"The same kind of slapstick and the same kind of silliness and visual puns and the same kind of things they laughed at then we laugh at now," said Ms. Demarest, the playwright in residence for Plaza Theatrical Productions in Oceanside.
This kind of cerebral and visual imagination makes a Hussein Chalayan fashion movie an ideal way of transmitting the designer's thoughts and feelings in a poetic, but practical, way.
Still, in the second act, when the taxi-driver arrives and begins the narrative of Moss's manic last hours, the play hits a satisfying stride... Shepard's work is a kind of verbal and visual jazz, which surprises you with its penetrating leaps of association and its startling voices.
And it felt like we had to take it there to make it have meaning, because otherwise it would be a superficial, preachy kind of song and visual".
They are the tallest flying birds in the world and have complicated and beautiful behaviors — they dance and duet and have all kinds of vocal and visual languages in ways that seem to be human-like.
The organization is splendidly run in every sense, but the size of the theater changes the impact of the operas given, encourages almost single-handedly a new kind of power singing and visual gigantism, and excludes smaller voices that make effective Tristans or Isoldes in Vienna and Bayreuth but that here are lost in space.
For it, the Montreal-based artist offered a one-of-a-kind electrifying sound, light and visual experience that used her LED-powered spinning tops and her "turntabilism" skills to generate abstract and deconstructive, hip-hop-influenced electronic music (Read: Watch Four Glowing Tops Spin Music).
The kind of visual and political integration that Wilson was proposing is still rare in the largely white avant-garde.
They do, however, put major restrictions on the amount and kind of visual spectacle that can be provided for a performance, because scenery more than a few feet tall will block the views the audience members have of the action taking place onstage.
