The cast did potent work under trying circumstances.
It has also given rise to the most potent work of art that Jonathan Safran Foer has yet produced.
Some cuts should only heighten the impact of what is already an immensely potent work, one that may prove pivotal in the composer's output.
Out of the struggle to fulfill the "strange yearning... for something unobtainable," she has herself created an apparently simple yet potent work of art.
"The Ground Truth" is an emotionally potent work, but the great study of an Iraq vet, in either documentary or fictional form, has yet to be made.
In this tremendously potent work, there are few obvious displays of emotion, yet "Max" is full of imagery that slips between real life and dance in fleeting flashes.
Mr. Macdonald (a superb director of small-scale but potent works by Caryl Churchill and Christopher Shinn) subversively begins his production on a note of anticlimax.
Handily achieving the level of caricature, it turns Rhys (1890-1979) into a weeping, helpless, passive, shivering, fragile creature who, through some miracle of duality, managed to produce mesmerizingly potent work.
** Yet Lamming's criticism isn't entirely valid, either: Naipaul _is fundamentally a West Indian novelist, and the region is the scene of some of his most potent work.
But without a Chopin opera to stage, Dvořák's potent work, which plunges gamely into the ancient intra-Slavic conflict between Catholic Poland and Orthodox Russia which flared up after the death of the tsar Boris Godunov, makes a fine substitute.
