Hoffman's performance simulates a masterwork of artifice that seems all the truer for the perfection of its illusion — and that performance has its greatest impact on the character most deeply subject to his mastery, the wounded war veteran Freddie Quell, played by Joaquin Phoenix.
Lots of misguided yuppies have sacrificed comfort and style for the illusion of reliability and performance.
Proceeding from left to right, the screens move from fact through process to fiction; from the mundane details of makeup, through the elaborate mechanics of staging and lighting, to the intensity and illusion of performance.
If you've never wanted to run away and join the circus, if you have no interest in the arcane skills of tumblers, gimps, magicians, music hall and sideshow folk, if the art and craft and illusions of performance hold no appeal for you – then you probably won't like Funny Bones.
It's a fantastical 19th-century confection about illusion, performance and a deadly rivalry between magicians – rather than acrobats and dogs on bicycles.
At Silencio "Betty's" existence and performance are exposed as beautiful illusions which mask real-life sorrows.
Thirteen percent of all participants never consistently reported hearing the continuity illusion (their performance was either below chance or not significantly different from chance over all noise durations; see Figure 2b and Table S1).
He is attracted to the unreal reality, the false truth, of theatrical performance, and "Snow," in its political aspect, pivots on two nights of performance at the Kars National Theatre, in which illusion and reality are confoundingly entwined.
