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The Utopia trilogy, staged at the National four years ago, was nine hours long and packed with historical figures: it had moments of beauty and brilliant verbal acuity, but it reeked of the lamp; its massive, swirling back-projections looked like a way of injecting theatrical movement into inert passages.
It's left to Alexander Hanson as the dithering Pontius Pilate to inject some theatrical class into the proceedings, although it is Chris Moyles's leering turn as Herod, a game show host in red crushed velvet demanding the audience vote whether this Jesus is a fraud or a lord, which is the surprise success of an unconvincing evening.
The play, called "Happy Days in the Art World," was written by Elmgreen & Dragset, as the duo is known, and will have its premiere at Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in Greenwich Village on Tuesday as Performa's opening-night benefit, injecting an oddly traditional theatrical note into a biennial whose sympathies tend to fall on the performance-art side of performance.
And while those mysterious silences may seem like a theatrical gimmick, they do inject a sense of suspense that in the end pays off gruesomely.
Trump had promised to use his theatrical gift and a dazzling array of speakers to inject some rare pizzazz into the four-day program.
As the first staff photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair, he injected high society into fashion editorials, capturing the nascent sexuality and theatrical manners of the leisure class.
He talked of how hard it was for him to overcome his initial difficulties injecting "the Ailey juice," as Ms. Jamison put it, into the lead role of the already wildly theatrical Béjart ballet, which he will dance this season.
Historical, theatrical".
It is intensely theatrical.
It feels wonderfully theatrical.
As a theatrical work?
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