Max Webster directs a tumble-turning production that finds enough breathing space to express the zero-gravity heart-swell of love through aerial routines and cloudbursts of feathers.
Singing "A Love Like Ours," a song first popularized by Barbra Streisand, Ms. Carroll emphasized the gravity of the phrase, "When love like ours arrives/We guard it with our lives," whose words (by Alan and Marilyn Bergman) are not to be taken lightly.
The stylised images suit the simplicity and gravity of a grim story of love, sacrifice and survival in the face of adult indifference and cruelty.
The song deepens and echoes the emotional arc of "Call Me by Your Name," which recounts the intoxication of love and the gravity of heartbreak, how it obliterates everything: How much sorrow can I take?
Metaphors play a large role in this novel, and as the title indicates, Jerry's love of flying becomes a symbol of his detachment from reality, his belief in the consolations of "motion and transit," and his craving to escape the bounds of gravity and all the hobbling entanglements of love and commitment.
After witnessing a child fall to his death during a comet sighting on an island in the South China Sea, two astronomers try to shake off the pull of gravity in a love affair.
The law of gravity is like "love" to the Beatles: it's all you need.
Drawings in the first set look like they were cooked up by a trained architect who had no concept of gravity and loved colors.
The installation has the theatrical punch of a re-enacted disaster, but also the elegiac gravity of a tribute to a loved one, infused with the complicated feeling usually reserved for human subjects.
Some jazz and blues singers project the idea of love as an unfathomable and irresistible force: like gravity, say, or the weather.
