Watching the fierce clash over the salad course during a dinner party in "Disgraced," the rollicking new play by Ayad Akhtar, feels at times like observing a hotly contested game of Twister.
As a result, attending to the manipulations of the Vicomte de Valmont (Yannik Landrein) and his ex-lover, the Marquise de Merteuil (Julie Moulier), feels a bit like observing a chess game — spanning nearly three hours — that can barely hold the attention of its players, let alone any spectators.
"It feels like J is missing", observes Abz, to which Scott deadpans "That's because he's not here".
You feel like you're observing life rather than watching a movie".
I felt like I was observing the scene and not really acting in it.
Rather than be very stressed about some V.P. who was fighting with another V.P., or one group getting this product or service, I just felt like I was observing and learning and being more clinical about it.
I felt like I was observing new culture just by the language used, dancing, and foreign music played.
… My greatest heightened sense of self and creativity is when I feel like I'm observing the song when it's happening, as opposed to making it.
On his website, Beck released a series of videos in which he unveiled his Disneyland, and when I watched each of them, I felt like I was observing the meandering schemes of a mental patient who impulsively scrawled his manifesto onto the walls of his padded room using his own feces.
The chorus to his signature song (one of several written especially for Mr. Bridges) observes that "falling feels like flying, for a little while".
