
She had been nervous about taking up the challenge, but during rehearsals, encouraged by the conductor, Claudio Abbado, and the director, Lev Dodin, she discovered a whole new dramatic dimension to her voice: a gleaming, unforced sound that could slice through Strauss's thick orchestra but retain its lyric hues and elegance.
The Los Angeles Master Chorale, which was placed on a long platform behind the orchestra, added a further irreplaceable dramatic dimension.
Developing such a game has its challenges as well, because we want this dramatic dimension without forcing the player to do anything.
