"The Master Builder," Ibsen's mysterious 1893 drama of ambition and erotic obsession, is staged far more rarely than the familiar (and generally less mystic) dramas of his major realist period.
But his staged erotic pictures, suave as they are, are so emptily conventional that you are left without any sense of who he really is and what he truly desires.
She has been won by Agamemnon, his spoil in the war, and when her thrilling, brittle frustration is melted by her realization that their visionary connection unites them, their erotic and beautifully staged embrace, ironically brought about by violence and tragically sealing their doom, is the dramatic climax of the show.
The keenly limned grotesquerie of the bodies is beauty in the regard of an onlooker who has advanced well beyond the stage, in erotic enjoyment, of merely being attracted to them.
Maybe for their next anti-repressive act these fearless sisters will stage an erotic art happening where everyone dresses like Mohammed, fists each other, and then a bunch of hostages have their heads cut off in one of those dusty countries to the right of 'cisco.
"I've always been a little bit wary of staging explicit erotic scenes in the past.
It's an uncharacteristic moment in Gabriella Maione's blatantly erotic, impressively acted and staged production of "Quartett" (but watch out for that torturous last half-hour).
The politics are inseparable from the passions; Oshima dramatizes the conjoined societal pathologies of political and erotic repression while also staging thrillingly choreographed displays of the warriors' martial artistry, the sublimity of their cruelty.
Louvish quotes Bickford to the effect that DeMille showed him a large collection of erotic art and virtually staged orgies for his male guests with willing actresses and call girls.
Circular theater stages in erotic dance clubs allow patrons to move around and marvel at living sculpture, much as museumgoers observe a statue and just as countless faces look up at the promenading new Miss America.
