The author keeps the war's context shadowy, giving Dinesh's plight an existential force.
He's presenting the symphonic works of Brahms in tandem with those of the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski, whose dates – 1882-1937 – are necessary to place this shadowy figure's music in the context in which it should be heard.
* "THE EMPEROR JONES". The particular triumph of Elizabeth LeCompte's interpretation for the Wooster Group is its ability to relocate Eugene O'Neill's bruising play in a contemporary context, while holding on to the shadowy, hypnotic qualities that first unsettled audiences of the 1920's.
* "THE EMPEROR JONES". The particular triumph of Elizabeth LeCompte's interpretation for the Wooster Group is its ability to relocate Eugene O'Neill's bruising play in a contemporary context while holding on to the shadowy, hypnotic qualities that first unsettled audiences of the 1920's.
At the same time, Harding's difficult back story (her mother and her ex-husband, that shadowy Jeff Gillooly, appear to have been abusive) offer some mitigating context.
Grandage's production, with its shadowy tango-dancers and high-stepping military, also evokes the sinister context to the Perons' political rule.
"These myths exist as significant, threatening shadowy presences behind the poem, relating to its own civil war context," Nigel Smith comments in his headnote to the work.
Erdoğan set Sunday's bombing, the second in Ankara in two months, in his preferred narrative context: as part of a life-or-death national struggle against shadowy forces bent on victimising and destroying Turkey.
BBC2's thriller about John Simm investigating a shadowy cabal of bodysnatching immortals launched a month ago with a double bill that ladled context-free violence over breadcrumbs of plot.
Benedict XVI is enjoying, from some, a warm and generous farewell as he vacates the papal throne for a quieter life behind the walls of the Vatican, but the context of his resignation -- the first by a pope in roughly 600 years -- is shadowy and cold.
