We also had the feeling that at least in Argentine theater in recent years there was a lack of relation with political events; we were very focused on small family issues, so as a challenge we were interested in dealing with our most recent history in a fictional context.
Theater, or at least commercial theater, usually relies less on indirection and more on explication, especially in a play that follows six decades of a monarch's weekly meetings with her prime ministers, from Winston Churchill (a wheezing Edward Fox) to Mr. Cameron.
And at least one theater has decided to flout it.
At least one theater in Connecticut, I recently discovered, refuses to follow the trend.
At least Ballet Theater's production, though often clumsy in construction and relentlessly jolly, is a friendly circus.
Like Mr. Breuning's ape-world extravaganza at Metro Pictures last year, this all makes for amusingly over-the-top and, for a moment at least, gripping theater.
Now in its fourth year, the festival (on the Web at fringenyc.com), will present at least 40 theater shows a day at 20 different venues.
During those years, she has written more than a dozen published plays and has been a winner or finalist in at least nine theater festivals and other competitions.
And another of the songs Most Likely to Be Played at a Wedding, at least for theater fans, is "Sunrise, Sunset," a ballad from the 1964 musical "Fiddler on the Roof".
"I think the future will be a flowering of different kinds of art and different kinds of storytelling," said Mr. Bain, who intends to show "The Quantum Project" in at least one theater to make it eligible for the Academy Awards.
In the United States, at least, dance theater often amounts to mawkish dancing to the choreographer's own low-grade romantic poetry, clichéd movement interpretations of blundering political rants, or performance art studded with feeble moments of affectless gesture.
