One integral theme running through Trajal Harrell's programming for his current Platform series, "certain difficulties, certain joy," has to do with pleasure — or with works that flutter ever so lightly around the idea that play doesn't have to veer into stupidity.
The Number 11 of the title recurs throughout, and refers also to the fact that this is Coe's 11th novel, but while the Chancellor's residence has a part to play in the plot, it feels more tricksy motif than integral theme and, ultimately, this take on the moral bankruptcy of modern Britain is let down by being too obvious, both in its targets and in their subsequent takedown.
When asked whether he arranges his works for concert performance, he says that his choice of instruments is integral to the themes he writes, so they are the same live as when you hear them on film: "When Beethoven wrote a symphony, that was that," he says.
In Mankiewicz's original conception, in the long first-draft "American," which ran three hundred and twenty-five pages, that device is more clearly integral to the theme.
In one episode the water will be integral to the theme of a design challenge, when fashion designers will be taken to a pastoral setting and challenged with reflecting elements of the natural environment in their designs.
(ref. 25, p.35) Integral to this theme was the acknowledgement of the complexity of patients' lives.
So they are not integral to the larger themes and to the conclusion of the story.
These overlapping themes are integral to Sun Mu's art and his identity.
It travels well, stands the test of time, and celebrates roots and routes and the 'Hullness' that is integral to the quirky theme of our original bid document".
It said it wants to keep the theme as an "integral part" of its social care work in the coming weeks and months.
