They said, 'You think that European theater is high theater.
The team turns out food with high efficiency and high theater from the restaurant's open galley kitchen.
As high theater, even the most exciting political campaign has nothing on a bare-knuckled labor negotiation.
At Hartford Stage, Mr. Albee's musings on monogamy, mortality, evolution, anthropology, civilization and all that, are transformed from pretentious twaddle into high theater.
Like Surrealism, work by Ms. Minter mines the fetishistic charge of the anatomical fragment, and turns gender-scrambling eroticism into high theater (Cotter).
(You're giggling already, right?) The play opened to nearly unanimous raves at the Royal National Theater in London last November and later won a 2004 Olivier Award, Britain's highest theater prize, for best play.
Practically speaking, it is an extraordinary fusion of stylistic contradictions that somehow transform melodramatic excesses and lowdown sight gags into high theater art, suddenly finding new meanings in the oldest clichés and outlandish puns.
More than anything, though, it is their interest in turning gender-scrambling eroticism into high theater that puts them out there on some edge or other, with Mr. Melee way, way out and Ms. Minter not quite so far out.
(The actress won an Olivier Award -- Britain's highest theater honor -- for "The Audience" in 2013).
The production won seven Olivier Awards, Britain's highest theater honor, including the prize for best play.
