There may be some thematic point to this disjunctiveness, but here it registers as amateurishly stilted.
Yet there is a thematic point to all this showing off, or to most of it, anyway.
Gratification, when it comes, is surrounded by guilt and bitterness; consumption is anxious; sex mostly seems like a vehicle for some highly determined thematic point.
There is a serious thematic point being made by the director Anne Bogart and her ensemble, over and over again, with no room for miscommunication.
It was the Manzoni, with its dreamscape text and its kaleidoscopic use of instrumental and vocal timbres, that clarified the thematic point of the concert, which was an exploration of the mercurial imagination.
Each scene makes its emotional and thematic point carefully, and builds into a solid, absorbing, conventional story, by which I mean that while there are twists and reversals in the plot, nothing really comes as a surprise.
Even the brevity of her appearances, often at arm's length, seemingly in a world of her own, makes a thematic point, underlining the subordination of the child that is at the heart of the tragedy: we don't know what to do with her.
The relationship lies also in structure – in the way Beethoven cast aside the four movements of his earlier quartets for a more arbitrary sequence of movements that expressed his intentions better: sudden fragmentary scherzos that are followed by extended noodling adagios that take heavenly time to come to their thematic point.
The main thing this biennial has going for it, though, is a thematic point of view which has to do, in ways hilarious and sad, with American culture and spiritual history, from the Transcendentalist 19th century to the psychedelic 60's to the standing-here-wondering now.
The main thing this Biennial has going for it, though, is a thematic point of view that has to do, in ways hilarious and sad, with American culture and spiritual history, from the Transcendentalist 19th century to the psychedelic 60's to the standing-here-wondering now.
We provide a more thematic point of view, and we are based in Europe.
