Because there is hardly a conflict, crisis or contemporary reverberation that cannot be perceived in "Ghosts," not excluding the handy modern appellation dysfunctional family, it is up to the director to cut through the objectivity of dry text and come up with the lucidity and passion of theater.
In adapting the play, John Logan (who worked on Gladiator and Scorsese's Howard Hughes biography, The Aviator) has sharply cut the text, removing the obscurer passages but retaining its lucidity and eloquence and providing a sharp, graphic narrative.
A contradictory and off-putting figure, she is best understood through her own words, which have a lucidity that Mr. Maalouf's heightened second-person text, an apostrophe to Weil from an imaginary sister interwoven with quotations from Weil herself, largely obscures.
Whereas so many settings of these Latin texts are thick with contrapuntal writing and expressively severe, Rameau's have a refreshing lucidity and lightness, the essence of French refinement.
He argued that the text must come first, and that the director, designer and actors must serve it with clarity, lucidity, realism and grace.
"He conveyed the beauty of and the craft behind the poetry with such precision, lucidity and wit that I could hardly wait to go back over the texts in light of what I had learned," said senior Elizabeth Valvano.
As stilted as the Elizabethan English of Donne, or Victorian oratorio texts, or opera in English can sound, Mr. Finley knows how to savor the language with a lucidity that never turns purple.
Drawing from theorist Roland Barthes's text The Death of an Author, Lady Gaga reads like a text, which does not rely on deep meaning or lucidity.
Lucidity fuels excitement.
There is more loft than lucidity.
The ease, the grace, the lucidity.
