In a production given a gleaming "unmoored to the real world" look by John Arnone, its talkiness crisply paced under the polished direction of David Esbjornson (both are significant players in the creation of Lyman's glib and godless head game), the play, replete with flashbacks and fantasies, takes the form of Lyman's ardent explanation of himself to his disbelieving families.
Frequently in danger of being just another urban fantasy, replete with the usual cast of vampires, demons and faeries, Dark Vision is a sassy and often very funny fantasy romp, lifted above the mass by the wit of protagonist Lily and her best friend, the fabulously ballsy Carmel.
No such concerns come even remotely to mind in "Revels," a carnival fantasy replete with rites we need not analyze to feel their mystery.
And then came an outpouring of interplanetary, gender-bending sexual fantasies, replete with both erotica and anxiety.
Alluding to New Yorkers' apparent obliviousness to bag ladies, Insley makes plain that while he himself may be without morals, his fantasy is replete with them as well as with ironic wit.
The first time I visited, the hot new attractions were the Luxor, an immense onyx pyramid, and Treasure Island, a pirate fantasy world replete with lifesize galleons bobbing outside it.
Initially, Chihiro travels past the abandoned fairground, a symbol for Japan's burst economic bubble, and her parents' gluttony and transformation into pigs, to reach the fantasy world replete with Japanese culture and fable in the amalgam of the bathhouse.
We are hurled, with a rude but fitting lack of ceremony, into a smorgasbord of R-rated horror and fantasy conventions, replete with weird detours into Arthurian legend, Mayan mythology and Slavic folklore, and rendered in the director's preferred visual idiom of disemboweled corpses and beautifully art-directed entrails.
The accompanying Hannah Lux Davis-directed music video is a pink-hued fantasy-scape, replete with an all-girl house party that drips with diamonds, fur and Japanese hidden messages.
Catios have made inroads in the suburbs, where they range from small, practical structures — like a box made of wood and chicken wire — to all-out fantasy cat playgrounds, replete with tunnels and scratching posts.
