It's sort of in the Kill Bill style, where each fight is a dramatic tableau set in a picturesque location – a rainy street, a factory, a forest glen – that quickly fills with bloody corpses and snapped limbs.
This is but the first of several coup de théâtre including a "helicopter" flying over the audience, aswirl in smoke and spotlights, a buoy bobbing across the stage, and a tragicomic sitting-room tableau set in a submerged room of cockeyed Caligari-esque angles.
The whole tableau, set against an artfully styled modern backdrop, could have been a scene in a romantic comedy — the one about an It girl who ditches her Manhattan bachelorette pad for a wholesome family life in Brooklyn, all without ever losing her passion, her friends or her panache.
If a formula A∧B is on the right column of the main tableau, the set of tableaux splits into two new sets of tableaux: one whose main tableau lists A on its right column and one whose main tableau lists B on the right column.
Elaborate tableaux are set up depicting scenes from Hindu stories and are similar to the nativity scenes that one sees around Christmas.
The residents cavort like spoiled courtiers, and Sade is permitted to stage a sadomasochistic tableau vivant set in a harem and depicting the "joys of captivity".
Auteurist fans were baffled - there didn't seem to be any obvious Egoyan preoccupations in this curious tableau vivant set in an apocryphal Belgian hamlet.
For now, the new employees are on a visit to Tableau's headquarters in Seattle where they are meeting the engineering team and making plans to integrate the HyPer database technology into the Tableau product set.
Women's Wear Daily reports that the shoe designer is teaming up with Crazy Horse, the Parisian cabaret, to create original tableaux (stationary sets) for the nightclub's "Desirs" show.
The second was a series of large-format photographs, shot with a 5x4 camera, "where the actors are not the prominent players on stage but merely part of the wider tableaux of the set," Lathigra said.
